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22 Nov
Woman Receives World's First Robotic Double-Lung Transplant

Woman Receives World's First Robotic Double-Lung Transplant

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 ...

Surgery: Misc.Organ Transplants
16 Oct
Kidney Transplants Safe When Donor, Recipient Both HIV-Positive

Kidney Transplants Safe When Donor, Recipient Both HIV-Positive

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 three-year survival was the same, regardless of the donor's HIV status, as were the rate of serious si...

Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
18 Sep
Long-Term Outcomes Good for Face Transplant Recipients, Study Finds

Long-Term Outcomes Good for Face Transplant Recipients, Study Finds

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 finds.

In total, 85% of people receiving these complex surgeries survived five years and 74% were still al...

Surgery: Misc.InjuriesOrgan Transplants
09 Sep
He's Doing Great a Year After World's First Eye and Partial Face Transplant

He's Doing Great a Year After World's First Eye and Partial Face Transplant

Key Takeaways

  • The recipient of the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well more than a year out from his groundbreaking surgery, NYU Langone doctors report.

    Aaron James, a 46-year-old military vete...

Eye / Vision Problems: Misc.InjuriesOrgan Transplants
16 Aug
Uterus Transplants Are Leading to Healthy Pregnancies

Uterus Transplants Are Leading to Healthy Pregnancies

Uterine transplants are relatively rare and recent -- the first was performed in 2011, and to date a little more than 100 transplants have been conducted worldwide.

However, a new study finds that these procedures are often successful, leading to pregnancies and live bir...

PregnancyOrgan Transplants
05 Aug
Nation's Heart Transplant List Is Failing Sick Kids, Study Suggests

Nation's Heart Transplant List Is Failing Sick Kids, Study Suggests

The U.S. heart transplant list for children isn’t accurately ranking the sickest kids highest, making it more likely they may die while waiting for a donor heart, a new study claims.

Some very sick children were categorized as category 2, the lowest of the three c...

Organ Transplants
10 Jul
Second Recipient of Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died

Second Recipient of Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Has Died

The second person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday.

The 54-year-old patient, Lisa Pisano, had both kidney failure and

Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ TransplantsHeart Failure
10 Jul
Doctors Perform Larynx Transplant in Cancer Patient

Doctors Perform Larynx Transplant in Cancer Patient

For years, Marty Kedian had been without a voice.

Kedian, who hails from Haverhill, Mass., has undergone dozens of surgeries while being treated for a rare form of laryngeal cancer.

As a result, he was robbed of his voice -- along with the ability to swallow and br...

Organ TransplantsCancer: Laryngeal
10 Jul
Unhealthy Microbiome May Raise Death Risk After Organ Transplant

Unhealthy Microbiome May Raise Death Risk After Organ Transplant

People with an "unhealthy"gut microbiome appear to be more likely to die following an organ transplant, a new study warns.

These gut microbe patterns are specifically associated with deaths from

Organ TransplantsDeath &, Dying: Misc.
24 Jun
Surgeons Perform a U.S. First: Kidney Transplant in Awake Patient

Surgeons Perform a U.S. First: Kidney Transplant in Awake Patient

John Nicolas was deep into kidney transplant surgery when he decided to ask his doctors if they'd started yet.

"At one point during surgery, I recall asking, 'Should I be expecting the spinal anesthesia to kick in?'"Nicolas, 28, recalled in a news release. "They had alre...

Surgery: Misc.Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
05 Jun
Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Woman Who Received It

Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Woman Who Received It

A woman who was the second person to ever receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig has had the transplanted organ removed due to complications linked to a heart pump she is using, her doctors said.

Lisa Pisano, 54, remains hospitalized and has been transferred ba...

Surgery: Misc.Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
13 May
Cancer & COVID Drove Him to Double-Lung Transplant

Cancer & COVID Drove Him to Double-Lung Transplant

Chicago resident Arthur "Art"Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility.

"I was hospitalized for 12 days with a high fever and cough, and during that time, they were taking scans of my lungs, wh...

