The Familial Living Donor in Renal Transplantation

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Abstract
A survey is made of the 20 yr experience with more than 300 living donors in renal transplantation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston, Massachusetts [USA]. Details are given pertaining to the 1st transplantation of the kidney from 1 living person to another in Dec. 1954. The surgical technique, the complications and the results of renal transplantation from a living donor are summarized. The philosophic and psychologic problems encountered are described. A comparison of results summarized by Murray of living, related donor transplants to cadaveric donor transplants is included. This paper constitutes a salute to the familial living donor.