In Lyon, an innovative transplant for patients with type 1 diabetes
At the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, surgeons carried out a simultaneous kidney and pancreatic islet transplant, which contains insulin-producing ...
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The patient had lost his limbs in an electrocution: a double arm and shoulder transplant performed in Lyon
The intervention, which lasted 15 hours, was carried out on a 48-year-old Icelander who had lost both his arms following ...
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Transplants, collateral victims of the pandemic
In 2020, organ transplant activity fell by almost 16% compared to 2019, resulting in more than 48,000 years of life ...
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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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Kidney transplant: activity in dotted lines during the second wave
Suspended during the first confinement, kidney transplants are maintained during the new epidemic peak. But the reality is that, in ...
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There are fewer and fewer kidney transplants with living donors
While there were more transplants in 2019 in France than the previous year, the number of living donor kidney transplants ...
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Kidney transplant: vitamin D reduces the risk of fracture
Vitamin D is involved in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus by the intestines and by the kidneys.In kidney transplant ...
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Kidney transplant: he has lived for 50 years with his mother’s kidney
In December 1968, Jean-Pierre Saliège received a kidney from his mother after one of his had stopped working. While 50 ...
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Lupus: what is this little known disease that affects Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga?
Little known, lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease. It is most often manifested by lesions in the skin and joint ...
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Franche-Comté: the ordeal of a young woman transplanted with a cancerous kidney
Suffering from kidney failure, a young woman attacked the Besançon CHRU and the National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents ...
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Organ transplant: a campaign to encourage the living to donate
The Biomedicine Agency wants to increase the number of living kidney donations. For this, it is launching an information campaign ...
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Kidney transplant: women are more often donors than recipients
World Kidney Day occurs this year on the same day as International Women's Day. A good opportunity to realize that ...
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Kidney week: even if 6 million French people are concerned, kidney failure is too often ignored
Kidney failure has been ignored for too long and "National Kidney Week", which takes place from March 3 to 10, ...
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Lupus: Selena Gomez has had a kidney transplant
Singer Selena Gomez has revealed that she has undergone a kidney transplant because of the lupus she suffers from. She ...
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Transplant: Italian surgeons implant a kidney instead of the spleen
In a little girl with a rare kidney and abdominal blood vessel defect, surgeons had to transplant a kidney instead ...
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Kidney transplant: more and more living donors
Thanks to legal and medical advances, kidney transplants have evolved a lot in 2 decades. Developments that have made it ...
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Kidney transplant: the benefits of living donation
The Biomedicine Agency will carry out a national campaign to educate the general public and doctors about kidney transplants from ...
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Kidney transplant: the Toulouse University Hospital operates on obese people with a robot
Excluded from kidney transplantation due to severe obesity, 2 patients were transplanted using a surgical robot. This first in Europe ...
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Transplant: he announces on video that he is giving his kidney to his best friend
A young man has filmed his best friend's reaction when he announces that he is donating a kidney. This organ ...
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Kidney transplant: privileged graduates
Access to kidney transplantation is uneven between educated and less educated patients. Registration on the waiting list tends to erase ...
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