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Small Pump May Let Kids Stay Home As They Await New Heart
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- May 7, 2024
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A small, implantable heart pump could help children await heart transplants at home rather than languishing in a hospital, according to a new study.
The pump is surgically attached to augment the heart’s blood-pumping action, giving more time to find a donor heart, res...
Patient Gets First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Plus Heart Pump
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- April 24, 2024
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New Jersey native Lisa Pisano was staring down the end of her days.
The 54-year-old had heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, but several chronic medical conditi...
First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
- April 4, 2024
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Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was released from the hospital just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery.
“This moment -- leaving the hospital today...
Doctor Gets First U.S. Lung-Liver Transplant for Advanced Lung Cancer
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- March 28, 2024
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Dr. Gary Gibbon didn't have long to live.
A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently d...
Black Men Less Likely to Receive Heart Transplants Than White Men or Women
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
- March 27, 2024
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The odds in the United States that a well-functioning donor heart will go to a Black man are lower than for white transplant candidates of either gender, new research shows.
The news is troubling, since "Black patients have a two to three times greater risk of developing...
Surgeons Implant Pig Kidney Into First Living Human Patient
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- March 21, 2024
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THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 (HealthDay news) -- For the first time ever, doctors have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human suffering from advanced kidney failure.
Such pig kidneys, altered to lower the risk of rejection and disease, have been successful...
Race, Ethnicity Plays Role in Liver Transplant Survival
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- March 14, 2024
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Researchers hope findings from a new study of liver transplant patients will lead to improved interventions for those from racial and ethnic minority groups.
The study -- led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- found the risk of dying while wait...
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Be Lifesaver for Folks Needing New Kidneys
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- March 13, 2024
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Weight-loss surgery may help patients struggling with obesity and kidney failure become eligible for a lifesaving transplant, researchers report.
Obesity is a key reason why some kidney patients are turned down for a transplant.
But weight-loss surgery "not only he...
Treatment Used on Donated Hearts May Be Useless, Even Harmful: Study
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- December 1, 2023
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A technique doctors use to preserve donated organs is actually doing no good, and might even be harming the organs, a new study reports.
Physicians routinely dose deceased organ donors with thyroid hormones, in a bid to preserve heart function and keep the donors' organs...
Man Maimed by Electric Shock Receives First-Ever Face Transplant That Includes New Eye
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- November 9, 2023
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An Arkansas man maimed by a massive electrical shock to his face has successfully received the world's first whole-eye and partial face transplant.
In a 21-hour surgery performed in May, a NYU Langone Health surgical team transplanted an entire left eye and the portion o...
Double-Lung Transplant, Breast Implants Save Life of Man Who Battled Vaping-Linked Illness
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- November 8, 2023
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“Davey” Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia.
Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung transplant… and a set of DD breast implants.
Doctors ...
Second Person to Receive Pig Heart Dies Six Weeks After Transplant
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
- November 1, 2023
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The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died.
Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental procedure.
Unfortunately, the heart had been showing signs of rejec...
Donor's Immune Cells Could Help Transplant Recipients Avoid Organ Rejection
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- October 16, 2023
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A liver transplant can give people a new lease on life, but at the cost of lifelong immune-suppressing medication and its risks. Now an innovative approach to reduce, or possibly eliminate, certain patients' reliance on those drugs is showing early promise.
The tactic is...
Monkey Given Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Still Alive Two Years Later
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- October 13, 2023
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Two years after a gene-edited pig kidney was transplanted into a monkey, researchers report the monkey is still alive.
“We're the only group in the field to comprehensively address safety and efficacy of our donor organ with these edits,” said study co-author
Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- September 25, 2023
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A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease.
The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
The medical team was ...
Implant Can Warn Weeks Early That Transplanted Organ Will Be Rejected
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- September 8, 2023
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Receiving an organ transplant can be a nerve-wracking, if lifesaving, affair, said Dr. Joaquin Brieva, a kidney transplant recipient.
...
In a First, Scientists Grow Human Kidneys Inside Pigs
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- September 7, 2023
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For the first time ever, a solid humanized organ has been grown from scratch in an animal — a first step in a process that could potentially solve organ shortages and save countless lives.
Chinese researchers grew partially human early-stage kidneys inside embryonic pi...
