Share on PinterestDesign by Medical News Today. Photography: Thierry Dessaugne/Getty Images Transplant centers are advising people awaiting heart transplants to receive all recommended COVID-19 vaccinations because transplantation weakens the immune …
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BiVACOR founder and CTO Daniel Timms with the total artificial heart. Image courtesy of BiVACOR, via Business Wire. The Texas Heart Institute in the United States has successfully implanted a …
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Kidney Transplantation
Docwire NewsFirst U.S. Patient Receives Robot-Assisted Double Kidney Transplant In March, a Cleveland Clinic patient became the first in the U.S. to receive a robot-assisted double kidney transplant. 15 hours ago
by News Sourceby News SourceDocwire NewsFirst U.S. Patient Receives Robot-Assisted Double Kidney Transplant In March, a Cleveland Clinic patient became the first in the U.S. to receive a robot-assisted double kidney transplant. 15 hours …
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Diet
UCF Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Impact of Diet on Side Effects of Blood Cancer Treatment
Every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma (cancer of the blood, bone marrow, and lymph nodes). Treating blood cancers often requires stem …
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Study finds patients who receive lung transplants from hospital-based donor care units have better outcomes than those who receive them from stand-alone units
by News Sourceby News SourceCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to examine differences in lung transplant outcomes from organs retrieved from two types …
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Heart Transplantation
First man to receive pig kidney transplant dies at age 62
by Hafsa Khalilby Hafsa KhalilThe first man to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the operation, the hospital where it was performed announced. Richard “Rick” Suleiman, …
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Heart Transplantation
Woman becomes first patient to receive combined heart pump transplant and pig kidney transplant
by ABC Newsby ABC NewsIn an unprecedented procedure, a terminally ill patient received a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also became the first patient in the world to be surgically implanted with a mechanical …
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Black men may be less likely to receive a heart transplant than white men and women
by News Sourceby News SourceCredit: CC0 Public Domain Black patients who need a heart transplant may be less likely to receive one than white patients, according to a new study led by researchers at …
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Heart Transplantation
Black men are less likely to receive a heart transplant than white men and women
by Julia Hainesby Julia HainesErnie Mandel HealthDay Reporter health day WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Black men are less likely to be transplanted with a functioning donor heart in the United States …
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Kidney Transplantation
FOX 26 Houston First infant to receive kidney transplant in clinical trial First infant to receive kidney transplant in clinical trial. A Mississippi couple’s baby was diagnosed with a rare disease before it was born. 4 days ago
by News Sourceby News SourceFOX 26 Houston First infant to receive kidney transplant in clinical trial First infant to receive kidney transplant in clinical trial. A Mississippi couple’s baby was diagnosed with a rare …