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Ahead of World Organ Donation Day on August 13, Dr Vishwanath S, HOD & Consultant – Nephrology and Transplant Physician …

The disease, often associated with World War I trenches and sometimes found in refugee camps, has been detected in several organ transplant recipients in Alberta. Bartonella quintana, an infection caused …

Good Morning America Doctor implants artificial heart in patient awaiting transplant A 57-year-old man in Texas waiting for a heart transplant had the bottom half of his heart removed and …

Today, the organ transplantation is one of the well-known medical treatment, but the road to the first successful organ transplant …

Dear Doctors: A close friend of our family is on the kidney transplant list and undergoing hemodialysis. Could you please explain what that means? Both his wife and I want …

Northwestern surgeons have successfully performed a combined lung and liver transplant on a patient with advanced lung cancer. This is a first for the hospital, and possibly a first in …

CHICAGO (CBS) — A California doctor battling advanced stage lung cancer is now cancer-free after surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital completed the first-ever lung and liver transplant on a cancer …

Chicago — It’s an unconventional medical story. Northwestern surgeons have successfully performed a combined lung and liver transplant on a patient with advanced lung cancer. And the patient himself is …

Pulmonologist Dr. Gary Gibbon never expected he would be diagnosed with a lung disease, much less that he would need new lungs. “I had no prior significant medical history. I …