History of Organ Transplantation

“What was unthinkable yesterday and hardly achievable today often becomes routine tomorrow.” This sentence is the concluding sentence of the article titled “The Evolution of Liver Transplantation” in 1982. It is a good word describing the stages of organ transplantation.

The most effective treatment for chronic kidney and liver failure is kidney and liver transplantation. Kidney transplantation raises the standard of living of patients and ensures a comfortable life. Organ transplantation is not foreign to this geography and our country. Do you know that the first organ transplant experiment in the world was made 2,500 years ago in Adana Yumurtalık, as it is today?

At that time, the name of Yumurtalık was 'Hygeia'. Hygeia is the name of the mother of Hippocrates, the founder of medicine, and is used as hygiene today. In time, Hygeia turned into Aegeia and it turned into Ayas, and in the Republican Period, Ayas was changed to Yumurtalık. The fact that some of the ancient coins found in Yumurtalık have a picture of Hygeia and a snake pattern, which is the symbol of Esculap, which is considered the god of health, is accepted as evidence supporting this information.

Two physicians, Cosmo and Damian, performed the first organ transplant in Yumurtalık 2,500 years ago.

In Barcelona Cathedral and many Christian frescoes, there is a depiction of a Negro transplant by attaching his foot to a white person. Cosmo and Damian are depicted with a white halo in these paintings and are elevated to the rank of Saints. The fact that the oldest known medical book (Dioskorides / Materia Medica) was found in Adana Anavarza, the first organ transplant was performed in Adana, in fact, shows how advanced Anatolia and our region were in the field of medicine in the past.

Developments in organ transplant surgery began in the early 1900s with the development of vascular anastomoses in 1906.

Peter Meteawar demonstrated tissue incompatibility in skin transplants in 1944. Dr. Muray performed the first successful kidney transplant in 1954. Thomas Starlz performed the first liver transplant in 1967, and Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. After the discovery of cyclosporine in 1982, there have been great advances in organ transplantation. In our country, the first kidney transplant was performed in 1975, and the first liver transplant was performed by Mehmet Haberal in 1988. Our country is at the same level as other countries in organ transplantation and even advanced in western matters. In addition to kidney, liver, heart and lung, there are 153 organ transplant centers where face, arm and leg transplants are performed.

Successful organ transplant operations were carried out at SANKO University Hospital. As SANKO University Hospital Organ Transplantation Center, that is, transplANTEPSANKO, we aim to increase our success rate in the services we provide in our region in the field of liver and kidney transplantation.

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