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Patient Gets First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Plus Heart Pump
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 – New Jersey native Lisa Pisano was staring down the end of her days. The 54-year-old had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, but several chronic medical conditions...
First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 – Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was released from the...
Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer
THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 – Dr. Gary Gibbon didn’t have long to live. A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently destroyed his lungs a...
Heart Transplant Offer Acceptance Highest for White Women
TUESDAY, March 26, 2024 – The cumulative incidence of heart transplant offer acceptance is highest for White women, according to a study published online March 25 in the Journal of the American...
Black Men Less Likely to Receive Heart Transplants Than White Men or Women
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 – The odds in the United States that a well-functioning donor heart will go to a Black man are lower than for white transplant candidates of either gender, new research...
Surgeons Implant Pig Kidney Into First Living Human Patient
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 (HealthDay news) – For the first time ever, doctors have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human suffering from advanced kidney failure. Such pig kidneys,...
Metabolic, Bariatric Surgery Provides Pathway to Transplant in ESRD
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 – Referral of obese end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients to metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) could offer a pathway to transplant, according to a study published...
Study Looks at COVID Threat to Folks With Weakened Immune Systems
MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 – It’s long been known that people with immune deficiencies are at increased risk for severe COVID. But a new study shows the threat varies dramatically based on how severe t...
No Improvement Noted in Black-White Kidney Transplant Rate Ratios
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 – For patients with kidney failure, there appears to be no substantial improvement over time in the observed or adjusted Black-White mean living donor kidney transplant...
Risk for Vitiligo Increased for Transplant Recipients
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 – Transplant recipients, especially those receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), have an increased risk for vitiligo, according to a brief report published...
Your Organs Are Aging Differently, and a New Test CouldPinpoint Risk
THURSDAY, Dec. 7, 2023 – A certain organ or organs might be growing old faster than the rest of a person's body, placing them at increased risk for disease and death, a new study suggests. About one...
Treatment Used on Donated Hearts May Be Useless, Even Harmful: Study
FRIDAY, Dec. 1, 2023 – A technique doctors use to preserve donated organs is actually doing no good, and might even be harming the organs, a new study reports. Physicians routinely dose deceased...
Levothyroxine Infusion Does Not Increase Heart Transplants Versus Saline Infusion
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2023 – Intravenous levothyroxine infusion does not result in more hearts being transplanted than saline infusion among hemodynamically unstable brain-dead potential heart donors,...
First-Ever Face Transplant That Includes New Eye For Man Maimed by Shock
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2023 – An Arkansas man maimed by a massive electrical shock to his face has successfully received the world's first whole-eye and partial face transplant. In a 21-hour surgery...
Double-Lung Transplant, Breast Implants Save Life of Man Who Battled Vaping-Linked Illness
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 – "Davey" Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged...
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