A man received a pig heart transplant: a month after the operation, he feels great

A month after an experimental operation to transplant a genetically modified pig's heart into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the organ is functioning independently and showing no signs of rejection. CNN reported in more detail. In September, 58-year-old Lawrence Fawcett underwent surgery...

Pig kidney has successfully taken root in the human body: it has been working for a month

Surgeons transplanted a pig's kidney into a brain-dead man, and for more than a month the organ functioned normally. This is an important step towards the operation, which the New York team hopes to eventually perform on living patients. This writes APNews. Scientists across the country are rushing to learn...

In the US, doctors for the first time printed an ear on a 3D printer and transplanted it to a patient

Doctors have successfully transplanted a 3D-printed ear made from human cells. It was needed by a woman who was born with a rare deformity of the ear. More about this was told by The Verge. The transplant was part of the technology's first clinical trial, and its success marks an important step...

American surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human for the first time

American surgeons were the first in the world to successfully transplant a porcine kidney into a human. The immune system has not rejected the organ, which is a very great achievement. This could reduce the acute shortage of human organs for transplantation. More details were told by the Voice of America edition. During the procedure carried out in ...

Fecal transplant could be a cure for COVID-19: what is it and how is it done

Пересадка фекалий — необычный раздел медицины. Известный как трансплантация IStool, или трансплантация фекальной микробиоты (FMT), он направлен на усиление иммунного ответа организма путем введения здорового набора микробов в микробиом кишечника. Один из способов лечения — при помощи приёма внутрь капсул с…

An American who received a face transplant first appeared to the public.

Cameron Underwood, 26, attempted suicide in 2016 and shot himself in the face. Cameron survived, but lost most of his lower jaw, nose, and all but one teeth. After that, he underwent several traditional plastic surgeries, but they ...

American for the first time in the world made a transplant of genitals

The American veteran became the first patient in the world to receive a complete genital transplant: the penis and scrotum. The man, who wished to remain anonymous, lost both legs and genitals in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, writes the Daily Mail. The operation was performed at the Johns Hopkins Clinic ...

A resident of Minnesota met with a man who was transplanted the face of her dead husband

16 months later, Lilly Ross first met the man who had her late husband Calen's face transplanted. She and their son Leonard met Eendy Sanders in the Mayo Clinic library. Seeing Sanders, she burst into tears, after which they hugged tightly. IN…

Doctors first transplanted ribs printed on a printer

3D printers come to the aid of not only architects and builders, but also surgeons. For the first time in Australia, 54D printed ribs were transplanted to a patient. The experiment turned out to be more than successful: a 12-year-old man who underwent this operation left the clinic almost XNUMX days later ...

Money to transplant the head of the Russian will give an unknown investor

A private investor is ready to finance a head transplant operation to a programmer from Vladimir Valery Spiridonov. His name has not yet been announced. The investor intends to invest about one hundred million dollars in a unique operation, which the Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero agreed to carry out in 2017. For sponsoring ...

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