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People With HIV Can Now Receive Livers, Kidneys From HIV-Positive Donors
TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2024 – People with HIV can now receive a potentially life-saving kidney or liver from a donor who is also infected with the virus, according to new rules announced Tuesday by the...
Woman Receives World's First Robotic Double-Lung Transplant
FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2024 – A 57-year-old woman with COPD has received the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant. The breakthrough surgery was performed in October at NYU Langone Health in...
Artificial Intelligence Model Predicts Kidney Graft Survival
THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 – The U.K. Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Outcome Prediction (UK-DTOP) model, developed using advanced artificial intelligence, demonstrates superior calibration and...
High-Volume Centers Do Not Mitigate Heart Transplant Survival Disparity
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 – Receiving a heart transplant (HT) at high-volume centers (HVCs) does not ameliorate the survival disparity between recipients who are most and least socioeconomically...
Kidney Transplants Safe When Donor, Recipient Both HIV-Positive
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 – People living with HIV who need a kidney can rest assured that outcomes are similar whether their kidney donor was also HIV-positive or not, a new study finds. One- and...
Kidney Transplant Noninferior From Donors With Versus Without HIV in HIV-Positive Recipients
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 – Among recipients with HIV, kidney transplantation from donors with HIV is noninferior to that from donors without HIV, according to a study published online Oct. 16 in the...
Study: Five-Year Survival for Face Transplant Is 85 Percent
TUESDAY, Sept. 24, 2024 – The overall survival for face transplants is encouraging, with 10-year survival at 74 percent, according to a study published online Sept. 18 in JAMA Surgery. Pauliina ...
Long-Term Outcomes Good for Face Transplant Recipients, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 18, 2024 – There have been 50 face transplants performed in 11 countries since the surgery was pioneered back in 2005, and long-term outcomes have been favorable, a new review...
He's Doing Great a Year After World's First Eye and Partial Face Transplant
Key Takeaways A man who received the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well His body has not rejected either his new face of his new left eye However, vision ...
Women With Liver Cancer Less Likely Than Men to Receive Liver Transplant
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 – Women with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are less likely to receive a deceased-donor liver transplant (DDLT) and more likely to die while wait-listed than men, according to a...
Liver Grafts Feasible From Hep C-Positive Donors After Circulatory Death
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 4, 2024 – Liver grafts from hepatitis C virus-positive (HCV+) donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors have one-year patient and graft survival comparable with that of donation...