TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe perfect match
AU  - Blumberg JM
Y1  - 2011/11/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2011.1710
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2197
EP  - 2198
VL  - 306
IS  - 20
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.1710
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1710
ER  -