Transplantation
Orthopaedic surgeons at NHS Golden Jubilee have performed the first meniscal transplant on a patient in Scotland.
Scientists revitalized cells in the bodies of dead pigs.
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Surgeons successfully transplanted pig hearts into brain-dead patients, advancing toward the next stage of FDA trials.
Researchers successfully transplanted two genetically engineered heart pigs into recently deceased humans in June and July 2022.
A team successfully transplanted two genetically engineered pig hearts into recently deceased humans in June and July, marking the latest advances toward addressing the nationwide organ shortage and developing a clinical protocol that would provide an alternative supply of organs for people with life-threatening heart disease.
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 -- Genetically altered pig hearts could soon become a viable transplantation alternative for people with life-threatening heart disease, new experiments show. A team at NYU Langone Health has successfully transplanted two such...
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A ghost-like shell of a pig's heart, infused with beating human stem cells, is edging closer to human clinical trials for heart transplants.
A multidisciplinary research team has succeeded in doing something during a treatment attempt that had never been achieved in the history of medicine until now: it treated an originally damaged human liver in a machine for three days outside of a body and then implanted the recovered organ into a cancer patient. One year later, the patient is doing well.
Uday R. Popat, MD, spoke about where he sees future research efforts headed regarding post-transplant cyclophosphamide to prevent graft-vs-host disease for patients with acute myeloid leukemia after transplant and how these results could impact the standard of care.
After a series of medical breakthroughs, will these animals solve the global shortage of organs?
A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the University of Maryland Medical Center said Wednesday.
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David Bennett Sr. had received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a procedure that may yet offer hope to millions of Americans needing transplants.
David Bennett Sr. had received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a procedure that may yet offer hope to millions of Americans needing transplants.
Doctors hope the pioneering procedure, believed to be a world first, marks a new chapter for transplant surgery.
The technique will soon be tested in a clinical trial.
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Leading surgeon David Cooper talks about the dawn of a new era of transplantation in which organs for human transplants come from genetically modified animals
First published account of successful pig-to-human transplant in a brain-dead recipient opens the door to clinical trials in animal-to-human kidney donation.
The experiment was intended to assess the safety of such transplants, prior to them being tested in clinical trials.
Experts predict that such nonhuman-to-human “xenotransplants” may become a viable option within the next decade -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show. Such histories should not disqualify patients, his doctors said.
David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show. Such histories should not disqualify patients, his doctors said.
David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show.
David Bennett Sr. was involved in a serious assault nearly 35 years ago, court records show.
The first transplant of a pig heart genetically modified for acceptance into human bodies raises hopes for a new solution to donor organ shortages
It's the first successful transplant of a genetically modified animal heart into a human, in this case a 57-year-old man with no other treatment options, said officials at the University of Maryland.
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 -- In a medical first, doctors from the University of Maryland have implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man facing the final stages of heart disease. The surgical feat, known as...
The news: A pig’s heart has been transplanted into a human being for the first time. A man with terminal heart disease named David Bennett Sr received a transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart during an eight-hour operation on Friday January 7 at the University of Maryland Medical Center, which issued a statement last night.…
In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease received a successful transplant of a genetically-modified pig heart and is still doing well three days later.
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Realizing the vision of culturing organs for use in life-saving transplantation procedures is still a long way off. However, the work of Prof. Jacob Hanna on stem cells is paving the way for this to become a reality.
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 -- After nearly dying from a severe case of COVID-19, a young male patient received a successful heart transplant even as he was recuperating from his infection while on a ventilator, a new case study reports. The transplant...
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine sheds light on why a fecal transplant can benefit patients with dangerous recurrent C. difficile infections – and suggests a way to improve patient outcomes.
New research sheds light on why a fecal transplant can benefit patients with dangerous recurrent C. difficile infections -- and suggests a way to improve patient outcomes.
Surgeons at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute reached a historic milestone when they used a lung transplant to treat a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis whose organs were irreversibly damaged.
Lucy is thought to be the oldest child to receive a donor heart that did not match her blood type.
Late last year, a French company called Carmat received approval in Europe for its total artificial heart. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a heart made of synthetic and biological materials intended for implantation into people who need heart transplants. Now, just half a year later, the first US patient has received on of the […]
FRIDAY, June 11, 2021 -- People over 70 are far less likely to be considered for or to receive a new heart -- even though new research suggests their survival rates after transplant are similar to those of younger patients. For the study, the...
TUESDAY, June 8, 2021 -- New research suggests that many people who've undergone an organ transplant do not get an immune response from COVID-19 vaccines that's strong enough to ward off a "breakthrough" infection. In a new review of 14 such cases,...
