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Dutch man recognised as ‘world’s longest-surviving heart transplant patient’ after London operation in 1984 | World News
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A 57-year-old Dutch man has broken the world record for the longest-surviving heart transplant patient. Bert Janssen has lived for 39 years with the donor heart, which he received at Harefield Hospital in northwest London in 1984. The achievement has now been recognised by Guinness World Records. Mr Janssen developed flu-like symptoms and was diagnosed…
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Pioneering surgeon Sir Roy Calne who carried out Europe’s first liver transplant dies | UK News
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Professor Sir Roy Calne, a pioneering surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died at the age of 93. Sir Roy died in Cambridge late on Saturday evening, his family said. The surgeon led the landmark transplant operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, on 2 May 1968. In 1978, he became the…
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World’s first whole-eye transplant hailed as breakthrough – but sight not yet restored | US News
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Surgeons have performed the world’s first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors “never expected it to work at all”, patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a promising retina. It has been…
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Girl, 8, becomes first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs | UK News
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An eight-year-old girl has become the first person in the UK to have a transplant – and not need to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. Aditi Shankar, who has a rare genetic condition, has received both a new kidney and bone marrow from her mother, Divya. Because she had a stem…
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Artificial intelligence can now pick out transplant organs ‘more effectively than what human doctors can see’ | Science & Tech News
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Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology can now choose donor organs for transplant with much greater accuracy than humans, according to British researchers. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has put £1m in funding for the AI project, which can increase the number of organs available for transplant. Currently, surgeons examine donor…
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Third person cured of HIV after stem cell transplant, researchers say | Science & Tech News
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A stem cell transplant has cured a man of HIV, researchers have announced. The patient, 53, is only the third person to be cured of the condition using the treatment. He appears to be the fifth person in total to be cured overall. He had not taken anti-retroviral medicine, or suppressants, for four years and…
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Transplant hope for minorities as scientists successfully alter donor kidney blood type | UK News
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Scientists have successfully altered the blood type of three donor kidneys – a breakthrough that could increase the supply of kidneys available for transplant, particularly for ethnic minority groups who are less likely to find a match. A kidney from someone with an A blood type cannot be transplanted to someone with a B blood…
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Fourth patient in history seemingly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant | US News
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A fourth person has been cured of HIV, doctors say. The patient, who is aged 66 and wishes to remain anonymous, was cured of the virus by coincidence after he received a stem cell transplant to treat his leukaemia. Three-and-a-half years ago, doctors decided they needed to replace his cancerous blood cells with a donor’s…