Talking Point Czech medical transplantation forty years after first organ transplant
Forty years ago, Czech surgeons conducted their first ever successful organ transplant. Their patient was 24-year old Karel Pavlik, who received a kidney from his mother. The operation was performed at the Prague-based Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, IKEM, by Dr. Vladimir Kocandrle:
Dr Eva Pokorna, photo: www.medicon.cz
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