Tag: transplant
Hugo, 6, is waiting for a lung transplant – living with a 25 meter long tube
Hugo Vendin has assistants from home health care who help him around the clock with everything from tube feeding to watching over him at night. Hugo’s parents work in shifts…
Kidney transplant rejections: software allows them to be diagnosed in less than a second
News Published on 05/22/2023 at 2:55 p.m. Updated 05/22/2023 at 2:55 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Cock-a-doodle Doo ! French researchers have developed software to quickly diagnose cases of kidney transplant…
First transplant from a still beating heart
News Published on 04/25/2023 at 1:59 p.m. Updated 04/25/2023 at 1:59 p.m. Reading 2 mins. This is a world medical first. In the United States, surgeons have managed the feat…
World first: a lung transplant performed with a robot without opening the thorax
News Published on 04/18/2023 at 7:15 p.m. Updated 04/18/2023 at 7:15 p.m. Reading 4 mins. In Barcelona, a team of thoracic surgeons announces that they have performed the world’s first…
Foch Hospital: the second baby from the first uterus transplant in France is born!
News Published on 03/03/2023 at 11:12 am Updated 03/03/2023 at 11:12 am Reading 2 mins. Marie Lanen Head of parenting section (baby, pregnancy, family) Born without a uterus, Deborah is…
a third case of HIV recovery after a bone marrow transplant
A new case of HIV cure was announced on Monday February 20 after the publication of the work of several virologists in the journal Nature Medicine. After a bone marrow…
UMC Utrecht: Third European officially cured of HIV by stem cell transplant
The UMC, together with other hospitals, conducts research into patients with HIV who need a stem cell transplant for a condition such as leukaemia. In order to also tackle HIV…
A woman in need of a kidney transplant finds a donor in an unusual way
News Published on 02/14/2023 at 4:36 p.m. Updated 02/14/2023 at 4:36 p.m. Reading 2 mins. In Canada, a 62-year-old woman who had no other choice than a kidney transplant to…
Organ transplant: every day 2 or 3 people on the waiting list will not find a transplant
News Published on 02/08/2023 at 5:36 p.m. Updated 02/08/2023 at 5:36 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Organ transplants increased slightly in 2022. But the figures remain significantly lower than those known…
Face transplant: how does the donor’s family experience such an experience?
News Published on 02/07/2023 at 6:43 p.m. Updated 02/07/2023 at 6:43 p.m. Reading 3 mins. Following the first face transplant performed in Belgium, the University Hospital of Ghent focused on…