Tag: graft
National Organ Donation Day: concerns for the transplant plan
News Posted 18 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. While a 4th ministerial organ and tissue transplant plan was unveiled last March, the waiting time to obtain certain organs, including the…
Three Kidney Transplant Children Live Without Immunosuppressants
News Published 1 day ago, Reading 2 mins. It is a small revolution in the medical world and more particularly in that of transplantations. Three American children, suffering from a…
Transplant: the very first transplant patient with a pig’s heart has died
News Posted 1 day ago, Reading 2 mins. The patient, David Bennett, died at the age of 57 on Tuesday after a pig heart transplant. He lasted two months with…
Transplant: doctors make a lung compatible with all patients
Blood type is one of the sources of incompatibility between a donor and a recipient during a transplant. Canadian doctors have developed a rapid method to change the blood type…
Doctors make one lung compatible with all patients
Blood type is one of the sources of incompatibility between a donor and a recipient during a transplant. Canadian doctors have developed a rapid method to change the blood type…
HIV: a person potentially cured thanks to a new treatment
News Published on 02/16/2022 at 4:34 p.m., Reading 2 mins. An American woman with HIV has been in remission for 14 months. This encouraging news is thanks to the transplant…
Covid-19: For lack of a vaccine, he is refused a heart transplant
News Posted 19 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. In Boston, USA, a 31-year-old man has just been removed from the list of people awaiting a heart transplant. In question: his…
Organ donation: a genetically modified pig kidney successfully transplanted into humans!
News Published 9 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. After the transplant of a pig’s heart in humans a few weeks ago, here is the kidney transplant! Indeed, a few months…
First successful transplant of a humanized pig heart on a patient
Doctors from Baltimore, Maryland have successfully performed a one-of-a-kind xenograft. A genetically modified pig’s heart has been transplanted into a 57-year-old man with end-stage heart disease. At 57, David Bennett,…
First successful transplant of a pig’s heart into a human
News Posted on 01/11/2022 at 12:11 p.m., Reading 2 mins. Three days after the transplant, the patient, who was not eligible for a conventional transplant, is doing well. A world…