transplant
Arkansas military veteran receives world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant
A military veteran who received the first-ever whole-eye and partial-face transplant is speaking out about the life-changing surgery.The recipient, 46-year-old ...
Chicago doctors use breast implants to perform successful double-lung transplant on 34-year-old man
A 34-year-old Missouri man was recently saved by surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who used breast implants to successfully ...
Maryland veteran who received genetically modified pig heart transplant has died, hospital says
A Maryland man who received a pig heart transplant in a highly experimental surgery nearly six weeks ago has died, ...
Dementia’s crippling costs, update on pig heart transplant, and when snoring becomes dangerous
Larry Faucette, 58, pictured at left, was the second person to receive a genetically modified pig heart. Dr. Bartley Griffith, ...
Surgeons give update on patient a month after experimental pig heart transplant: ‘Now I have hope’
One month after a Maryland man received an experimental pig heart transplant, the patient is doing well and shows no ...
Pig kidney still functioning in brain-dead man 6 weeks after transplant surgery: ‘Extremely encouraging’
A pig kidney is still functioning correctly more than six weeks after surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York ...
FDA approves first fecal transplant pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste
U.S. health officials on Wednesday approved the first pill made from healthy bacteria found in human waste to fight dangerous ...
Spanish hospital carries out lung transplant using 4-armed robot dubbed ‘Da Vinci’
A Spanish hospital carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route ...