For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...

Australian researchers are poised to become the first in the world to take pancreatic islet cells from genetically modified ...

Recent advances using transgenic animals or exogenous complement inhibitors have demonstrated prevention of hyperacute ... the transplantation of rat kidneys and hearts and indicates that ...

Study examines the gut microbiome of transplanted kidney recipients from the DZIF transplant cohort and establishes a link between microbial changes in the gut microbiome and transplant rejection ...

The demand is correspondingly high: in 2023, 6,513 patients were on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. A serious risk for patients who have already received a transplant is rejection of the ...

Immediate kidney transplant rejection and associated preformed antibodies. In Advance in Transplantation: Proceedings of the First International Congress of the Transplantation Society, Paris, 27 ...

This past fall, I set out to get rejected as often as I could. A healthy fear of rejection lives inside most people, and has some of us in a chokehold. Being rejected is seen as, at worst ...

The 47-year-old Queens resident received a heart, kidney and liver at North Shore University Hospital on Feb. 8, during the first-ever triple transplant of those organs on Long Island ...

I love it, life is good," she said. The 63-year-old spent decades living with a rare congenital heart disease before she received a heart transplant in October 2023. It came just two weeks after ...

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney ...

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after apparently undergoing an organ transplant ... "In addition to the organ donor’s kidney, doctors implanted corneal grafts from the donor’s eyes ...