2023-11-21 08:22:14 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 France – the eleventh in the world – Karine, 49, prefers to give her impressions on paper, while maintaining her anonymity. Speaking is … Read more
2023-11-20 15:57:15 After transplants in the United States, Colombia and Poland, France has just carried out its first larynx transplant, allowing a woman to regain her speech. «It feels weird to talk again», comments Karine, who benefited in September from the first larynx transplant carried out in France. An intervention announced last week, and presented … Read more
2023-11-09 20:48:11 Just over five months after surgery, the patient’s eye still shows signs of very good health, including blood flow to the retina. Results that leave experts “stunned,” Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who led the procedure, said at a press conference. “There are millions of people who have lost their sight, and we’re not saying … Read more
2023-09-09 10:23:42 After the recent world first transplant of a pig kidney into a human, Chinese researchers have succeeded in developing half-human kidneys in an animal embryo. Some elements of explanation on the new bioengineering technique. This will also interest you [EN VIDÉO] Organ transplant revolutionized by stem cells? Every year more than 5,000 people … Read more
2023-07-19 14:08:25 Robot-assisted surgery has just experienced a new breakthrough: for the first time, a robot has transplanted a whole liver to a patient! A less invasive and safer technique that the team of American surgeons wishes to generalize. You may also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Could a robot replace a surgeon? Surgeon robots are … Read more
2023-04-29 18:20:35 For the first time, American surgeons have succeeded in transplanting a beating heart from a donor in a state of cardiac death. Already performed for six patients, the technique will increase the number of organs available. You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] A heartbeat filmed by MRI Over a lifetime, a heart … Read more
The Biomedicine Agency today unveiled the figures for organ and tissue transplants performed in 2022. A little better, after two years complicated by the covid-19 pandemic. Despite a year 2022 marked by a triple epidemic of influenza, Covid-19 and bronchiolitis which undermined the hospital, “the number of transplants reached in 2022 is encouraging” even if … Read more
Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City performed a skin graft on a person suffering from severe burns. This is notably the first time that the skin of a brain-dead person has been received for such a transplant. >> A skin graft performed on 95% of the body of a major burn victim, a … Read more