transplants

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

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 …

STATE UNIVERSITY — Penn State Medical Center has suspended liver transplant surgeries at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center while a national regulator conducts a performance review. This was a major …

Forty-seven participants in this study (23 heart recipients and 24 other organ recipients) completed an online survey. They found that 89 percent of all transplant recipients reported a change in …

Familial Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted through bone marrow transplants, researchers say in the journal March 28 stem cell report. When the research team transplanted bone marrow stem cells from …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Could pig kidneys be the key to helping people in dire need of organ transplants? One New Haven doctor says that could happen eventually. The …

The dream of eliminating organ donor waiting lists is inching closer to reality with the advent of genetically modified pig organs for human transplantation. This breakthrough has enormous potential to …

Patient characteristics Baseline characteristics of the study population are shown in Table 1. A total of 8,764 patients were included, of whom 7,725 (88%) received his rATG and 1,039 (12%) …

Wpatient If you have end-stage heart failure, the best treatment is to undergo a heart transplant. The basic steps are well known. First, patients are placed on a waiting list …

It has been suggested that blood donors undergo genetic testing to ensure they do not have the inherited form of Alzheimer’s disease, but some believe this is unnecessary. BSIP/UIG (via …