About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate
About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate
Most people have heard of stem cells, cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the architects of blood cell development and are responsible for blood cell formation throughout the life of an organism.
Young, Black adults are more than twice as likely to die in the first year after a heart transplant when compared to same-age, non-Black heart transplant recipients, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.
Could number two be number one when it comes to combating recurrent Clostridium difficile (CDI) infections?Using genetic material analysis and machine learning, UBC researchers have pinpointed several key factors to ensure successful fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), which have proven successful in treating bacterial infections in the gut including illnesses like C. difficile, Crohn's Disease, Colitis and even obesity, explains lead author Negin Kazemian.
TUESDAY, Sept. 8, 2020 -- New hepatitis C medications are allowing people to receive a kidney transplant from a deceased donor who had the liver disease -- a strategy aimed at getting more lifesaving organs to patients languishing on waitlists. Two...
LAUSANNE (CH), July 2020 — Biologists and bioengineers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have designed a new method for growing simplified human mini-livers. Their process is a potentially important breakthrough in the quest for transplantable lab-grown tissues. In the shorter term, the miniaturized organs will serve as a platform for trialing treatments against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common liver disorder in the developed world. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications The EPFL scientists created a simplified tiny version of the organ, known as an organoid, using bipotent stem cells that occur naturally in the bile ducts connecting the liver to the gallbladder. But the real breakthrough lies in the fact that the researchers developed a new type of matrix that, like a scaffold,
The team was co-led by May Griffith, a researcher at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, which is affiliated with
A new approach in ophthalmology that offers a revolutionary alternative to corneal transplantation has just been developed by researchers and clinicians in North America, Europe, and Oceania.
A young woman whose lungs were damaged due to Covid-19 has successfully received a double lung transplant, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced on Thursday.
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have created fully functional mini livers, which they then transplanted into rats.
Chronic rejection of transplanted organs is the leading cause of transplant failure, and one that the field of organ transplantation has not overcome in almost six decades since the advent of immunosuppressive drugs enabled the field to flourish.
On Monday, 27 January 2020, researchers from Osaka University in Japan have announced the first-ever successful physician-initiated clinical
A new study provides the strongest evidence to date that hundreds of deceased donor kidneys, discarded each year after being deemed not suitable under current medical criteria, can be transplanted safely and effectively.
A new approach to treating people with cystic fibrosis (CF) has been shown to reduce inflammation, which has the potential to reduce the need for lung transplants and lower the risk of death.
Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed the Midwest's first purely laparoscopic living donor surgery for liver transplantation in an adult recipient.
Robert Chelsea just got a new face, and with it he's becoming a face of change for the health care system.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2019 -- There's good news for people with HIV who get a kidney from a donor who also has HIV: A new study reports high five-year survival rates. "A growing number of people with HIV have a need for kidney transplants....
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2019 -- A new "supercooling" technique can triple the length of time a donor liver can be preserved before transplantation, researchers say. The new method -- which cools the liver to 21.2 degrees Fahrenheit without freezing it --...
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that affects the liver and is usually acquired from infected blood. Formerly called non-A, non-B hepatitis, this infection causes inflammation of the liver, sometimes causing serious liver damage.
Keith Castle was the first UK heart recipient to live for more than five years afterwards.
UW Medicine's lung-transplant team, the only such providers in the Pacific Northwest, performed their 1,000th transplant on July 7, 2019. Ten other U.S. programs have reached such a milestone.
For decades, immunologists have been trying to train the transplant recipient's immune system to accept transplanted cells and organs without the long-term use of anti-rejection drugs. New University of Minnesota preclinical research shows that this is now possible.
LONDON (UK), July 2019 — Scientists have identified a new type of cell called a hepatobiliary hybrid progenitor (HHyP) that forms during our early development in the womb. Surprisingly, HHyP also persists in small quantities in adults and these cells can grow into the two main cell types of the adult liver (hepatocytes and cholangiocytes) giving HHyPs stem cell-like properties. The team examined HHyPs and found that they resemble mouse stem cells which have been found to rapidly repair mice liver following major injury, such as occurs in cirrhosis. They reported their findings in a paper published recently in Nature Communications. “For the first time, we have found that cells with true stem cell-like properties may well exist in the human liver,” said lead author Tamir Rashid, M.D., Ph.D., from the Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London. “This, in turn, could provide a wide range of regenerative medicine applications for treating liver
An exciting new study, led by scientists from King's College London, has discovered a new type of cell in the liver. The research describes the cell as having "stem cell-like properties," with the potential to regenerate damaged liver cells and treat disease in the organ without the need for a transplant. .. Continue Reading Discovery of liver cell with stem cell-like properties could eliminate need for organ transplants Category: Medical Tags: Kings College Liver disease Organ donation Stem Cells
Researchers have used single cell RNA sequencing to identify a type of cell that may be able to regenerate liver tissue, treating liver failure without the need for transplants.
