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A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the ...
"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.
Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Director of the Northwestern Medicine ...
I'd never been a heavy drinker but had the odd pint with the lads. People often assume with a liver transplant that you have an alcohol problem, but for the majority of people that isn't the case ...
The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from pigs into monkeys, including a pig heart, kidney, cornea, and bone. The ...
"I knew you could give a kidney, but it never crossed my mind that like you could give a liver," Laurie, 41, said. After learning about the living donor transplant process, Laurie decided to ...
There are few treatment options and death rates as high as 50%. Many don't qualify for a liver transplant or can't get a match in time. The new study, which is expected to get underway later this ...
ABC Action News Anchor Lauren St. Germain spoke with a liver transplant surgeon at Tampa General Hospital about why he is encouraging everyone who can to become a donor. She also sat down with a ...
ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan Health Transplant Center broke the state’s record for completing the most liver transplants in a year in 2024, officials announced. There were 131 ...
But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain ...
Richmond-based VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center made history this month by becoming the first center in the United States to perform a fully robotic liver transplant using a liver from a living ...