Posts Tagged ‘Donor’

Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation’s capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify.
“A whole new doorway of hope opened,” says Tom Otten, a suburban St. Louis police officer who traveled halfway across [...]

This just in from CNN-
A severely disfigured woman received the nose, cheeks, upper jaw and facial tissue from a female cadaver in the first near-total face transplant in the United States, the woman’s surgeon said Wednesday.
The 22-hour face surgery was completed two weeks ago by a team of eight surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic. The [...]