Tag: Transplant
A heart transplant after twelve hours of flight, what difference does it make in concrete terms?
Hope for people waiting for a heart transplant. In January, a heart traveled for twelve hours on a flight between the West Indies and Paris before being successfully transplanted into…
Former international Kieron Dyer saved thanks to a “Rolls Royce liver” transplant
For those over 30, the name of Kieron Dyer mainly refers to endless games of Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) on PlayStation. Because this former midfielder with 33 caps with England…
“My daughters had never heard me speak,” confides the first larynx transplant patient in France
Her husband, she said, “forgot the sound” of her voice. And her two “daughters had never heard her speak”. The first patient to have benefited from a larynx transplant in…
Patient Aaron James: Medical milestone: Doctors transplant entire eye for the first time
An accident victim from the USA a complete human eye has been transplanted for the first time. Until now there have only been procedures in which the cornea was transplanted…
The first larynx transplant in France carried out by HCL surgeons
A surgical feat. For the first time in France, teams from the civil hospices of Lyon carried out a larynx transplant on a 49-year-old patient who “could thus sustainably recover…
Medicine: US surgeons transplant entire eye
medicine US surgeons transplant entire eye A US team of surgeons says they have achieved the world’s first complete eye transplant. photo © Joseph. B. Frederick/AP/dpa American doctors say they…
Pig heart surgery: patient dies two months after transplant
USA Second pig heart patient dies six weeks after transplant Doctors transplanted a pig’s heart into the man in September (symbolic photo) © Imago Images In September, doctors in the…
“I always wanted to be an Ironman”, Cyril Del Pistoia, leukemia survivor, transplant recipient and triathlete
This is the story of a fighter. Even a fighter. Before, during and despite the illness he overcame, Cyril Del Pistoia always did everything “to the maximum”. Three Masters in…
Kidney, intestine, cornea, bone, brain… Who is in high demand? Or impossible to transplant?
Saving lives with one’s own is also a matter of numbers. First, the number of people a donor can help – between 5 and 7 – several organs being most…
“Organ donation saves lives but also allows you to live well”, recalls a world champion of transplant recipients
Emmanuel Gastaud returned from Perth with three charms around his neck. “One in bronze for the 5 km team run, one in gold for the same distance, but individually, and…