transplants
New technology preserves donor hearts for transplants | Southcltweekly
CHARLOTTE – Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s heart transplant team is using new technology to keep hearts viable while being transported to a waiting heart transplant recipient. The portable technology, called the TransMedics Organ Care System, expands the amount of time a donated heart can be suitable for transplant, helping make more donated …
Machine ‘could quadruple’ heart and lung transplants
Image copyright Aaron Green Image caption Aaron Green (right) said his heart and lung transplant was “incredible” The number of heart and lung transplants could quadruple thanks to a “reanimation” machine used in a pioneering operation, a hospital says. The device, developed at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, managed to pump oxygenated blood into both …
A Man Suffering From Leukaemia Has Been on a Quest to Make Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplants Safer
Simply put, Leukaemia is a kind of cancer that results in the abnormal production of white blood cells in the body. The only successful treatment that had been known for it is chemotherapy, which keeps it under check. But the recent medical developments have witnessed the use of cord blood stem cell treatment for Leukaemia …
Stem Cell Transplants Purpose – Important to Know
What is the purpose of having Stem Cell Transplants? Stem cells are cells that are immature but can mature into blood cells. The process of infusing healthy stem cells into the body system is done by cell transplants. It becomes very much necessary when the bone marrow does not work and fails to produce sufficient …
How Mayo Clinic is using technology to better use high-risk organs for transplants
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — According to the Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA), nearly 3,500 kidneys, donated with the potential to help patients who desperately need them, are discarded. It is a huge problem, but why is it happening? ABC15 visited the Mayo Clinic’s Transplant Center to learn more and to see how they are using …
World’s first human-monkey hybrid created in China, scientists reveal
Scientists say they have created the world’s first human-monkey hybrid in a laboratory in China. The researchers, who want to use animals to create organs for human life-saving transplants, say creating the hybrid was an important step. And they pledged to continue their experiments using primates. We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your …
YOUR HEALTH: Banking on kidney transplants for those you love
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ATLANTA, Georgia – Every month about 3000 new people are placed on the kidney transplant list. But 13 people die each day waiting for their transplant. Three year olds Adele and Aubrey may be twins, but they couldn’t be more different from each other. A big difference between …