Researchers at King's College London have used single cell RNA sequencing to identify a type of cell that may be able to regenerate liver tissue, treating liver failure without the need for transplants.
A Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) research team has successfully developed stem cell delivery of scaffold microrobot that can exactly deliver cells to a target body tissue....
Transplanting any organ is, unsurprisingly, a complicated process, but lungs are particularly vulnerable to damage before being implanted. Now, researchers at Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt University have developed a way to repair that damage, keeping the lungs of pigs alive outside the body for up to 36 hours and allowing them to bring the organ up to a transplantable quality. .. Continue Reading Pig lungs live and breathe outside the body for 36 hours in organ transplant breakthrough Category: Medical Tags: Columbia University Organ donation Vanderbilt University
The proof-of-concept flight is being hailed as "a stunning achievement."
The proof-of-concept flight is being hailed as "a stunning achievement."
For the first time, a drone delivered a donated kidney that was then successfully transplanted into a patient, University of Maryland Medical Center said last week. Unmanned aircraft delivery could soon become the fastest, safest and least expensive method for beating the organ transplant clock, the drone developers say.
The ability to use organs from living HIV-positive individuals could increase the supply available for transplant -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A multidisciplinary team completed the living donor HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant on March 25, 2019. The doctors say both the donor and the recipient are doing well.
For the first time, a person living with HIV has donated a kidney to a transplant recipient also living with HIV. A multidisciplinary team from Johns Hopkins Medicine completed the living donor HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant on Mar. 25. The doctors say both the donor and the recipient are doing well.
As pharmaceutical companies seek to profit from the curative wonders of human feces, doctors worry about new regulations, higher prices and patients attempting DIY cures.
Researchers have discovered clues to a particularly deadly form of rejection that can follow lung transplantation. Called antibody-mediated rejection, the condition remains impervious to available treatments and difficult to diagnose. The researchers have identified, in mice, a process that may prevent the condition and lead to possible therapies to treat it.
While several decades of research have slowly been building a scientific case for the efficacy of fecal transplants as a treatment for a variety of conditions, there is still a lack of consensus over the best way to prepare and administer these fecal samples. A new Australian trial has revealed significant success in fecal transplants treating ulcerative colitis, pioneering a new stool processing technique suggested to enhance the therapeutic effect of the treatment. .. Continue Reading New fecal transplant technique successfully treats inflammatory bowel disease Category: Medical Tags: Bacteria Disease fecal transplant Gut Bacteria Inflammatory Microbiome
Poo transplant or "Fecal microbiota transplantation" can successfully treat patients with ulcerative colitis, new research from the University of Adelaide shows.
It's hoped perfusion machines that "warm livers" will increase the number of viable donated organs.
On the last of our 12 Days of Culture, a film about pioneering liver transplant surgeon Thomas Starzl is one of sacrificing family life for medical advance
Last year two critically ill heart patients were facing an uncertain future, but this Christmas Scotland’s first revolutionary ‘Heart in a Box’ transplantees are looking forward with hope.
An oddity of an animal lived and thrived in a lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich in the past few years. On the surface, they looked like normal, healthy baboons. They hopped around their individual rooms, stuffed their mouths with food, and spent a solid amount of time relaxing and watching cartoons […]
She's now almost a year old
A newly published study has reported the first successful long-term survival of baboons transplanted with genetically modified pig hearts. The research is a massive leap forward in the ongoing quest to achieve effective cross-species organ transplantation, and more specifically help the many humans that die while on waiting lists for donor organs. .. Continue Reading Successful transplantation of pig hearts into baboons bring human trials a step closer Category: Medical Tags: Animals Heart Organ donation Transplant
In a world first, doctors have confirmed the birth of a healthy baby girl in Brazil using a womb transplanted from a deceased donor. Here's why that's so potentially transformative. The post The first baby has been born using a womb transplanted from a deceased donor appeared first on Digital Trends.
The cross-species heart procedure brings human trials into view -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
If repeated, the feat may open the door to expanding infertility treatments -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A Brazilian woman became the first woman to successfully deliver a baby after having received a womb transplant from a dead donor.
With the help of innovative techniques, surgeons at New York University Langone Health have successfully conducted a full face transplant.
A team of eye specialists at The University of Nottingham has made another novel discovery that could help to improve the success of corneal transplants for patients whose sight has been affected by disease.