The recording of the last tribute that the hospital paid to the baby after suffering brain death moved Internet users. By: Paulina Flores DIC. 08. 2023 The reason this dad danced with his daughter in a hospital will move you to tears Add us to your home screen to visit us easier and faster Add … Read more
Riyadh – King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh is an unprecedented medical achievement. Robotic total liver transplantation was performed. This type of surgery is the first in the world. Successful transplantation was performed in a 60-year-old Saudi patient with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Executive Director, Center of … Read more
La Paz, Baja California Sur (OEM-Informex).- With the participation of dozens of citizens, the Ministry of Health of Baja California Sur developed a walk on the boardwalk of La Paz with the purpose of raising awareness in society about the donation of organs and tissues for transplant purposes that allows giving life, after life. It … Read more
It can’t be easy getting an organ transplant, especially for a kidney. The wait is long in hospitals and you may still not achieve that long-awaited operation. For this reason, when it is necessary, it is the same loved ones or close friends who are willing to donate their organs in order to save his … Read more
In the middle of a night out, 28-year-old James Howard-Jones received a severe blow to the head that left him in a coma for more than a year. According to the Crown Court of the town of Gloucester (United Kingdom) the young man was beaten by Ben Davies, 24, during the night of April 24, … Read more
Isobel began to travel around the world to fulfill her husband’s last wish. (Picture/hearttransplantjourney_IG, the same below) Isobel Barnes, a 22-year-old young girl in the UK, married her 12-year-old boyfriend Luke (Luke Barnes) after they met for one year, but the other party suffered from cardiomyopathy and was waiting for a transplant. Unfortunately, she passed … Read more
Duke Health researchers have found that reanimated hearts could potentially increase the number of donor organs by 30%. Heart transplants traditionally occur when doctors identify that the patient has no brain function after a catastrophic injury resulting in brain-death. The body is kept on a ventilator, which keeps the heart beating and organs oxygenated until … Read more
MEXICO.- Last Saturday, there was an avalanche of messages on social networks in support of Mariana Pechir, a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the head by her ex-boyfriend’s current partner. The young woman’s family made the decision to donate her organs and tissues. Pechir was treated at the General Hospital of Querétaro, where she … Read more
Burgos will host the XXXVII National Congress of Transplant Coordinators from May 16 to 18, which will bring together more than 150 attendees, and during which some of the most current issues in transplant coordination will be reviewed, such as donation in asystole, the donation after the process of helping to die, and the contraindications … Read more
NEW YORK — New York has new legislation that allows people to be reimbursed for the costs of kidney and liver donations, the nation’s first state program of its kind. This is thanks to the signing of legislation Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul (S.1594/A.146A) enacting New York State’s Living Donor Support Act. “There is no … Read more