A graduation celebration: Lathrop student endured dialysis, kidney transplant Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Every night for two years before having a kidney transplant in June 2007, Gina Williams, Brandie's mother, carefully attached her daughter, via an implanted abdominal catheter, to an automated peritoneal dialysis machine. The nightly cleansing allowed ...

Columbus Dispatch

Heart transplant giving climatologist Lonnie Thompson a second chance Columbus Dispatch Before the transplant, Thompson tried medications to get by. During one trip, he began to bleed internally. After reluctantly having a defibrillator implanted, he became severely ill on a 2011 expedition to the Italian Alps. He couldn't get enough air ...

Woman With First Womb Transplant Ends Pregnancy, Baby Had No Heartbeat LifeNews.com A woman who was the first to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor has had her pregnancy terminated after the embryo showed no heartbeat, doctors in Turkey have said. Derya Sert, 22, who was born without a womb, had been receiving in ... and more »

Louisiana woman fighting for fifth kidney transplant - NECN.com NECN The same passion that carried her through her first four transplants is present today, as Hastings fights for yet another kidney, and for her life. For more, watch the attached video. Tags: kidney, Louisiana, transplant, britney glaser, Amy Hastings ...

Groundbreaking Corneal Transplant with Pre-loaded Donor Tissue Performed at ... HealthCanal.com Boston – The first successful cornea transplant with donor endothelial tissue preloaded by an eye bank has been performed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston, Mass. Roberto Pineda II, M.D., Director of the Refractive Surgery Service at Mass. Eye and ...

Scottish Daily Record

Scottish doctors close to carrying out UK's first face transplant Scottish Daily Record The world's first face transplant took place in 2005. The patient was a French woman, Isabelle Dinoire, who lost her nose, lips and chin when she was mauled by her dog. Isabelle, now 46, was delighted with the results but later said: “It takes an awful ... Scots surgeons plan UK's first face transplantExpress.co.uk all 2 news articles »

This is Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe barmaid (24) recovering after liver transplant to grateful to donor This is Scunthorpe Dr Rebecca Jones, the consultant hepatologist at St James', said: "Kirsty's illness was very advanced when she was placed on the waiting list so we were pleased to be able to transplant her before she became more ill. "One in five patients on the liver ...

Medical Daily

HIV No Barrier to Getting Liver Transplant: Study WebMD The Italian study, published May 10 in the journal The Oncologist, found that the AIDS-causing virus doesn't affect survival rates and cancer recurrence after transplants among HIV patients with this particular type of liver cancer, called ... HIV Is No Barrier To Successful Liver Transplant For Cancer TreatmentMedical Daily all 3 news articles »

Gulf Times

With transplant technique, patients can be insulin-free - Gulf Times Gulf Times Thoen is one of 48 people to receive a set of groundbreaking experimental treatments at the University of Minnesota, which proved that transplants of insulin-producing cells known as “islet cells� can treat — and sometimes cure — Type 1 diabetes, one ...

Organ Transplant: Friday Concert Will Help Move Organ From Cleveland to Avon ... Patch.com A concert of sacred, Broadway and patriotic music to open the summer and raise funds for a project to rebuild a pipe organ for St. Joseph Church will be held Friday, May 24. The concert will feature the St. Joseph Senior Choir, under the direction of ...