A brief yet incomplete subjective history of Transfusion... by timeline

Leo J. McCarthy, MD FRCP EDIN / IREEmeritus Professor Pathology / Medicine / Pediatrics

Presentation by PMEG IUPUI

Fredrik Skarstedt 09 - 2005

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”

Isaac Newton1643-1727

British Scientist

~1770 Hewsonfibrin

1907:Ottenberg

1913

C,anac

1974: 1st P.E. for TTPIUMC(now > 200 pts)

1986: 1st frozen autologous stem cells reconstitute patient’s BMUNMC

Duke harvested, Indiana processedtransfused in FranceIndiana patient and donorIUMC

Dx Fanconi’s A.

1979: CPDA-1 1999: NAT : HIV/HCV

Commissioner David Kessler