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In a First, Scientists Grow Human Kidneys Inside Pigs
THURSDAY, Sept. 7, 2023 – For the first time ever, a solid humanized organ has been grown from scratch in an animal — a first step in a process that could potentially solve organ shortages and save c...
In Primate Study, Antibody Treatment Prevents Organ Rejection After Transplant
THURSDAY, Aug. 31, 2023 – A new study in non-human primates shows potential for using a manmade monoclonal antibody to help prevent organ rejection after a transplant. The antibody was successful in...
Getting His Life Back: Regaining Strength After a Triple-Organ Transplant
MONDAY, Aug. 28, 2023 – Valance Sams Sr. believes that he has experienced "a miracle." Sams, now 46, underwent a triple organ transplant in the spring of 2023, making him one of fewer than 50 people...
'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 – Dennis Deer woke from surgery in utter disbelief that he was breathing normally. He’d been on supplemental oxygen for two years, and “I didn’t know what it was like not to hav...
AHA News: Dallas Radio Personality Gets a New Heart After Cardiac Problems Take a Toll
MONDAY, July 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) – Hal Harbuck was walking from the dock to his family's lake cabin when he felt a severe pain in his chest. Having recently been water skiing,...
Promising Outcomes Seen for Living Kidney Donors With HIV
MONDAY, July 31, 2023 – Outcomes are encouraging for the first three living kidney donors with HIV, according to research published online July 24 in The Lancet Regional Health: Americas. In a...
Racial Disparities Seen Among Hospitalized Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis
WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2023 – Among individuals hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis, racial and ethnic disparities in the use of complex life-saving procedures and mortality persist, according to...
Technical Variant Graft Usage Affects Pediatric Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality
FRIDAY, July 21, 2023 – For pediatric liver transplant (LT) candidates, higher technical variant graft (TVG; including living donor [LD] and deceased donor split/partial grafts) usage is associated...
AHA News: 'Heart Sisters': How One Family's Loss Led to New Life and a Deep Friendship
THURSDAY, July 13, 2023 (American Heart Association News) – When Jennifer Mayadas-Dering started coughing and having a headache, she didn't think much of it. She was far more concerned with her son,...
Letermovir Noninferior for CMV Prophylaxis in Kidney Recipients
TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 – Letermovir is noninferior to valganciclovir for prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) among CMV-seronegative kidney transplant recipients who receive an organ from a...
Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study
MONDAY, June 12, 2023 – Many transplant centers routinely practice “list-diving,” when the top candidate among potential organ recipients is skipped in favor of someone further down the list, new res...
Survival Noninferior With Heart Donated After Circulatory Death
FRIDAY, June 9, 2023 – Risk-adjusted survival at six months after transplantation is noninferior for patients receiving a heart after the circulatory death of a donor or after brain death of a...
New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 – A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found — in an advance that could substantially expand the supply o...
AHA News: She's Survived Cancer, Heart Failure and a Heart Transplant
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 (American Heart Association News) – When Dawn Mussallem was little, she dreamed of having her face on a Smucker's jar – the recognition the "Today" show gives to people who r...
AHA News: 38-Year-Old Has Had 3 Hearts: 'It's a Third Chance'
WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) – Melanie Wickersheim has no memory of the first time her heart gave her trouble. She was an infant, and her pediatric myocarditis – an i...
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