September 20, 2021

Navy veteran saves 2 lives with 2 separate organ donations

My mom used to tell me that living organ donors automatically get a first-class ticket to heaven, but what happens when you donate two of your organs? That’s a question

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Liver Transplants

September 20, 2021

Dad donates part of liver to daughter in life-saving transplant (VIDEO)

CARRIERE, Miss. (AP) — Sitting poolside with his wife and two daughters, Rhett Shaffette says he’s already received the best gift this Father’s Day. His 12-year-old daughter is thriving, eight months

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Innovation

Liver Transplants

September 19, 2021

Novel Machine-Learning Model Predicts Pneumonia After Liver Transplant

Researchers have developed a novel 14-variable machine-learning model that may be able to predict the risk of pneumonia following after orthotopic liver transplantation. Findings from their study were published in

Organ Transplant Technology

Tech & Industry

Video Posts

September 14, 2021

KOREA: T&R Biofab: 3D Printed Artificial Liver Transplant Results Published in Advanced Materials (VIDEO)

The author is an analyst of NH Investment & Securities. He can be reached at [email protected] -- Ed. Recently, results on transplanting 3D printed artificial livers in animals were published in Advanced

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Liver Transplants

Transplant History

September 2, 2021

Nevada’s first liver transplant program uses organs with ‘bad stories’

Mark Anderson likely contracted hepatitis in high school during a period of drug experimentation that included sharing needles. But the Las Vegas resident wasn’t diagnosed with the disease until his

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Liver Transplants

Pancreatic Transplants

Pediatric Transplant

August 25, 2021

the Tale of a Rare Pediatric Cancer

Khloe may look like a typical 11-year-old who plays a trombone and loves gymnastics but inside there’s a superhero who has been through medical challenges that many adults would find

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Liver Transplants

August 17, 2021

Ethics Consult: Boozy Athlete’s Liver Transplant Ethical? MD/JD Weighs In

Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we

August 10, 2021

Cleveland Clinic’s Weston Hospital Performs First Living Donor Liver Transplant

On May 10, 2021, Cristiano Quintini, M.D., director of Liver Transplantation at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and Weston Hospital transplant surgeons Samer Ebaid, M.D., Ph.D., and Phoenix Vuong, M.D., removed

August 9, 2021

Tapping into his incredible drive and resolve, Ralph Johnson survives a liver transplant and graft-vs.-host disease

By Ralph N. Johnson - June, 2015: On July 12, 2014, I underwent a liver transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At the time of the

August 5, 2021

T&R Biofab pulls-off breakthrough 3D bioprinted liver tissue transplant

Korean 3D bioprinter manufacturer T&R Biofab has successfully fabricated liver tissues and transplanted them into an animal test subject for the first time. Using one of the firm’s modified 3DX bioprinters,

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