Tag: transplant
A patient without a Covid vaccine in the USA has been removed from the heart transplant waiting list
A hospital in the USA has removed a patient without a Covid-19 vaccine from the heart transplant waiting list. The 31-year-old patient, DJ Ferguson, needed an emergency heart transplant. Ferguson’s…
“To transplant a non-vaccinated person is to waste an organ”: Dr Gérald Kierzek is indignant at the words of a colleague
News Published 5m ago, Reading 2 mins. The speech given by the director of the Mont-Godinne lung transplant center in Namur in Belgium made Dr. Gérald Kierzek jump, who denounced…
First pig-to-human heart transplant in the US
A pig heart was transplanted as a last resort to a 57-year-old heart patient who was dying at a hospital in the US state of Maryland. It was announced that…
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…
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…
A First in Medicine: Pig-to-Human Heart Transplantation
A genetically modified pig heart has been transplanted into a person suffering from a fatal heart disease in the USA. The surgery, a first in the history of medicine, was…
First pig-to-human heart transplant performed in the US
A pig heart was transplanted as a last resort to a 57-year-old heart patient who was dying at a hospital in the US state of Maryland. It was announced that…