Surgery: Misc.Cancer: LungOrgan Transplants
13 May
First Pig Kidney Recipient Dies Almost Two Months After Transplant

First Pig Kidney Recipient Dies Almost Two Months After Transplant

Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, has died nearly two months after having the historic surgery.

In a

Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
07 May
Small Pump May Let Kids Stay Home As They Await New Heart

Small Pump May Let Kids Stay Home As They Await New Heart

A small, implantable heart pump could help children await heart transplants at home rather than languishing in a hospital, according to a new study.

The pump is surgically attached to augment the heart's blood-pumping action, giving more time to find a donor heart, resea...

Medical Technology: Misc.Organ Transplants
24 Apr
Patient Gets First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Plus Heart Pump

Patient Gets First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Plus Heart Pump

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 conditi...

Surgery: Misc.GeneticsOrgan TransplantsHeart Failure
04 Apr
First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital

First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital

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 hospital just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery.

"This moment -- leaving the hospital today w...

Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ TransplantsOrgan Donation
28 Mar
Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer

Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer

Dr. Gary Gibbon didn't have long to live.

A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently d...

Surgery: Misc.Cancer: LungOrgan TransplantsLiver
27 Mar
Black Men Less Likely to Receive Heart Transplants Than White Men or Women

Black Men Less Likely to Receive Heart Transplants Than White Men or Women

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 shows.

The news is troubling, since "Black patients have a two to three times greater risk of developing...

RaceOrgan Transplants
21 Mar
Surgeons Implant Pig Kidney Into First Living Human Patient

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, altered to lower the risk of rejection and disease, have been successful...

Surgery: Misc.Kidney Problems: Misc.GeneticsOrgan Transplants
14 Mar
Race, Ethnicity Plays Role in Liver Transplant Survival

Race, Ethnicity Plays Role in Liver Transplant Survival

Researchers hope findings from a new study of liver transplant patients will lead to improved interventions for those from racial and ethnic minority groups.

The study -- led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- found the risk of dying while wait...

RaceAlcohol: Misc.Organ TransplantsLiver Disease: Misc.
13 Mar
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Be Lifesaver for Folks Needing New Kidneys

Weight-Loss Surgery Could Be Lifesaver for Folks Needing New Kidneys

Weight-loss surgery may help patients struggling with obesity and kidney failure become eligible for a lifesaving transplant, researchers report.

Obesity is a key reason why some kidney patients are turned down for a transplant.

But weight-loss surgery "not only he...

Surgery: Misc.Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
01 Dec
Treatment Used on Donated Hearts May Be Useless, Even Harmful: Study

Treatment Used on Donated Hearts May Be Useless, Even Harmful: Study

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 organ donors with thyroid hormones, in a bid to preserve heart function and keep the donors' organs...

Organ TransplantsHormones: Thyroid
09 Nov
Man Maimed by Electric Shock Receives First-Ever Face Transplant That Includes New Eye

Man Maimed by Electric Shock Receives First-Ever Face Transplant That Includes New Eye

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 performed in May, a NYU Langone Health surgical team transplanted an entire left eye and the portion o...

Surgery: Misc.Organ Transplants
08 Nov
Double-Lung Transplant, Breast Implants Save Life of Man Who Battled Vaping-Linked Illness

Double-Lung Transplant, Breast Implants Save Life of Man Who Battled Vaping-Linked Illness

"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 artificial lung, a prompt double-lung transplant"¦ and a set of DD breast implants.

Doctors at No...

Surgery: Misc.Organ Transplants
01 Nov
Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant

Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant

The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died.

Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental procedure.

Unfortunately, the heart had been showing signs of rejec...

Organ TransplantsOrgan Donation
16 Oct
Donor's Immune Cells Could Help Transplant Recipients Avoid Organ Rejection

Donor's Immune Cells Could Help Transplant Recipients Avoid Organ Rejection

A liver transplant can give people a new lease on life, but at the cost of lifelong immune-suppressing medication and its risks. Now an innovative approach to reduce, or possibly eliminate, certain patients' reliance on those drugs is showing early promise.

