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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Woman is back on dialysis after doctors remove transplanted pig kidney

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the gradually failing organ after just 47 days. The first patient to receive a pig kidney transplant, Richard “Rick” Slayman at Massachusetts General Hospital, died in early May, nearly two months after his transplant. Pisano’s heart and kidneys were failing when, …

Heart Kidney Pig Transplant Nyu Pisano Doctors Remove

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Alien organs give hope of longer life

China Daily

Medical experts perform a surgery to transplant blood vessels from a genetically edited pig to the abdominal wall of a recipient monkey at Xijing Hospital at the Air Force Military Medical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. ZENG XIANHUI/FOR CHINA DAILY The world's fifth living-body alien organ transplant, the first liver transplant from a pig to a living human, was successfully …

Medical Transplant Liver Organ

9 months ago

US surgeons transplanted pig kidney into patient for the first time, hospital says

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. He noted that unlike the pig heart recipients who were very …

Doctors Kidney Human Pig Patient Transplant Massachusetts

1 year, 2 months ago

What does it mean to have a uterus transplant? | Explained

The Hindu

On August 23, doctors at the Churchill Hospital Oxford, in the U.K., conducted the country’s first uterus transplant. In the first step of pregnancy, doctors transfer embryos prepared by in vitro fertilisation and cryopreserved to the recipient’s uterus. The recipient is recommended regular follow-ups with doctors for at least a decade after the uterus’s removal to – among other things …

India Women Sweden Live Transplant Uterus Transplants

1 year, 4 months ago

Wadia hospital to start paediatric heart transplant programme

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: A dearth of specialists, affordable healthcare and infrastructure in the country continues to pose immense challenges to children with congenital heart disease. While Fortis Hospital in the city has a dedicated paediatric heart transplant team, Wadia Hospital’s heart transplant programme will be a boon to patients who cannot obtain essential health services. Doctors said an affordable paediatric transplant programme …

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1 year, 11 months ago

In a First for MP, Brain Dead Woman's Hands Donated; Recipient Teen Girl from Mumbai

News 18

The hands of a brain dead 52-year-old woman in Indore in Madhya Pradesh were donated for transplantation into a Mumbai-based teen girl, which a health official on Monday said was the first case of its kind in the state and was a “revolution in the field of organ donation”. Indore resident Vinita Khajanchi was admitted to a private hospital here …

Mumbai Organ Donation Donation Hands Organ Khajanchi

2 years, 4 months ago

Harvested organs of brain-dead labourer give new lease of life to three persons

The Hindu

The organs of a daily wage worker, who was declared brain-dead at the Government Stanley Hospital, have been donated to several patients. A press release from the hospital said the family members of the 59-year-old man, his wife and two married daughters agreed to donate his skin, liver and two kidneys after the patient died. Hailing from Peruvoyal village in …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Delhi: Brain dead patient donates lungs, heart, kidney, and liver to 5 people

Live Mint

AIIMS Delhi has carried out a successful second lung transplant of a woman on Saturday. A 50-year-old woman got new lungs today, making it the second lung transplant procedure to be carried out at the premier institute in less than three months. Dr Deepak Gupta, Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at AIIMS said that for the first time lungs …

Patient Lung Transplant Lungs Aiims

3 years, 6 months ago

Organs of 43-year-old Brain Dead Woman Help Save Lives of Four People: Delhi Hospital