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YEARS OF LIFE-SAVINGTRANSPLANTATION 50

at Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center

1968-2018

HEART TRANSPLANT MILESTONES

1968

Johns Hopkins surgeon Vincent

Gott performs thefirst heart

transplant in MD

1983

First heart/lungtransplant in

the mid-Atlanticregion

1986

First infant-to-infant heart

transplant in MD

1983

Johns HopkinsHeart Transplant

Programofficially launches

1986

New VentricularAssist Device

Program offers a“bridge to transplant”

1987

First dominoheart transplant

procedure inthe U.S.

KIDNEY AND PANCREAS TRANSPLANT MILESTONES

1968

First kidneytransplant

in MD

1995

First-everlaparoscopic

kidney removal

2006

First-ever5-wayKPD

1993

20032009

2009

Led first 8-way multihospital

domino kidneytransplant

2016

Johns Hopkinscelebrates 1,000thkidney transplant

First-evertriple dominokidney paired

donation (KPD)First-ever

living donorvaginal

nephrectomy

First HIV+to HIV+kidney

transplantin the U.S.

LUNG TRANSPLANT MILESTONES

1983

First heart-lungtransplant in the

Mid-Atlantic region

2018

450+ lungtransplants performed

since 1983

1994

Lung transplantprogram

established

RECONSTRUCTIVE TRANSPLANT(VASCULAR COMPOSITE ALLOTRANSPLANTATION) MILESTONES

2010

Department of Plasticand ReconstructiveSurgery established

2018

First-ever fullpenis and scrotum

transplant

2012

Surgeons performJohns Hopkins Hospital’s

first double arm transplant

LIVER TRANSPLANT MILESTONES

1986

Liver transplantprogram established,

oldest programin mid-Atlantic

1987

First pediatricliver transplant

in MD

2016

First-ever HIV+to HIV+

liver transplant

1986

First livertransplantin the mid-

Atlantic region

1992

First adult-to-child

liver donation200+ pediatric

liver transplantssince 1986