PHENOMENON OF DEMIKHOV. In the Sklifosovsky Institute (1960–1986). The Moscow dreamer (autumn of 1960)

Abstract

On September 1, 1960, V.P. Demikhov was taken in the staff of the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine. But earlier, in the summer of that year, he talked at a meeting of the Academic Council of the Institute about his achievements in transplanting vital organs in warm-blooded animals in experiment, and outlined a plan for their implementation into clinical practice. In his opinion, the N.V.Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine best suited for that purpose. However, the first months of his work in a new place showed that the Institute was neither morally nor organizationally ready to perform clinical organ transplantations. The his idea of mammarocoronary anastomosis developed in 1953 was not heard either.