Kidney transplant
- Health & Fitness (13 Sep, 2007)
5-Year-Old Girl - Youngest in the World with Double Lung Transplant
Doctors had given Mariam Imran five months to live, but the donated organ saved the girl's life with help of the operation that returned her to normal life ...
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- Politics (19 Feb, 2007)
Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs
Several Italian doctors have transplanted to three recipients organs that were infected by HIV. The information was provided by the hospital in Florence. The doctors from the Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus. ...
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- Offbeat (06 Jun, 2008)
NY Plans to Introduce Transplant Ambulance
New York City is planning to create an ambulance that will rapidly arrive to newly deceased to preserve their bodies for further organ transplant. ...
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- Health & Fitness (03 Feb, 2009)
Surgeons Remove Healthy Kidney Through Vagina
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins carried out what is believed to be the first ever operation of removing a healthy kidney through a tiny cut in the back of the donor's vagina. The surgery called transvaginal donor kidney extraction is now considered to be historic. ...
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