Transplantation Milestones

Milestones in Transplantation : the Story so Far

Milestones in Pancreas Transplantation in Belgium.

Currently, the burden and opportunity for successful pancreas transplantation is regularly based on the experience of the transplant team and mostly surgeons who pioneered that field. Insulin independence in a type 1 diabetic patient was first achieved on December 17, 1966 when William Kelly and Richard Lillehei transplanted a duct – ligated segmental pancreas graft simultaneously with a kidney...

Pathology Milestones

All Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education accredited pathology residency training programs are now required to evaluate residents using the new Pathology Milestones assessment tool. Similar to implementation of the 6 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies a decade ago, there have been challenges in implementation of the new milestones for many residency...

Transplantation milestones. Viewed with one- and two-way paradigms of tolerance.

Milestones of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – From First Human Studies to Current Developments

Since the early beginnings, in the 1950s, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has become an established curative treatment for an increasing number of patients with life-threatening hematological, oncological, hereditary, and immunological diseases. This has become possible due to worldwide efforts of preclinical and clinical research focusing on issues of transplant immunology, redu...