Liver transplantation: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Table 1 History of liver transplantation[13]

Yr	Author	Application
1943	Gibson	Defined the immunologic nature of skin allograft rejection in humans
1955	Welch	First mention of liver transplantation in the literature in a dog study
1960	Medawar	Definition of acquired transplantation tolerance
1960	Starzl	Transplantation in dogs of multiple abdominal viscera
1963	Starzl	World’s first three attempts of liver transplantation in humans with maximum survival of 21 d
1968	Starzl	First long-term survival of four patients after liver transplantation
1978	Calne	Introduction of cyclosporine
1984	Bismuth	Reduced-sized adult liver transplanted into a small child
1987	Raia	First living donor liver transplantation
1988	Pichlmayr	Split one donor liver and two graft were used for two recipients
1988	Kalayoglu	Introduction of University of Wisconsin solution for preservation
1992	Starzl	Baboon to human xenotransplantation