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Updated : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:32:17 GMT
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (AP)
AP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.
Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:58:12 GMT
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Surgeon who did first US heart transplant dies (AP)
AP - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz.
Publ.Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:08:58 GMT
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Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP)
AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart."
Publ.Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:52:06 GMT
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