Three-year-old Chinese woman Han Han became the first patient to receive a new skull created using 3D printing technology. According to doctors, without the operation the child would not have survived until the fall. Since birth, the girl suffered from hydrocephalus, a rather rare disease that results in impaired outflow of fluid...

The last few years in Israel, much attention has been paid to the topic of donation and transplantation, but the problem of the lack of organs for transplantation is still very acute. Liver lobe transplants from adult to adult in the world began to be done quite recently, in an attempt to reduce the catastrophic shortage ...

In Texas, USA, doctors transplanted a large part of the skull and scalp from another person into a patient. Jim Boysen, 55, was left with a large open head wound from cancer treatment that could not heal. After the operation, he told the Associated news agency ...

The world's first successful penis transplant was performed by surgeons from Cape Town, South Africa. The nine-hour operation took place on December 21, 2014. In a few months, the patient (he is 21 years old) fully recovered from its consequences: the body accepted a transplanted organ, which adequately performs everything ...