In 1954, the kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully. Liver, heart and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s, while lung and intestinal organ transplant procedures were begun in the 1980s.

Who started organ transplants?

In 1933, the Soviet surgeon Yu Yu Voronoy performed the first human-to-human kidney transplant. That the kidney was not procured until 6 hours after the donor's death and that it was transplanted across a major blood group mismatch probably accounted for its prompt failure (Voronoy 1937).

Which is the first transplanted organ in human body?

After that, in 1963, the first human liver and lung transplants were performed, followed by pancreas and heart transplantations soon thereafter in 1966 and 1967, respectively.