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America transplanted pig kidneys to living humans for the first time
Doctors at Massachusetts Hospital (USA) have just performed the first pig kidney transplant for a healthy patient.
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First successful pig kidney transplant for brain dead people
On January 20, a team of doctors from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the US announced that it had successfully transplanted a pig's kidney into the bod…
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The first person to perform kidney transplantation in the world died
Doctor - surgeon Joseph Murray, who successfully performed the world's first kidney transplant, died at the age of 93 at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Boston, USA).
Medicine - Health
Things to know about kidney transplants
After organ transplantation in general and kidney transplantation in particular, the body will have a rejection of the graft. Therefore, patients after transplantation m…
Medicine - Health
What if people live with only one kidney until the end of their lives?
Some people were born with only one kidney, because of the disease, they had to remove the kidneys, because they donated a kidney or even cut a kidney to sell for money,…
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The first cross-kidney transplant in Vietnam was successful
On February 7, Cho Ray Hospital officially announced the successful implementation of the first cross kidney transplant in Vietnam for 2 girls from the stepfather and mo…
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Italy: Kidney transplants into the world's first spleen position
Italian doctors have successfully performed kidney transplants into the spleen position of a 6-year-old girl. This is considered the first medical achievement in the wor…
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Great progress in medicine for kidney transplant patients
For patients with kidney failure, waiting for a suitable kidney transplant will be an arduous and painful journey. Unsuitable kidneys will be considered
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The world's first skull transplant
James Boysen, an American cancer patient, is the first person in the world to have a skull scalp implant.
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The first liver-kidney concurrent transplant in Japan
At the press conference on September 2, Professor Takahito Yagi in charge of this organ transplant said:
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Living for nearly 4 months without heart
D'Zhana Simmons, 14 years old in Miami state (USA), lived 118 days without a heart. Instead, she was fitted with an artificial blood pumping device.
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Robot performed the first kidney transplant in England
Two British patients did not need morphine and quickly recovered from the first kidney transplant performed by a robot.