RT Journal
A1 Blumberg JM
T1 THe perfect match
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD November 23
VO 306
IS 20
SP 2197
OP 2198
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1710
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1710
AB 
The first successful kidney transplant was indeed a perfect match, performed in 1954 by Dr Joseph Murray at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital between identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) did not exist at that time; matching of the twin donor-recipient pair was confirmed when a small donor skin graft from Ronald was not rejected by Richard. And while the surgical principles of kidney transplantation have barely changed since that historic December day, the way in which we match recipients with their eventual donor has become very complicated.