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# Transplant

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Evening Wrap
The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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Aug 12th 2011, 4:54 PM
# HIQA
'Four critical decisions' led to 14-year-old girl's cancelled transplant
Meadhbh McGivern missed the chance for a liver transplant, because a flight bringing her to London was organised too late.
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Aug 12th 2011, 12:17 PM
# Medical firsts
Heart in a bag… and 7 other medical firsts
Hand and face transplants, test tube babies and plastic hearts – a look at some of the world’s medical firsts…
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Aug 4th 2011, 7:00 AM
# missed op
Health Minister launches inquiry into missed transplant op
Confusion still surrounds sequence of events that left 14-year-old patient without timely transportation to London for liver transplant surgery on Saturday.
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Jul 4th 2011, 1:23 PM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know this morning…
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Jul 4th 2011, 8:22 AM
# Transplant
Irish girl misses out on liver transplant
Coast guard was to due to fly her from Leitrim for London operation last night but medics decided she wouldn’t make it on time.
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Jul 3rd 2011, 12:21 PM
# Facial Transplant
Recipient of the first US full face transplant makes appearance
Dallas Wiens, 25, said that the the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was “Daddy, you’re so handsome.”
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May 10th 2011, 6:30 PM
# USA
Boston hospital performs country's second full-face transplant
Surgeons in Boston have successfully performed the second full facial transplant in the United States; the patient, 30-year-old Mitch Hunter, was disfigured in a car accident ten years ago.
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Apr 26th 2011, 4:18 PM
LIVE
Two women undergo hand transplants in United States
A 26-year-old who lost her hand in a traffic accident has undergone a successful hand transplant in California, as has a 21-year-old Atlanta woman who had her hand amputated in infancy.
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Apr 19th 2011, 1:00 PM
# Organ Donation
Seventy per cent of donor hearts exported in 2010
Poor donation rates have contributed to seven out of ten organs harvested in Ireland being sent to other countries last year as they were incompatible with patients awaiting transplants here.
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Apr 3rd 2011, 12:51 PM
# Science
Irish boy's stem cell operation may change surgery
11-year-old underwent groundbreaking surgery on windpipe.
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Aug 6th 2010, 10:48 AM
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