First partial heart transplant in a baby is a success
More than a year after receiving the world's first partial heart transplant, little Owen Monroe is doing very well and ...
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World first: a partial heart transplant was successfully carried out on a baby
Nearly a year after the operation, American doctors reported the success of the first partial heart transplant on a baby. ...
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For the second time, a pig heart was transplanted into a patient
A 58-year-old person, not eligible for a human heart transplant, received a pig heart transplant. THE ESSENTIAL A 58-year-old patient ...
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Organ donation: detecting zombie cells could increase the number of available hearts
Researchers are working on a test that can detect the presence of zombie cells in the hearts of older donors ...
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Medical feat: first transplant of a beating heart from a deceased donor
By using an organ taken from a donor in a state of cardiac death, American surgeons succeeded, for the first ...
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Partial heart transplant saves newborn’s life
It is a world first. A baby affected by a severe heart defect received a partial heart transplant from a ...
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Charlotte Valandrey: what did the actress who died at 53 suffer from?
Charlotte Valandrey has died aged 53. She had received two heart transplants and was suffering from HIV. THE ESSENTIAL Charlotte ...
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Actress Charlotte Valandrey receives another heart transplant
Actress Charlotte Valandrey has once again received a heart transplant. THE ESSENTIAL Actress Charlotte Valandrey, hospitalized in intensive care for ...
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Death after pig heart transplant: transplanted organ likely infected with virus
A cytomegalovirus would have infected the heart of the donor animal. Techniques used to avoid rejection would have masked this ...
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A world first: a pig’s heart transplanted into a human
A 50-year-old man, not eligible for a heart transplant, received a pig heart transplant. The operation was successful and could ...
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Covid-19: 25% drop in transplants in France in 2020
Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, the biomedicine agency takes stock of 2020, then recommends "continuing organ transplants of an emergency ...
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Artificial heart: Carmat obtains authorization from the United States for a trial
The United States health authority, the FDA, has just given authorization to the French company Carmat for a clinical trial. ...
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New study offers hope for children awaiting heart transplants
In children, hearts considered to be of “bad quality” would give chances of survival equivalent to hearts of “good quality”.Heart ...
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Cell therapy to repair the heart
Cell therapy, which consists of injecting cardiac stem cells for patients with fragile hearts, has shown encouraging results, but is ...
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Pig hearts transplanted to humans within three years?
According to Sir Terence English, a heart transplant pioneer in the United Kingdom, transplanting pig hearts to humans will be ...
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The Lille University Hospital succeeds in the first French transplant of a heart that has remained under perfusion for several hours
For the first time, a French cardiology team has succeeded in transplanting a heart that has remained perfused for several ...
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Parents appeal on Facebook to find ‘a new heart’ for their baby
The parents of little Antoine, very marked by the death of their first child when he was only 23 days ...
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Cardiac arrest: freshwater fish could be a game changer
Some freshwater fish are said to have the ability to regenerate their own heart tissue. Scientists have even managed to ...
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History (almost secret) of the first heart transplant: the heart of a black man
Professor Jean-Noël Fabiani is one of the few surgeons to have transplanted dozens of hearts during his career as head ...
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An anniversary observation: at fifty, heart transplantation reaches its limits and still projects
The heart transplant is 50 years old. It is developed, especially since the discovery of anti-rejection drugs, it works but ...
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Fifty years ago: the (almost) secret story of the first heart transplant… What a month of December
Prof. Jean-Noël Fabiani is one of the rare surgeons to have transplanted dozens of hearts during his career as head ...
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Heart transplant recipient dies after giving birth
This young woman who had survived a heart transplant died a few hours after giving birth to her first daughter.She ...
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Transplant: heart muscles cultivated in the laboratory successfully transplanted into humans
For the first time, researchers have successfully transplanted heart muscles in humans and only on damaged areas of the heart. ...
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