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# Transplant

This year
2023
Woman receives UK’s first womb transplant after her sister acts as living donor
Doctors said the procedure was a ‘massive success’ and the recipient hopes to undergo IVF later this year.
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Aug 23rd 2023, 7:13 AM
Pig kidney still functioning in human patient more than a month after transplant
The research was made possible by the family of a 57-year-old male patient who had elected to make his body available for science.
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Aug 16th 2023, 5:26 PM
Last year
2022
US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
The surgery last Friday took seven hours at the Baltimore hospital.
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Jan 10th 2022, 10:47 PM
All time
Covid-19 patient in Japan receives world’s first lung transplant from living donors
The recipient is recovering after the nearly 11-hour operation.
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Apr 9th 2021, 6:55 AM
'It gave me back my life': Transplant patient urges people to talk to their families about organ donation wishes
Transplants through deceased donors are down 25% on last year.
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Dec 21st 2020, 9:00 PM
'I said, 'Look, I'm not going to let my mother go through that pain again of losing another child''
After losing three siblings to an incurable lung disease, David Crosby was diagnosed himself when he turned 40. The inspirational double-lung transplant recipient and marathon runner shares his remarkable story.
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May 31st 2019, 1:00 PM
'She is a true warrior': Campaign to raise funds for Irish woman who needs transplant in UK
Sinead Lowndes was diagnosed with a rare liver condition just six weeks before she was due to get married.
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Apr 12th 2019, 3:53 PM
London patient becomes second man to be cleared of Aids virus
The patient has not been identified.
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Mar 5th 2019, 7:34 AM
'I was studying to be a fitness coach when I needed a double lung transplant'
Luke Doherty was added to the transplant waiting list when one of his lungs collapsed.
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Jan 6th 2019, 5:28 PM
First baby born via uterus transplanted from dead donor
The baby girl was born in December 2017, The Lancet said.
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Dec 5th 2018, 7:13 AM
World's first total penis and scrotum transplant takes place in US
Doctors hope the man will regain near-normal urinary and sexual functions.
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Apr 24th 2018, 8:44 AM
Michael has had three transplants and is helping other patients come to terms with kidney failure
The former Dublin hurler is also receiving treatment for skin cancer.
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Jan 13th 2018, 6:30 PM
Watch: 'I'm still the same kid - just instead of having no hands, I have two'
Zion Harvey is the first person to undergo a double hand transplant.
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Jul 19th 2017, 2:45 PM
Double hand transplant success: 'The boy wanted to climb monkey bars and grip a baseball bat'
“The boy wanted to be able to climb monkey bars and grip a baseball.”
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Jul 19th 2017, 6:00 AM
'A woman has our daughter's lungs and four boys have the rest of her organs'
Nevaeh Gale-Spollen was just weeks away from her 10th brithday when she died from a brain haemorrhage.
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May 9th 2017, 6:08 AM
'After the transplant, I looked in the mirror and my eyes weren’t yellow anymore, they were white'
Shauna Morrissey has cystic fibrosis and is campaigning for an opt-out organ donation system.
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Apr 3rd 2017, 6:30 AM
'Helen didn’t have a peaceful death, she wanted to live so much'
Helen Taylor died while waiting for a double lung transplant in 2014.
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Apr 2nd 2017, 7:00 PM
'A profound act of kindness': Doctor donates kidney to colleague
Dr Noel Howard said it was “an easy decision” to make.
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Apr 1st 2017, 12:11 PM
'Organs could be grown in pigs for transplants': Scientists eye breakthrough
The study has provoked ethical and legal questions.
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Jan 28th 2017, 7:45 AM
A living kidney donor writes: 'We need to encourage more donors – living or deceased'
Living donor kidney transplants are growing in number here. Donors can be family members, friends or even altruistic donors, writes Enda Fanning.
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Jan 13th 2017, 6:40 AM
Dozens of Indians call hospital to donate kidneys to foreign minister
Sushma Swaraj is being treated for kidney failure.
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Nov 18th 2016, 1:45 PM
'I only had six hours to live if I didn’t start pulling through'
Since 1992, Stephen has had three separate kidney transplants – one of which was a live donation from his sister.
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Apr 3rd 2016, 7:30 PM
'It isn’t like Face/Off': The surgeon who performed this extreme face transplant explains how he did it
The surgery involved more than 100 people. The doctor’s team practiced for more than a year.
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Nov 29th 2015, 8:15 AM
Roscommon man who died tragically preparing for his mother's funeral saved two lives with his organs
Mourners were told at Pa Bowens’ funeral that the lives of a man and woman had been saved by Pa’s donated kidneys.
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Oct 27th 2015, 10:51 AM
'I’m afraid that by the time they sort this out, I'll be too weak for a transplant'
Health minister Leo Varadkar has sought to reassure patients waiting on a pancreas transplant.
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Jul 30th 2015, 9:10 PM
'Beaumont Hospital chiefs are playing Russian roulette with my life'
I’m 38, a mother to two boys, and I have just been handed a death sentence.
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Jul 2nd 2015, 12:30 PM
This man has just had the world's first skull transplant
For good measure, Jim Boysen also got a new kidney and pancreas.
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Jun 5th 2015, 7:57 AM
This woman just met the man who took her brother's face
Joshua Aversano’s entire face was donated to Richard Lee Norris for transplant after Aversano died in a car accident.
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May 28th 2015, 9:08 PM
"If I hadn’t been given that heart my daughters would have never been born"
The Mater Hospital is today celebrating 10 years of lung transplants and thirty years of heart transplants.
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May 21st 2015, 4:24 PM
Gangster in Spain arrested for trying to buy immigrant's kidney
The arrests were made in Spain following an international policing operation.
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May 18th 2015, 6:00 PM
'Me and my wife took part in a kidney swap arrangement and I would do it again'
Husband and wife Karen and Patrick Bradley travelled to Coventry
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Apr 2nd 2015, 12:45 PM
'Everyday I pray for that special person who saved my life'
Annetha Kieran Loughran received dialysis treatment for six years.
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Mar 31st 2015, 6:03 AM
Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver
Jobs, according to a new book, reacted angrily to the offer to help extend his life when he was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
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Mar 13th 2015, 9:38 PM
Poll: Would you donate your bone marrow to someone you don't know?
Bone Marrow transplants can be an option for patients suffering from leukaemia and other fatal blood disorders.
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Dec 16th 2014, 8:41 AM
Over 100 people in one day offered to give this Irish army officer their bone marrow
Paul Giblin has been battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma since April 2012.
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Dec 16th 2014, 8:17 AM
'Luke's Christmas wish is that his mammy gets new lungs'
Helen Taylor, a Cystic Fibrosis sufferer, has been on the organ transplant waiting list for almost a year.
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Nov 23rd 2014, 8:30 PM
Transplants using 'dead hearts' have been performed in Australia
So far three people have received hearts in this way.
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Oct 25th 2014, 4:54 PM
'Exciting step forward' as human embryo stem cell transplant restores sight in patients
No safety concerns were detected up to 22 months after the transplant.
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Oct 15th 2014, 7:45 AM
Woman who received controversial womb transplant gives birth to baby boy
The procedure was somewhat controversial because the womb was taken from a live donor.
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Oct 4th 2014, 10:39 AM
Research conducted by Irish scientists could mean the end of organ donors
New technology uses sound waves to target specific cells.
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Aug 28th 2014, 11:12 AM
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