#transplant

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#bury #devoured #heart #infinitely #than

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. ↗

— Joe Murray

#back #couple #developing #dogs #had

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. ↗

— Joe Murray

#i #more #never #personally #seen

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. ↗

— Joe Murray

#immediately #improvement #kidney #patient #status

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#could #demonstration #dramatic #immediately #improvement

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#another #before #believe #biggest #biggest thing

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#getting #had #hip #i #liver

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#head #heart #him #his #implant

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families