The ongoing shortage of donor hearts for children who need them stems from multiple causes, including a lack of donor awareness, organ allocation issues, and not enough organs that are of sufficient quality to transplant. Currently, new hearts for kids are still hard to find, and they are even scarcer for babies. Infants are particularly hard to match with a heart.
A team led by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has become the first in the world to demonstrate the possibility of using genetically engineered pig hearts as a potential “bridge†to heart transplant for critically ill babies. The groundbreaking preclinical research could lead to a lifesaving alternative for supporting critically ill babies waiting for a new heart—particularly those with single-ventricle heart disease, most of whom currently die while waiting for a transplant.
O método convencional para tratar pessoas com doença renal avançada tem sido a diálise, que elimina os resÃduos do sangue enquanto os pacientes aguardam, por anos, rins de doadores falecidos. Na Mayo Clinic, o cirurgião especializado em transplante, Dr. Mikel Prieto, e seus colegas defendem uma abordagem diferente chamada transplante preemptivo: Rins de doadores em vida estão permitindo que muitas pessoas com doença renal avançada recebam transplantes antes que seus rins se deteriorem tanto a ponto de precisarem de diálise.
El método convencional para tratar a las personas con enfermedad renal avanzada ha sido la diálisis, que elimina los desechos de la sangre mientras los pacientes esperan, durante años, los riñones de donantes fallecidos. En Mayo Clinic, el cirujano especializado en trasplante, Dr. Mikel Prieto, y sus colegas abogan por un enfoque diferente llamado trasplante preventivo: Los riñones de donantes en vida están permitiendo que muchas personas con enfermedad renal avanzada reciban trasplantes antes de que sus riñones se deterioren tanto que necesiten de diálisis.
The traditional way to treat people with advanced kidney disease has been to use dialysis to remove waste from the blood while patients wait several years for kidneys from deceased organ donors. At Mayo Clinic, transplant surgeon Dr. Mikel Prieto and colleagues advocate for a different approach called preemptive transplantation: Kidneys from living donors are allowing many people with advanced kidney disease to receive transplants before their kidneys deteriorate so much that they need dialysis.
روتشستر، مينيسوتا — الطريقة التقليدية لعلاج المرضى المصابين بمرض الكلى المتقدم كانت تعتمد على غسيل الكلى لإزالة الÙضلات من الدم، ÙÙŠ أثناء انتظارهم لعدة سنوات للØصول على كلية من متبرعين متوÙين. ÙÙŠ مايو كلينك، يدعو Ø¬Ø±Ù‘Ø§Ø Ø²Ø±Ø§Ø¹Ø© الأعضاء الدكتور ميكيل برييتو وزملاؤه إلى اتباع نهج مختل٠يÙعر٠بالزراعة الاستباقية؛ Øيث تÙمكّÙÙ† الكلى المتبرع بها من متبرعين Ø£Øياء العديد من المرضى المصابين بمرض الكلى المتقدم من الØصول على زراعة للكلى قبل أن تتدهور Øالتهم إلى درجة تتطلب غسيل الكلى.
Rade Tomic, MD, has joined UChicago Medicine as Professor and the Medical Director for Lung Transplant as of April 1, 2025. Tomic most recently served as Professor and Lung Transplant Program Medical Director for Northwestern University.
Cedars-Sinai is a leading transplant center, with patient outcomes that consistently meet or exceed national averages. One continuing challenge, however, is the need to suppress transplant patients’ immune systems to prevent their bodies from rejecting the transplant.
Of two medications given to patients, one had a much higher success rate in the study
Every eight minutes, someone joins the transplant waiting list in the United States, and just one organ donor can save up to eight lives. Penn State Health experts tell how registering as an organ donor can give others a second chance at life.
In research that is the first of its kind and that holds great potential for addressing a nationwide kidney transplantation challenge, UNC Charlotte microeconomist Glenn Dutcher and colleagues have found significant differences in the acceptance rates among clinicians at the same transplant centers, and also among centers.
Chris McCain was dying. He knew it. His wife, daughter and son also knew it. Years ago, at age 37, Chris had undergone a double lung transplant, but now those lungs were failing.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles’ Liver Transplant Program has the best outcomes for pediatric liver transplants in the country.
Three cardiovascular experts in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai received distinguished American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) awards during the ACC’s Annual Scientific Session on March 31 in Chicago.
According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the number of lung transplants performed in the United States has increased during the past decade from 1,925 in 2014 to 3,370 in 2024. Last year, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center performed 70 lung transplants and ranked 18th in the country.
A Johns Hopkins Medicine Organ Transplant Story
Los trasplantes de hÃgado se están convirtiendo en una nueva opción de tratamiento para algunos pacientes con cáncer colorrectal cuyos cánceres se han diseminado al hÃgado y no son elegibles para otros tipos de cirugÃa. Este enfoque innovador ha traÃdo esperanza a los pacientes con cáncer colorrectal que, de otro modo, a menudo enfrentan un pronóstico sombrÃo.
Os transplantes de fÃgado estão se tornando uma nova opção de tratamento para alguns pacientes com câncer colorretal cujos cânceres se espalharam para o fÃgado e não são elegÃveis para outros tipos de cirurgia. Essa abordagem inovadora tem trazido esperança para pacientes com câncer colorretal que, de outra forma, costumam enfrentar um prognóstico sombrio.
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