In Primate Study, Antibody Treatment Prevents Organ Rejection After Transplant
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- August 31, 2023
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A new study in non-human primates shows potential for using a manmade monoclonal antibody to help prevent organ rejection after a transplant.
The antibody was successful in promoting graft survival after kidney and pancreatic islet cell transplantations, according to th...
Getting His Life Back: Regaining Strength After a Triple-Organ Transplant
- Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
- August 28, 2023
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Valance Sams Sr. believes that he has experienced "a miracle."
Sams, now 46, underwent a triple organ transplant in the spring of 2023, making him one of fewer than 50 people in the United States to ever receive three new organs via transplantation.
He received a n...
Improved Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplants Mark a Major Advance
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 16, 2023
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Genetically engineered pig kidneys are nearing the point where they could provide a government-approved, sustainable supply of organs for sick humans awaiting a transplant, a pair of new studies argue.
A lightly modified pig kidney has continued to function more than a m...
'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 8, 2023
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Dennis Deer woke from surgery in utter disbelief that he was breathing normally.
He'd been on supplemental oxygen for two years, and “I didn't know what it was like not to have something on my face,” said Deer, 51, a Chicago-area politician and psychologist.
�...
Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- June 12, 2023
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Many transplant centers routinely practice “list-diving,” when the top candidate among potential organ recipients is skipped in favor of someone further down the list, new research shows.
The top candidate is ranked that way based on an objective algorithm using age,...
New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- June 8, 2023
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A new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found — in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available in the United States.
The trial tested an approach that allows doctors...
Cool Storage Could Keep Lungs Ready for Transplant Longer
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- April 24, 2023
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Storing donor lungs at cool — but not near freezing — temperatures can markedly increase the length of time the organs can live outside the human body, a new study suggests.
Lungs stored at 50 degrees Fahrenheit remain healthy and viable for transplant up to four tim...
Debunking Myths About Organ Donation
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- April 9, 2023
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Far more people need an organ transplant than there are organs available.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Dr. Johnny Hong, chief of transplantation at Penn State Health's Mi...
Feds Propose Overhaul of U.S. Organ Transplant System
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- March 23, 2023
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A single nonprofit has what amounts to a monopoly over all organ transplants performed in the United States, but the federal government said Wednesday that it plans to change that.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which has contracted with the Un...
New Lease on Life for Two Lung Cancer Patients After Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- March 15, 2023
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Retired nurse Tannaz Ameli was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer last winter. When chemotherapy failed, her doctors recommended hospice care.
But Ameli, of Minneapolis, had other ideas. She and her husband sought out a pioneering medical team at Northwestern Medici...
Scientists Devise Way to Keep Donor Hearts Viable Longer
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- February 9, 2023
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Doctors have discovered a way to extend the short shelf life of donor hearts, which could hopefully make more of the organs available to desperate recipients.
Valproic acid (Depakote), which is approved to treat seizures, boosts production of an enzyme that increases the...
Massachusetts Bill Would Let Prisoners Donate Organs in Exchange for Shorter Sentence
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- February 9, 2023
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Massachusetts legislators have proposed a bill that would allow prison inmates to donate their organs or bone marrow as a way to trim the length of their sentence.
While some experts wonder about th...
There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- January 9, 2023
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A new way of allocating donor lungs that eliminates geographical restrictions could save more lives, new research suggests.
In early 2023, the current U.S. system, which looks for compatible candidates within a fixed radius, will be replaced by the Composite Allocation S...
Need for Organ Transplants Surges at Big Motorcycle Rallies: Study
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- November 29, 2022
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Once a year, giant motorcycle rallies ride into places like Daytona Beach, Fla., and Sturgis, S.D., bringing hundreds of thousands of people, an economic boost -- and a wave of crash-related deaths.
That means more organs available for donation and the need to be prepar...
69 vs. 70: Bias Against Older Organ Donors May Be Costing Lives
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- November 21, 2022
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The difference between age 69 and age 70 is, of course, just a single year.
Yet, organizations that receive organs for transplant patients are less likely to choose one from the older donor, a
Heart's Electrical Signals Changed in First Pig-to-Human Cardiac Transplant
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- October 31, 2022
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Less than a year after the first-ever transplant of a pig heart into a human patient, doctors are reporting that the heart showed unexpected changes in its electrical system before the recipient ultimately died.
The changes are not believed to have contributed to the pat...
