Towana Looney of Alabama was able to leave the hospital 11 days after a undergoing seven-hour transplant operation. Her medical team is cautiously optimistic that she will thrive with the new ...

SWOG S1815: A Phase III Randomized Trial of Gemcitabine, Cisplatin, and Nab-Paclitaxel Versus Gemcitabine and Cisplatin in Newly Diagnosed, Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers Liver transplantation (LT) ...

Additionally, an organ transplant may cause genes that control traits to change and express themselves differently. The researchers in the 2024 review wrote: 'Emerging evidence suggests that heart ...

In what sounds like an excellent premise for a horror film, scientists have claimed that transplant patients could gain more than just a new organ. Researchers have been investigating after a number ...

The first transplant was performed in 1939 in Japan with single scalp hairs. In the following decades, physicians developed the “plug” technique. This involves transplanting large tufts of hair.

He was off the radar for a bit, and then we learned he had a liver transplant. After that, he had an episode of hepatic encephalopathy, a brain disorder caused by liver dysfunction. It seems the ...

Werkle, a Fairfield native, is searching for someone who can donate part of their liver to save her life as she and roughly 200 other Connecticut residents sit on a liver transplant waiting list.

[47,48] However, recent work with hepatocyte transplantation has demonstrated the capability of adult hepatocytes to proliferate much more extensively. [49] In several animal models, it was shown ...

In summary, ES cells could be regarded as a prospective and unlimited source for hepatocyte transplantation and gene therapy. However, there is more than one hurdle that needs to be overcome ...