[The enigma of the renal allografts performed in man in the early 1950s]
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1Chef de Service honoraire, Hôpital Erasme.
Revue Medicale De Bruxelles
|December 6, 2006
Abstract:
In the early 1950s, a few renal allografts were performed without immunosuppression in man. The paper describes these attempts and tries to explain the behavior of the medical doctors who undertook these human experimentations taking into account their personality, the knowledge at that time and the absence of treatment for end stage chronic renal failure.
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