Tag: transplant
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MEDICAL breakthrough: US surgeons perform world’s 1st whole eye transplant
A team of surgeons in New York announced Thursday they had performed the world’s first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn’t yet known whether the recipient will actually regain his sight. The groundbreaking surgery involved removing part of the face and the whole left…
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Man dies 2 months after receiving heart transplant from pig
Bennett died two months after the groundbreaking experiment
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BREAKTHROUGH: U.S. surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient
For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. The procedure done at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved use of a pig…