Dimitri Novitzky • David K.C. Cooper
Editors

2013

The development of organ transplantation took a major step forward with the clinical diagnosis of brain death in the late 1960s. This led to a steadily increasing number of deceased donor organs becoming available for transplantation. It also reduced the need to take organs from nonheart-beating donors and, therefore, improved the viability and quality of the organs being transplanted.