The organ donor for the patient suffering from chronic renal failure was his brother. The operation was performed by a team composed of Prof. Wojciech Lisik (operator), Prof. Roman Danielewicz, Piotr Domagała, MD, PhD (operator), Maciej Romanowski, MD, PhD, and nurses Zofia Przybyszewska and Anna Konczal.
This latest operation continues the great tradition and achievements of our transplantologists. Let us recall that the first successful transplantation was performed on 26 January 1966 by Prof. Jan Nielubowicz with a team consisting of associate professor Bolesław Marzinek, Dr Jerzy Szczerbań, Dr Waldemar Olszewski, Dr Wojciech Rowiński, Dr Marek Skośkiewicz and anaesthesiologists Dr Bogdan Kamiński, Dr Janusz Kącki and Dr Jerzy Siedlecki. The operation was performed at the 1st Surgical Clinic of the Medical Academy in Warsaw (now the Department and Clinic of General, Vascular and Transplant Surgery of the UCC MUW).
The kidney recipient, 18-year-old Danusia Milewska, was prepared and cared for after the operation by the team of professor Tadeusz Orłowski from the Department of Internal Medicine (now the Department of Immunology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine): dr Halina Rymkiewicz, dr Danuta Stryjecka-Rowińska, dr Ewa Kłopotowska, dr Mieczysław Lao and dr Liliana Gradowska.
Photograph: Department of General and Transplantation Surgery UCC MUW