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The world’s first partial heart transplant, performed almost two years ago, has led to positive results. The patient now has functioning valves and arteries that grow in parallel with the transplant. Pro tse pishe Interesting Engineering. The operation was performed by Duke Health specialists. In the spring of 2022, they performed the procedure on a […]
A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world’s first transplantation of a whole eye. This procedure was recognized as a breakthrough in medicine, although it is not yet known whether the man will ever be able to see through the donor eye. The groundbreaking surgery involved removing part of the face and […]
Hematologists of the National Children’s Hospital “Okhmatdyt” successfully performed a bone marrow transplant for one-year-old Dmytro. The boy is struggling with Hurler syndrome, a severe metabolic disease. Dmytro’s life-saving hematopoietic cells were found in a 26-year-old donor from the United States. It is noted that the cells were delivered in 42 hours. Despite the international […]
Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man, and it has already worked for over a month. This procedure is a critical step before testing on live patients. The experiment has not yet been completed, and the researchers are going to continue to monitor the kidneys, reports the Associated Press. However, the result is […]