The tactic is...

Organ Transplants
13 Oct
Monkey Given Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Still Alive Two Years Later

Monkey Given Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Still Alive Two Years Later

Two years after a gene-edited pig kidney was transplanted into a monkey, researchers report the monkey is still alive.

"We're the only group in the field to comprehensively address safety and efficacy of our donor organ with these edits,"said study co-author

Kidney Problems: Misc.Organ Transplants
25 Sep
Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient

Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient

A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease.

The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.

The medical team was ...

Surgery: Misc.Gene TherapyOrgan Transplants
08 Sep
Implant Can Warn Weeks Early That Transplanted Organ Will Be Rejected

Implant Can Warn Weeks Early That Transplanted Organ Will Be Rejected

Receiving an organ transplant can be a nerve-wracking, if lifesaving, affair, said Dr. Joaquin Brieva, a kidney transplant recipient.

...

Organ TransplantsMedical Technology: Misc.
07 Sep
In a First, Scientists Grow Human Kidneys Inside Pigs

In a First, Scientists Grow Human Kidneys Inside Pigs

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 countless lives.

Chinese researchers grew partially human early-stage kidneys inside embryonic pig...

Organ TransplantsKidney Problems: Misc.Medical Technology: Misc.Stem Cells
31 Aug
In Primate Study, Antibody Treatment Prevents Organ Rejection After Transplant

In Primate Study, Antibody Treatment Prevents Organ Rejection After Transplant

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 promoting graft survival after kidney and pancreatic islet cell transplantations, according to th...

Organ TransplantsImmune Disorders
28 Aug
Getting His Life Back: Regaining Strength After a Triple-Organ Transplant

Getting His Life Back: Regaining Strength After a Triple-Organ Transplant

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 in the United States to ever receive three new organs via transplantation.

He received a n...

Organ Transplants
16 Aug
Improved Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplants Mark a Major Advance

Improved Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplants Mark a Major Advance

Genetically engineered pig kidneys are nearing the point where they could provide a government-approved, sustainable supply of organs for sick humans awaiting a transplant, a pair of new studies argue.

A lightly modified pig kidney has continued to function more than a m...

Organ TransplantsGenetics
08 Aug
'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants

'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants

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 have something on my face,"said Deer, 51, a Chicago-area politician and psychologist.

"I imme...

Organ TransplantsSurgery: Misc.
12 Jun
Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study

Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study

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 research shows.

The top candidate is ranked that way based on an objective algorithm using age, wait...

Organ TransplantsSurgery: Misc.Hospitals
08 Jun
New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts

New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts

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 of donor hearts available in the United States.

The trial tested an approach that allows doctors ...

Heart / Stroke-Related: Coronary-Artery DiseaseSurgery: Misc.Organ DonationOrgan Transplants
24 Apr
Cool Storage Could Keep Lungs Ready for Transplant Longer

Cool Storage Could Keep Lungs Ready for Transplant Longer

Storing donor lungs at cool -- but not near freezing -- temperatures can markedly increase the length of time the organs can live outside the human body, a new study suggests.

Lungs stored at 50 degrees Fahrenheit remain healthy and viable for transplant up to four times...

Surgery: Misc.Organ Transplants
09 Apr
Debunking Myths About Organ Donation

Debunking Myths About Organ Donation

Far more people need an organ transplant than there are organs available.

It doesn't have to be that way.

Dr. Johnny Hong, chief of transplantation at Penn State Health's Mi...

Organ TransplantsOrgan Donation
23 Mar
Feds Propose Overhaul of U.S. Organ Transplant System

Feds Propose Overhaul of U.S. Organ Transplant System

A single nonprofit has what amounts to a monopoly over all organ transplants performed in the United States, but the federal government said Wednesday that it plans to change that.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which has contracted with the Un...

Organ DonationOrgan Transplants
15 Mar
New Lease on Life for Two Lung Cancer Patients After Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant

New Lease on Life for Two Lung Cancer Patients After Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant

Retired nurse Tannaz Ameli was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last winter. When chemotherapy failed, her doctors recommended hospice care.

