April 25, 2021

INDIA: Covid positive boy undergoes rare paediatric living donor small intestinal transplant

PUNE A private hospital in the city successfully operated one of the state’s first paediatric intestinal gangrene case caused due to Covid-19. The surgery was carried out on a nine-year-old

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Heart Transplants

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April 25, 2021

AUSTRALIA: Heart transplant recipient’s perfect match

First published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 9, 1984. When 14-year-old Fiona Coote went to the operating table about 8am yesterday, she had only a few hours to live.

April 21, 2021

IRELAND: Girl, 7, tastes Easter egg for first time after receiving kidney transplant that ‘transformed her life’

A SEVEN-year-old girl has tasted her very first Easter egg after receiving a miracle kidney transplant that has “transformed her life”. Sofia Corey, of Dublin, spent her whole life without chocolate

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Stem Cell Transplants

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April 21, 2021

UK: Dad of boy, 9, who needs stem cell transplant to live makes desperate funding plea

The dad of a brave Nigerian boy is pleading for help with hotel bills as his son gets life-saving care for leukaemia. Nathaniel Nabena, nine, left Great Ormond Street Hospital on

April 21, 2021

CANADA: How artificial intelligence might change the way kidney transplant patients are treated

A Halifax kidney specialist has teamed up with computer scientists at Dalhousie University to use artificial intelligence to estimate how long a kidney transplant will last. Transplants are life-changing for patients,

April 21, 2021

UK: Artist given a second chance at life through heart transplant hopes latest exhibition will raise awareness of new organ donation law

An Aberdeen artist who spent 101 days without a functioning heartbeat before a life-saving transplant is hoping a special exhibition will raise awareness of Scotland’s new “opt-out” organ donation law. Brian

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Bone Marrow Transplants

Pediatric Transplant

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April 21, 2021

UK: Little Adeline, 4, from Alness, receives long awaited bone marrow transplant

Little Adeline Davidson has finally received her long-awaited bone marrow transplant – and her family hope she is now on the road to recovery. The four-year-old, from Alness, has faced an

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Heart Transplants

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April 21, 2021

UK: Man given ‘second chance with wife and sons’ after life-saving heart transplant

A Sleaford man has been given a second chance at life with his wife and two sons after receiving a heart transplant. Simon Panton had a condition called cardiac sarcoidosis which

April 21, 2021

UK: Hospital continued heart and lung transplant operations throughout pandemic

The UK’s leading heart and lung hospital performed more than one transplant operation per week in the last year despite the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic. taff at Royal Papworth Hospital

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Lung Transplants

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April 21, 2021

ROMANIA: Romania concludes agreement with Italy for lung transplant patients

Romanian patients waiting for a lung transplant will be able to undergo the procedure in Italy following an agreement concluded between Romania’s Ministry of Health and the Italian authorities, health

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