"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants. Researchers at Xijing Hospital in China say a pig kidney transplant recipient continues to recover ...

They decided to work with recently removed but still live ... transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen and prepared the animal for the surgery. At 10:30, they sewed the ...

Washington (AFP) – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman ... acute rejection," said Robert ...

Instead, he opted to undergo a transplant using the bio-engineered porcine kidney on Jan. 25 and was released from the hospital on Feb. 1. "As soon as I woke up after the surgery, the cloud of ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person.

Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant.

In a first-of-its-kind surgery for Long Island, the Northwell Health Transplant Institute performed a successful three-organ transplant of a Queens man who was in various stages of heart, liver and ...

The major function of the kidney is to produce ... division chief of abdominal transplantation in the Integrated Department of Surgery at Mass General Brigham. The liver is a larger organ with ...

Nearly three weeks after the kidney surgery the Chinese patient "is ... That “clouds the picture,” said Dr. Parsia Vagefi, a liver transplant surgeon at UT Southwestern Medical Center who ...

Washington (AFP) – Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in ... the chair of surgery and director of the hospital's transplant institute. He added: "What triggered the rejection ...