POSTS TAGGED AS transplantation medicine

First Partial Heart Transplant

Duke reports success in world’s 1st partial heart transplant
“Nearly a year after a newborn received the world’s first partial heart [MORE]

Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Heart Transplantation

Harvesting donor organs
“Typically, donor hearts come from a small pool of donors who are declared brain dead but remain on [MORE]

Xenotransplant of Pig Kidney and Thymus

Xenotransplanted kidney-plus-thymus
“Surgeons at NYU Langone Medical Center tracked the activity of United Therapeutics’ UThymoKidney—a manufactured kidney that also contains a [MORE]

Genetically Engineered Pig for Human Organ Transplant

Pig Kidney Xenotransplantation Performing Optimally After 32 Days in Human Body
“Surgeons at NYU Langone Health have transplanted a genetically engineered [MORE]

Protecting the Liver in Reperfusion

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“New findings from a study lead by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have described a pathway [MORE]

Dual Organ Transplantation

In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant
“Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received [MORE]

Artificial Embryos, Replaceable Organs, and You

This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting
“The company, Renewal Bio, is pursuing recent advances in [MORE]

First Beating Heart Transplant

Beating heart awaiting transplant
“Here we [transplant surgeons at Stanford University Hospital] report the first case of a beating heart transplant [MORE]

Exosomes in Transplanted Organ Rejection

A New Era in Post-Transplant Monitoring
“Of particular relevance to kidney transplant monitoring are the exosomes excreted in urine, which have [MORE]

When was the First Successful Lung Transplant?

 
Evarts Graham, MD performed the first successful lung removal for cancer April 5, 1933
“Evarts A. Graham completed the first successful [MORE]

Keeping Transplantable Organs Viable

A new storage technique could vastly expand the number of livers available
“A patient who received a donated liver that had [MORE]

Keeping Transplantable Livers Alive for a Week

Liver perfusion machine
Transplantable livers are now kept alive for 24 hours while on ice.  But a new machine from engineers [MORE]

“Super Grafts” for Treating Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin-producing organoids
This piece describes how researchers at the University of Geneva have created transplantable pancreatic grafts for treating Type 1 [MORE]

Cleaning Up Donor Organs

Killing infections in donor organs
In order to make donor organs less likely to be rejected, researchers at the University of [MORE]