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Synopsis: Health: Health generale: Medical procedure: Transplant:

what it sees as a foreign object, leading to infections or defective transplants after these operations.

problem-prone bone transplants are statistics from the past. Countless patients, present and future, hope so too.

#Lung'filtering'technique can reduce transplant rejection Lung transplantation is often the only option for patients with end stage lung disease,

When waiting list patients are lucky enough to receive a transplant, they need lifelong immunosuppression to prevent their own immune system from destroying the transplanted organ, a process called acute rejection.

This can repair an organ that would normally be turned down for transplant. Given that 80%of donor lungs are used currently not,

Dr James Fildes, from the University's Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research and the Transplant Centre at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, led the study.

"All of this makes lung transplant recipients particularly susceptible to rejection, so they require continuous immunosuppression,

and transplanted them either using the normal transplant method or after three hours of EVLP,

whereas in the normal transplant method, all the lungs showed signs of severe rejection. EVLP is becoming an established technique,

"Patricia Moore, 63, from Oswestry was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2011 and received a transplant in 2014.

#Researchers Smash Records with Pig-to-Primate Organ transplants With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant,

Rothblatt says her goal is to create n unlimited supply of transplantable organsand to carry out the first successful pig-to-human lung transplant within a few years.

Some researchers agree with Rothblatt that the latest results mean pig-to-human transplants are plausible. think it possible;

In fact, thousands of people die each year while waiting on transplant lists. Donated human organs are scarce,

leading transplant surgeons have been meeting with Revivicor ever few months to plan what genes they like to see added next.

a transplant surgeon and researcher at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, says a heart from one of Revivicor pigs lasted two and a half years inside a baboon.

The heart transplants were not life-sustaining but eterotopic? the pig heart was attached to the baboon circulatory system

when a transplant into humans could occur. That is because surgeons still need to completely replace a baboon heart with one from these pigs

Lung transplants will be harder, since lungs are permeated with blood vessels and heavily exposed to the immune system.

So far, transplants last only a matter of days, says Rothblatt. She has been financing research at the University of Maryland,

A single transplant surgery costs $100, 000 and involves eight people. Then there the cost of keeping the primates, the red tape of animal regulations,

#Transplant Surgeons Revive Hearts After Death Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to eanimatehearts from people who have died recently,

In at least 15 cases, surgeons in the United kingdom and Australia say they have used the system to successfully transplant hearts removed from patients after theye died.

heart transplants only come from brain dead donors whose hearts are cut away while their bodies are still healthy.

which has used the system as part of eight heart transplants. Transplant surgeons recognize two major categories of death.

People can be brain dead, or they die because the heart and blood flow stop. The latter is

a transplant surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. arm is the way to go with metabolically active tissue. everal small companies are working on warm perfusion machines,

Right now, most people on the liver transplant list die waiting. hen the number of organs wee talking about is huge. he first successful heart transplant,

All eight transplants so far have been successful he says. One patient was identified publicly as Huseyin Ulucan, a 60-year-old from London t

In addition to being a step in the right direction for eventual lab-grown kidneys for transplant, the structures could help scientists screen drugs for toxicity and model normal and diseased kidney function,

Hand transplants have also been successful, but the recipient needs lifelong immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their body rejecting the hand.

Results of hand transplants show that this happens through the recipient's nerve tissue penetrating into the hand

The system could be tested with transplant patients at UPMC later this year. The findings, which were published online in the American Journal of Transplantation,

suggest that it's possible to use the technique of"machine perfusion"with a newly created cell-free oxygenated solution to expand the number of high-quality livers available for transplant,

explained senior investigator Paulo Fontes, M d.,UPMC transplant surgeon, associate professor, Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, Pitt School of medicine,

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