Transplant surgery: First carried out in 1954 with kidney transplants, they developed with anatomical and scientific knowledge, enabling us to carry out liver transplants in the 1960s and by 1967 the first successful heart transplant was carried out in South Africa.
The 1980s saw the development of Microsurgery due to advancements in technology and so today we can rejoin nerves and blood vessels, allowing us to reattach limbs which has particularly helped soldiers in conflicts (eg. Afghanistan) .
Key Hole surgery was developed in the 1990s, allowing us to carry out surgery without having to cause damage to the body, allowed by the advancement in cameras and fibre optic cabling.
Jumping back to the 1960s, a procedure known as 'tissue typing' was developed in order to help match kidney's between the patient and donor to reduce the chances of infection and rejection.

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