[ad_1] The Mexican patient was born with microtia, a rare birth defect that causes the pinna, or the outer part of the ear, to be small and misshapen (which canRead More
Tag: Transplant
Liver transplant success and lifting Shanghai’s lockdown
[ad_1] A patient whose liver was donated, stored for three days in a new type of machine that mimics the human body, is healthy one year after surgery, according toRead More
Liver transplant patient surgical storage
[ad_1] “70 percent in the USA [donor livers] not used. I don’t know if we can save that 70%,” says Clavien. “But it’s exciting to try to save organs thatRead More
American David Bennett, who had a pig heart transplant, died after 2 of them.
[ad_1] The Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced on Wednesday that the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig died two months after the groundbreaking experiment.Read More
Breakthrough Pig Heart Transplant Patient Dies
[ad_1] The first person to have his failed heart replaced with that of a genetically engineered pig in a groundbreaking operation died Tuesday afternoon at the University of Maryland MedicalRead More
Breakthrough Pig Heart Transplant Patient Has Criminal Record
[ad_1] A sick Maryland man who received the heart of a pig last week in a pioneering transplant procedure He has a criminal record for an attack 34 years agoRead More
Kidney Transplant Specialist Dr. Barbara Murphy Dies at 56
[ad_1] A leading nephrologist specializing in advanced research focused on predicting and diagnosing kidney transplant outcomes, Dr. Barbara Murphy died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, where she hasRead More