But Ameli, of Minneapolis, had other ideas. She and her husband sought out a pioneering medical team at Northwestern Medici...

Surgery: Misc.Cancer: LungOrgan Transplants
09 Feb
Scientists Devise Way to Keep Donor Hearts Viable Longer

Scientists Devise Way to Keep Donor Hearts Viable Longer

Doctors have discovered a way to extend the short shelf life of donor hearts, which could hopefully make more of the organs available to desperate recipients.

Valproic acid (Depakote), which is approved to treat seizures, boosts production of an enzyme that increases the...

Organ Transplants
09 Feb
Massachusetts Bill Would Let Prisoners Donate Organs in Exchange for Shorter Sentence

Massachusetts Bill Would Let Prisoners Donate Organs in Exchange for Shorter Sentence

Massachusetts legislators have proposed a bill that would allow prison inmates to donate their organs or bone marrow as a way to trim the length of their sentence.

While some experts wonder about th...

Organ TransplantsOrgan Donation
09 Jan
There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant

There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant

A new way of allocating donor lungs that eliminates geographical restrictions could save more lives, new research suggests.

In early 2023, the current U.S. system, which looks for compatible candidates within a fixed radius, will be replaced by the Composite Allocation S...

SurvivalOrgan DonationOrgan Transplants
29 Nov
Need for Organ Transplants Surges at Big Motorcycle Rallies: Study

Need for Organ Transplants Surges at Big Motorcycle Rallies: Study

Once a year, giant motorcycle rallies ride into places like Daytona Beach, Fla., and Sturgis, S.D., bringing hundreds of thousands of people, an economic boost -- and a wave of crash-related deaths.

That means more organs available for donation and the need to be prepar...

Organ TransplantsSafety &, Public HealthOrgan DonationTravel Safety: Motor Vehicle Injury
21 Nov
69 vs. 70: Bias Against Older Organ Donors May Be Costing Lives

69 vs. 70: Bias Against Older Organ Donors May Be Costing Lives

The difference between age 69 and age 70 is, of course, just a single year.

Yet, organizations that receive organs for transplant patients are less likely to choose one from the older donor, a

Organ TransplantsAgeOrgan Donation
31 Oct
Heart's Electrical Signals Changed in First Pig-to-Human Cardiac Transplant

Heart's Electrical Signals Changed in First Pig-to-Human Cardiac Transplant

Less than a year after the first-ever transplant of a pig heart into a human patient, doctors are reporting that the heart showed unexpected changes in its electrical system before the recipient ultimately died.

The changes are not believed to have contributed to the pat...

Heart / Stroke-Related: Coronary-Artery DiseaseOrgan DonationOrgan Transplants
31 Oct
Hearts From Donors Who Had COVID Are Safe for Transplant

Hearts From Donors Who Had COVID Are Safe for Transplant

A person with heart failure in dire need of a new heart may have faced delays in getting one during the pandemic when potential donors tested positive f...

Heart FailureOrgan Transplants
18 Oct
Some Donor Livers Keep Working for 100 Years: Study

Some Donor Livers Keep Working for 100 Years: Study

Some human livers are tougher than others, lasting more than 100 cumulative years between the organ's original host and a transplant recipient, a new study ...

Liver Disease: Misc.Surgery: Misc.Organ Transplants
26 Aug
Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryo With Brain, Beating Heart

Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryo With Brain, Beating Heart

Using only mouse stem cells, British researchers report they have created synthetic embryos that form a brain, a beating heart and other organs.

The stem cells ...

Research &, DevelopmentAbortionStem CellsOrgan Transplants
17 Aug
Organ From Live Donor Best When Child Needs New Kidney

Organ From Live Donor Best When Child Needs New Kidney

Children who need kidney transplants have better long-term outcomes when the donor is a living person and not someone who has died and donated organs, a new study finds.

"Th...

Organ TransplantsKidney Problems: Misc.Kids: Misc.Organ Donation