An article reporting the first xenotransplantation of a pig liver into a human has been published in the Nature. The xenotransplant took place in China on March 10, 2024. The recipient was a 50-year-old brain-dead man who received a genetically [...]
On May 11, Richard Slayman, the first living recipient of a pig kidney transplant, died. The death occurred two months after the intervention. As we previously published, on 21 March Massachusetts General Hospital announced the success of the first organ [...]
On March 21, it was announced that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) had successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living 62-year-old man suffering from severe kidney disease. The surgery, which lasted 4 hours, was performed on March 16. [...]
A recent study conducted in dying patients, published in the journal Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine (1), was able to demonstrate how the global cerebral hypoxia that occurs in these patients after withdrawal of their ventilatory support markedly stimulated [...]
For the first time, in May a woman with a transplanted uterus gave birth via uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial. Spokesmen for the Hospital of the University of Alabama at Birmingham where the process has been carried out, [...]
For the first time in Spain, a woman has given birth to a baby after undergoing a uterus transplant. Previously, in October 2020, Tamara Franco had undergone uterine surgery at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in an operation that lasted [...]
Replacing organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives each year around the world and create public health benefits. According to the Eurotransplant website, in 2021 there were more than 14,000 people on the waiting list [...]
Getting a man pregnant is the goal of Indian doctor Narendra Kaushik, a surgeon who runs a gender reassignment clinic in New Delhi, who will try to transplant a uterus into a male who has transitioned to the female gender [...]
David Bennett, the first man to have a pig heart transplanted two months ago, has died at the age of 57. The heart came from a genetically modified pig to facilitate organ compatibility and reduce the immune rejection response of [...]
Scientists in Toronto, Canada, have developed a technique that could make organs for transplantation suitable for any recipient, avoiding the need to find compatible organs, facilitating equity in the allocation of this valuable medical resource. The research, published in Science [...]
A pig heart was transplanted in the United States in a patient with severe heart disease for whom there was no therapeutic alternative. It was the first time a pig-to-human heart transplant was successful. Since the end of the last [...]
What happened in relation to transplant programs during the COVID-19 pandemic? The SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic has had and continues to have consequences, not only for patients directly infected by the virus, but consequences that also extend to economic, social, and [...]
