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The acceleration of knowledge in biological and medical sciences is one of the remarkable features of our times and in particular the development of organ and tissue transplantation has been incredibly rapid ; in the last 30 years we have passed from the first attempts on humans during the 50’ s to multiple organ transplantation including heart, liver, lung and pancreas. There has also been an extraordinary increase in the number of transplants performed so that now 150,000 kidney transplants have been carried out in the last 20 years. In fact every year more than 3,500 transplants are carried out in France alone.
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Traeger, J. (1994). The Crisis of Adolescence in Organ Transplantation. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Rejection and Tolerance. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0802-7_2
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