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Chinese team reports xenotransplant and first-step liver experiment
A Chinese patient is the third person in world known to be living with a gene-edited pig kidney, with the research team also reporting...
US patient dies from rabies after transplant
A Michigan resident who received a transplant in December died after having been infected with rabies from the new organ, US health authorities have...
Bone marrow transplant ‘cures’ French HIV patient
A patient at the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille could be the first case of someone being cured of HIV in France – thanks to...
Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart
An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for kidney failure patients
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials to transplant organs from genetically-modified pigs into patients...
Large study identifies new kidney transplant rejection indicators
Medical scientists involved in a large international study have identified new signs of kidney transplant rejection that could lead to more precise diagnosis and...
‘Brain dead’ US man awakens during organ harvesting
An American man who had gone into cardiac arrest and been declared brain dead woke up as surgeons were midway through harvesting his organs for...
Probe after patients get HIV from organ transplants
Brazilian health officials are scrambling to explain how six transplant patients in the country’s well-regarded public health system received organs infected with HIV –...
World first as woman’s own stem cells reverse her diabetes
A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells,...
US eye transplant man makes good progress
A military veteran in America, who received the world’s first whole-eye transplant and partial face transplant, has made significant progress a year later and...
UK launches global-first study to ID stem cell super donors
Britain has just launched a world-first study to identify people who could be stem cell super donors, with scientists planning to analyse DNA samples...
Man declared ‘HIV-free’ after stem cell transplant
A 60-year-old German man appears to have been ‘cured’ of HIV in a medical milestone only achieved by six other people, doctors have announced – this...
Cancer patient third US person to have larynx transplant
American Marty Kedian, who had been without a voice for years and unable to swallow and breathe normally after dozens of surgeries for a...
Second person to receive transplanted pig kidney dies
American patient Lisa Pisano, who received a pig kidney transplant along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating, died this week, her...
First US kidney transplant on awake patient
Transplant surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Illinois have performed what is thought to be the first awake kidney transplant in the US, with patient...
Pig kidney removed from transplant patient after complications
A US transplant patient had a genetically engineered pig kidney removed last week after it started losing function – 47 days after the surgery –...
Transplants of any organ may trigger personality changes – US study
Findings from a recent online survey suggest that the idea of the heart containing the very “essence” of a person might be more than...
ABO-incompatible kidney transplants a first for South Africa
For people with end-stage chronic kidney disease in South Africa, deceased donor organ transplant has, until now, been seen as the only potential lifeline,...
World-first plasma exchange for double hand transplant patient
A British woman who had a double hand transplant five years ago has undergone pioneering treatment – in a world first – to prevent...
First pig kidney transplant patient dies
Almost two months after making history as the first human to undergo a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, American Richard Slayman (62) has died.
Slayman,...
First combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been performed on an American woman.
Lisa...
Nephrologists urge early screening for high-risk kidney disease
South African experts believe it is crucial to get the balance right between scaling up kidney dialysis capacity and investing in transplantation, and called...
Pig kidney transplant patient discharged from hospital
The recipient of the world’s first pig kidney transplant was discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital last week, nearly two weeks after the surgery, to continue his...
US team performs first pig-to-human kidney transplant
An American man with end-stage renal disease has become the first person to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, marking huge...
Organ harvesting syndicates exploit Kenyan youth
Poverty is driving young men to sell their kidneys to organ harvesting syndicates in Kenya, with one man saying he earned nearly US$1 000...
World’s first human eyeball transplant
American surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant – although it’s too...
Man survives a day without lungs, thanks to breast implants
In an innovative procedure recently, the diseased lungs of a 34-year-old American man were completely removed from his body, an “artificial lung” did their...
Pig-heart transplant patient dies
The US man who had received a new heart from a genetically modified pig nearly six week ago died on Monday, University of Maryland...
UK girl gets kidney transplant without lifelong drugs
A “reprogrammed” immune system, thanks to a stem cell transplant from her mother, means an eight-year-old girl in Britain is spared the ordeal of...
Kidneys from dying newborns could save more lives, experts say
While some countries – like Britain and America – carry out a few transplants each year using kidneys from babies who died during or...
Second pig-into-human heart transplant in US
Baltimore surgeons have transplanted the heart of a genetically altered pig into a man with terminal heart disease who had no other hope for...
Pig kidney functions in brain-dead man’s body
A pig’s kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man is still functioning normally after more than a month, a critical step towards an operation the...
First UK womb transplant with donated uterus
In the first British case of its kind, surgeons carried out a womb transplant on a woman with a rare condition who received a uterus donated...
Donor liver protects heart transplant in US dual organ surgery
In a historic surgical procedure, an American patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her...
Higher mortality in heart transplants from Covid donors, analysis finds
Adult heart transplant recipients from donors with active Covid-19 infection had higher mortality at six and 12 months than those with transplants from donors...
Scientists a step closer to building artificial heart for human transplantation
Heart disease is deadly, in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself after injury. That is why tissue engineering, ultimately including the...
Kidneys infected with hepatitis C can be safely transplanted
Kidneys from deceased donors with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can be safely transplanted into non-infected recipients when a regimen of direct-acting antiviral therapies...
'Piggy-backing' extends human lung survival and healing
A Vanderbilt and Columbia universities team extended the current six-hour window for human lungs outside the body to 24, as well as triggered damaged...
Liver perfusion could save 7 in 10 rejected donor livers
A major study investigating the effectiveness of liver perfusion as a technique to improve the function of donor livers that would have otherwise been...
New cell therapy prevents immunosuppression-related side effects
A large international study coordinated by University Hospital Regensburg and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has demonstrated the safety of new cell therapy approaches for...