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GCSE History · key term
An operation that transfers a donated organ or tissue into a patient to replace something damaged or failing.
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Paper 1
Revise: High-tech Medical and Surgical TreatmentsTransplant surgery offered a way to replace an organ that could no longer function adequately. Kidney transplants became possible during the twentieth century, and the first heart transplant took place in South Africa in 1967. This was an international breakthrough with significance for the development of treatment in Britain.
For questions about the extent of change, balance major advances with remaining limitations, such as transplant rejection and diseases that cannot always be cured.
Keep examples relevant to the period and place. The first heart transplant in 1967 was an international breakthrough that influenced medicine in Britain, not an operation performed in Britain.
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