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Woman cancer-free after UK’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer | UK News
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A 32-year-old woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK’s first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea, a trainee lawyer from Manchester, was diagnosed with the most advanced kind of bowel cancer in November 2021, with doctors telling her they aimed to prolong her life rather than find a cure. But, alongside other treatments…
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Boy, 5, diagnosed with deadly rare condition has life transformed after stem cell transplant from umbilical cord blood | UK News
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A five-year-old boy has been able to leave his home for the first time in six months after he received a stem cell transplant made from a baby’s umbilical cord blood which was donated in 2008. Gunner Lewis-Vale, from Shropshire, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder in March 2021, when he was about 17…
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England’s first artificial cornea transplant hailed a success | UK News
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A 91-year-old man has become the first person in England to be fitted with a ground-breaking artificial cornea. Cecil ‘John’ Farley, 91, said his sight was now improving thanks to the procedure, which he underwent after 15 years of suffering from problems with his eyes. The cornea is the clear outer layer at the front…
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Pig kidney transplant patient leaves Massachusetts hospital | US News
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The first patient to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig has been discharged from hospital. Richard “Rick” Slayman received the organ in March in a world first after undergoing a four-hour surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. The 62-year-old suffers from end-stage renal failure, a chronic disease where the…
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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…