Hearts From Donors Who Had COVID Are Safe for Transplant
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- October 31, 2022
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A person with heart failure in dire need of a new heart may have faced delays in getting one during the pandemic when potential donors tested positive f...
Some Donor Livers Keep Working for 100 Years: Study
- Dennis Thompson
- October 18, 2022
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Some human livers are tougher than others, lasting more than 100 cumulative years between the organ's original host and a transplant recipient, a new study ...
Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryo With Brain, Beating Heart
- By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
- August 26, 2022
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Using only mouse stem cells, British researchers report they have created synthetic embryos that form a brain, a beating heart and other organs.
The stem cells ...
Organ From Live Donor Best When Child Needs New Kidney
- By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- August 17, 2022
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Children who need kidney transplants have better long-term outcomes when the donor is a living person and not someone who has died and donated organs, a new study finds.
"Th...
Scientists Restore Some Function to Pig Tissues 1 Hour After Death
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- August 3, 2022
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Minutes after a heartbeat stops, a massive series of disastrous events triggered by lack of blood flow begins to destroy a body's cells and organs.
This chain of events had been thought to be inevitable and irreversible. Now, a new animal study shows that
Pig Hearts Successfully Transplanted Into 2 Brain-Dead Patients
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- July 12, 2022
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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 pig hearts into brain-dead humans on life suppo...
Good Outcomes From First 5 Years of Uterus Transplants, But Concerns Remain
- Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
- July 7, 2022
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For women who can't get pregnant because they don't have a uterus or the one they have no longer works properly, uterine transplants can indeed help these women become mothers, new research shows.
Doctors Transplant Kidneys to Children Without Need for Immune-Suppressing Drugs
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
- June 16, 2022
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Researchers have figured out a way to safely give children a donor kidney without the need for
Woman Receives 3-D Printed Ear Transplant Made of Human Cells
- By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
- June 2, 2022
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A 3-D printed ear made with the patient's own cells has been transplanted onto a 20-year-old woman, the company that made the ear says.
The achievement announced June 2 by 3DBio Therapeutics of New York City is believe...
Kidney Transplant Safe When Organ Donor Has COVID: Study
- Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter
- May 13, 2022
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Even before the pandemic, the demand for donor kidneys far exceeded supply. That shortfall only worsened when hospitals started refusing to use kidneys fr...
Virus Found in Pig Heart Transplanted Into Man Who Later Died
- By Robert Preidt and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters
- May 6, 2022
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An investigation into the death of the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has discovered that the organ had an animal virus, but it's not clear if the virus was a factor in the patient's death, University of Maryland Medical Center doctors say.
They fo...
Thinking of Donating a Kidney? New Data Shows It's Safe
- By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
- April 29, 2022
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If you're thinking about donating a kidney, new research could alleviate your concerns.
"The results of this study are extremely reassuring for individuals who are considering being living kidney donors. We found that this lifesaving surgery, when performed at experience...
How Too Much Drinking Harms the Liver
- By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
- April 16, 2022
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As Americans stepped up their drinking during the COVID-19 pandemic, liver disease and transplants surged.
Between March 2020 and January 2021, the number of U.S. patients with alcohol-associated liver disease who received a new liver or were wait-listed for a transplant...
Organs Donated by People Who Had COVID Are Safe: Study
- March 23, 2022
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For those waiting during the pandemic for a new kidney or liver, new research is reassuring: Organs from deceased donors who had COVID-19 did not cause infection in recipients and posed no risk to health care workers.
In a study that began in September 2021, the Duke Uni...
Man Who Received First Pig Heart Transplant Has Died
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
- March 9, 2022
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The first person to receive a pig heart transplant in a groundbreaking procedure performed at the University of Maryland Medical Center in January has died, hospital officials said Wednesday.
David Bennett, a 57-year-old Marylander, suffered from severe heart disease and...
Scientists Create 'Universal' Donor Organs Where Blood Type Doesn't Matter
- February 17, 2022
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It's possible to create "universal" donor organs that would eliminate the need to match transplant donor and recipient blood types, researchers report.
"With the current matching system, wait times can be considerably longer for patients who need a transplant depending o...
Hospital Defends Decision to Deny Heart Transplant to Unvaccinated Man
- Robert Preidt and Robin Foster
- January 27, 2022
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In response to claims that a man was denied a heart transplant because he refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said Wednesday that its transplant policies mirror those used across the United States.
In a crowdfunding appeal f...