The early focus of transplantation was technical -- replacing lost limbs and teeth, reconstructive surgery, transferring a body part from one animal to another. By the 20th century, the focus had ...

What Is a Fecal Transplant? A fecal transplant is a procedure that places the stool of a healthy person into the colon of someone who’s ill. Your doctor may call it bacteriotherapy. A fecal ...

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after receiving an organ transplant. The patient, who received the transplant at an Ohio hospital in December 2024, died of the fatal virus in January 2025 ...

The heart transplant team at Baltimore based-Johns Hopkins Medicine broke a new record in 2024, performing 65 adult transplants, more than doubling the team’s 2023 total. The milestone also ...

Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed after three hours of cardiac arrest. The appropriate preservation method includes three main components: hypothermia, composition of the storage solution ...

Introduction: Anemia is prevalent after kidney transplantation (KTx) and is associated with reduced graft survival. The associations between temporal changes in hemoglobin (Hb) level in the early ...

Diastolic heart failure causes a stiff left ventricle that prevents the heart from relaxing between beats. Common symptoms include coughing, tiredness, and shortness of breath. Systolic and ...