Donor burden Organ donation places physical and psychological stress on women, especially when forced. As all the doctors who spoke to TNM acknowledged, living organ donation is a complex surgery …
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Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplant patient and surgeon advance organ transplantation with groundbreaking technique
by News Sourceby News SourceIn mid-March 2024, surgeons at the Transplant Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old man with end-stage renal disease. At …
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For decades, Texas transplant surgeon Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr. has received accolades and national recognition for his work, including helping to enforce professional standards in the nation's vast organ …
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Liver Transplantation
‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burned his initials on a patient’s liver | Doctors
On the morning of 21 August 2013, a patient with acute liver failure was on the urgent transplant list at Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham (QEHB). If a donor couldn’t be …
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OU Health’s pediatric cardiac surgery program has been built from the ground up over the past decade. U.S. News & World Report recognizes the program as one of the best …
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Kidney Transplantation
Guy Alexandre, the transplant surgeon who redefined death, dies at 89
by Clay Risenby Clay RisenIn the 1960s, Belgian transplant surgeon Guy-Alexandre risked professional rebuke by removing kidneys from brain-dead patients whose hearts were still beating, greatly improving organ survival rates while also reducing the …
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Liver Transplantation
Roy Calne, the surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant, dies at the age of 93
by JILL LAWLESSby JILL LAWLESSLONDON (AP) — Roy Calne, the organ transplant pioneer who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died at the age of 93. Karun’s family announced that he …