Tag: transplant
Could being awake during a kidney transplant become the norm?
News Published on 08/24/2024 at 5:02 p.m. updated on 08/24/2024 at 5:02 p.m. Reading 3 min. “I saw it all”: At 74, Harry Stackhouse watched as doctors transplanted a new…
Ulf reached the WC final – after the heart transplant
A spring evening in April 2021. Gustavsberg resident Ulf Ununger has just settled down at the dining table on the patio when his cell phone rings. The call comes from…
HIV: Seventh case of probable cure after bone marrow transplant
News Published on 20/07/2024 at 09:02 Updated 20/07/2024 at 09:02 Reading 2 min. A seventh case, probable, of cure of HIV after a bone marrow transplant: a 60-year-old German no…
Head transplant possible in a few years?
A company unveils a machine that could allow head transplants in a few years. Medical progress is unstoppable. With the help of technology, projects are multiplying to find solutions to…
London doctors test new transplant technique in Canadian first
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News A team of London doctors have delivered a Canadian medical first, using a new transplant technique that may save more lives and increase the…
First kidney transplant awake: a patient watches his own transplant
News Published on 06/26/2024 at 10:37 a.m. Updated 06/26/2024 at 10:37 a.m. Reading 3 min. American surgeons performed a kidney transplant during which the patient remained awake. The latter was…
death of recipient of first genetically modified pig kidney transplant
In the United States, the first patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant died this Sunday, May 12. His doctors explain that it is difficult at this stage…
At the hospital, the transplant sector also in danger
The crisis in the hospital sector in France also has an impact on kidney transplants with living donors, where the wait can last several years. This type of operation, which…
First pig kidney transplant completed
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen A kidney from a pig has been transplanted into a human. Archive image. Photo: Tore Meek/NTB Scanpix/TT Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have succeeded in…
Bert Janssen has lived the longest after a heart transplant
In 1984, the then 17-year-old Bert Janssen was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. At the time, a heart transplant had not yet been carried out in the Netherlands and…