April 15, 2021

Q&A: Returning to school, post-transplant

As schools across the country grapple with what a safe reopening looks like, many families are also struggling to weigh the risk of virus exposure at school with the benefits

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April 15, 2021

U.S. surgeons perform successful “COVID to COVID” double-lung transplant (Video)

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully transplanted both lungs on a COVID-19 patient using them from a donor who previously recovered from the virus. Dr. Samuel Kim, a thoracic

April 14, 2021

Brownsville girl thankful for kidney transplant at Driscoll Children’s Hospital

CORPUS CHRISTI – A Brownsville girl is thankful she received a life-saving kidney transplant at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Valeria Ramirez, 10, began dialysis at Driscoll Children’s Valley Dialysis Center in McAllen

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April 14, 2021

Community Hospital Nurse Earns Prestigious Bone Marrow Transplant Certification

Posted: Mar 26, 2021 / 11:10 AM MDT / Updated: Mar 26, 2021 / 11:10 AM MDT MESA COUNTY, Colo. — Katie Van Der Merwe, BSN, OCN, BMTCN, oncology nurse with

April 14, 2021

Capital Health and Temple University Hospital Announce Affiliation for Liver Transplant and Advanced Surgical Services

"Temple Health is a nationally recognized leader in health care and the perfect partner to complement the innovative surgical services offered at Capital Health, such as liver auto-transplant surgery, bloodless

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March 31, 2021

Tampa General Hospital and USF Health Team First in the West Florida Region to Successfully Perform a Combined Heart-Liver Transplant

"Mr. Gant's case is unique because his heart and liver disease are not connected. Typically, the heart impacts the liver or the liver disease impacts the heart, but he had

March 31, 2021

‘It’s going to save lives’: New type of heart transplant performed in Nebraska | Live Well

Don Sheard had been getting along OK with the battery-powered device that for three years had been helping his heart pump blood through his body. The former drywall finisher from Elmwood,

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March 31, 2021

Social Work researcher advances literature on pediatric quality of life in organ transplant patients

A Florida State University professor is paving the way for social workers, psychologists and transplant teams across the country to increase the quality of life for children who have received

March 31, 2021

INDIA: Apollo Hospitals Successfully Performs Four Liver Transplant Surgeries Following COVID-19 Recovery

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, successfully performed four liver transplantation surgeries following COVID-19 recovery. Four patients were diagnosed with end stage liver disease, 3 patients underwent living donor

March 27, 2021

UPMC Hamot doctor, Carl Seon, M.D., recovering from double-lung transplant (VIDEO)

Carl Seon, M.D., can get out of bed on his own and slowly walk around his UPMC Presbyterian hospital room. These are small, but important, steps as the 51-year-old UPMC Hamot

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