Transplantation Potpourri: Kidney-Adrenal-Gut-First Lung-First Heart in Man

James D. Hardy

Product Details
Product ID: ACS-1619
Year Produced: 1990
Length: 14 min.


This video conveys to the audience with graphic immediacy the fact that most organs are now readily transplanted in man. It has five sections. The kidney transplant secretes urine spectacularly at once. Adrenal slices to the thigh produce adenomas and recurrent Cushing's syndrome and are removed. Gut transplant is from mother to child after small bowel loss from volvulus. The first lung transplant in man was performed in 1963 and this first heart transplant in man in 1964 (not previously shown at ACS). The canine heart transplant can be removed, if necessary, but it reminds the viewers of the importance of the laboratory in the development of virtually all transplantation techniques. The second human heart transplant convinces the audience.