The new “lungs in a fridge” tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.
A five-year wait for a kidney transplant is a daunting prospect for many patients, but one El Paso family found a way to bypass the lengthy process through living donation.After being diagnosed with ...
Older adults with advanced kidney disease are often motivated to receive a transplant but may face emotional and psychosocial ...
Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...
A family in Waukesha is facing the unimaginable as two sisters undergo surgery for a life-saving liver transplant.
Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified a key process coordinating liver maturation and polyploidization, ...
An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two ...
Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...
Half of liver transplants are a consequence of alcohol use disorders," said Dr. Jame Burton, liver transplant medical director at UCHealth. "I'm seeing, for the first time in my career, people being ...