Cystic fibrosis: the innovation that increases the number of grafts
French doctors have succeeded in increasing lung transplants by rehabilitating grafts that do not have the qualities required to be ...
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Transplant: a baboon lives 945 days with a pig’s heart
Spectacular advances have been made in the tolerance of transplanted organs between species. A pig's heart lasted 945 days in ...
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Organ donation: first transplants between HIV-positive patients
A team of American surgeons performed a transplant between HIV-positive people. A first in the United States. Waiting lists for ...
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World record: Englishman dies 33 years after heart transplant
The transplant recipient who lived the longest after his heart transplant died this week. His story gives hope to all ...
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Transplanted faces age prematurely
American researchers observed muscle and bone atrophy in three patients whose faces had been transplanted.The estate is still very recent: ...
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A complete face transplant performed on a firefighter
American surgeons have performed a total transplant of the face, scalp, ears and skin of the neck. The operation lasted ...
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Liver transplant: a Canadian dad faces a terrible dilemma
In Canada, a father donated part of his liver to save one of his twins. The other girl is waiting ...
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Kidney transplant: a patient transplanted for the sixth time in Paris
The AP-HP announced on Monday that a 46-year-old patient who had been ill since childhood was able to receive a ...
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Lung transplant: even more waiting for short people
An American study denounces discrimination concerning transplantation in short people, in whom the mortality linked to the wait for a ...
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Head transplant: a Russian is a candidate
An Italian surgeon wants to perform the first head transplant by 2016 on the body of another individual. The candidate ...
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Lung transplant: can the donor be an alcoholic?
According to a study, patients who receive lungs from alcoholic donors are more likely to suffer from early graft dysfunction. ...
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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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Clostridium difficile: efficient faecal transplantation
According to a recent American study published in the journal Gastroenterology, faecal transplantation would be effective in the treatment of ...
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Organ transplant: “stopped heart” harvesting authorized
To increase the number of donations, the Biomedicine Agency has authorized the removal of "heart-stopped" organs in intensive care units.There ...
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Transplant: patients want to know the medical profile of the donor
When it comes to liver transplantation, patients ask to be informed and to participate in decision-making. This is the result ...
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Transplantation: a 6th successful kidney transplant on the same patient
A sixth kidney transplant was performed in the same 46-year-old patient. This exceptional operation, carried out for the first time ...
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Transplants: living donation up 13% in 2013
With 414 transplants from living donors in 2013 against 366 in 2012, transplant specialists are delighted with this record. This ...
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Transplant: 1 in 2 transplanted lungs come from smokers
47% of transplant patients would receive lungs from heavy smokers. But, their survival rate, 3 years after the transplant, would ...
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A liver transplant signed SB
An English surgeon is suspected of having engraved the initials of his name on a liver transplanted to a patient. ...
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Young kidney transplant recipients forget their difficulties in 18 months
A study of children with kidney transplants shows that they have a good quality of life. 18 months after their ...
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Organ transplantation: what exactly is it?
A new liver, kidney or heart In an organ transplant, a non-functioning or poorly functioning organ in someone is replaced ...
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Kidney transplant: senior donors recover faster
A Dutch experiment shows that living kidney donors over the age of 60 quickly regain their quality of life. They ...
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Donation while alive: 98% of kidney donors would be ready to do it again
Donation of the living is a possible option for the kidney and liver. In France, it represented 11.7% of kidney ...
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More than 5,000 transplants performed in France
It is a symbolic threshold which has just been crossed for the first time. In 2012, 5,023 organ transplants were ...
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Uterine transplant: the first transplants are a success
The first nine women to have received a uterus transplant are in good health. The Swedish team, which is leading ...
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Medical first: five simultaneous transplants on a patient
It is a French first. Surgeons have just successfully performed a transplant of 5 digestive organs in a 26-year-old man. ...
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April 11, 2002 - The results of a transplant in an adult with Parkinson's disease of stem cells from his ...
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A full forest through hair transplantation
All methods in a row A luscious head of hair. Who doesn't dream of that? Unfortunately, this is not for ...
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Boost for living donors
Only a third of people waiting for a transplant are transplanted. To fight against the shortage of grafts, the Biomedicine ...
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