Sentences with phrase «try transplant surgery»

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By the time I graduated from medical school, heart transplant surgery had become conventional, so I moved to Los Angeles and did something I've never told anyone else about: I spent a couple of years rolling pennies and eating canned spinach and pasta while I tried to understand the universe, an effort I felt had reached a dead end.

He developed new techniques for transplant surgery, helped to make kidney transplantation viable and was one of the first researchers to try xenografts — in the 1960s he placed baboon kidneys in six patients.