Current Affairs Czech medicine celebrates 40 years since first successful organ transplant

21-09-2006 13:21 | Dita Asiedu

As 24 year-old Karel Pavlik began losing consciousness on the operating table he knew that his chances of survival were slim. Several previous attempts at a kidney transplant had failed and Karel did not expect to become Czechoslovakia's first successful transplant patient. Forty years have passed since Czech surgeons conducted that historic organ transplant.

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