Emerich Ullmann (23 February 1861 – 1937) was an Austrian

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who was a native of

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. In 1884, he received his doctorate in

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, and afterwards worked in the surgical department of

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(1829–1894). Briefly, he worked as was an assistant to

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(1822–1895) in

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, where he was involved with research of antisera against

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. In 1885, he returned to the

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at the first department of surgery. Ullmann was a pioneer of

renal transplantation Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantat ...

research. In 1902, he performed the first successful renal

autotransplantation Autotransplantation is the organ transplantation, transplantation of Organ (anatomy), organs, Biological tissue, tissues, or even particular proteins from one part of the body to another in the same person (''wikt:auto-, auto-'' meaning "self" ...

in a dog. Reportedly, the

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remained functional for five days. Soon afterwards, he was unsuccessful in trying the first renal

xenotransplantation Xenotransplantation (''xenos-'' from the Greek meaning "foreign" or strange), or heterologous transplant, is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenograft ...

(cross-species transplant) between a goat and a dog. Following an unsuccessful attempt to transplant a pig's kidney into a human patient, who was in the final stage of renal disease, he stopped research of kidney transplantation. He also conducted investigations of tissue and other organ (non-kidney) transplants.

Associated eponyms

* Ullmann's line: The line of displacement in

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. * Ullmann's syndrome: A systemic

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due to multiple

arteriovenous malformation Arteriovenous malformation is an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, bypassing the capillary system. This vascular anomaly is widely known because of its occurrence in the central nervous system (usually cerebral AVM), but can appea ...

References

NCBI
Emerich Ullmann and Organ Transplantation
Mondofacto Dictionary
(definition of eponyms) Austrian surgeons People from Pécs 1861 births 1937 deaths {{Hungary-academic-bio-stub