in Westwood will open a 7,500-square-foot dedicated space Monday for its Blood and Marrow Transplant program.
The space’s renovation started in the fall and cost $2 million, KU Hospital spokesman Dennis Minich said Wednesday. The project was paid for by Annette Bloch’s $20 million donation in the fall, Minich said.
The Blood and Marrow Transplant program had been in shared space in the cancer pavilion, he said.
The program had three Read the rest of this entry »

“He’s doing very well,” said Clive O. Callender, who performed a kidney transplant on the former mayor Friday.
Barry may be discharged from Howard University Hospital as early as Thursday, said Ron Harris, a hospital spokesman. Barry’s donor, Kim Dickens, 47, also remains in recovery, Harris said.
Barry had been on dialysis for several months after hypertension and diabetes wore down his kidneys, he has said. A spokeswoman for Barry, Natalie Williams, Read the rest of this entry »

LOS ANGELES—The case of a transplant doctor acquitted of speeding a patient’s death to harvest his organs led to new national guidelines, but the jury and a medical ethicist say more work must be done to prevent problems during the procedures.
Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was cleared by a jury Thursday in San Luis Obispo in what is believed to be the first such criminal case in the U.S.
The case involving patient Ruben Navarro led to national organ Read the rest of this entry »

Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the nation’s first near-total face transplant, officials at the hospital said on Tuesday.
Three partial face transplants have been completed worldwide — two in France and one in China. All involved using facial tissue from a dead donor.
The clinic’s surgical team, headed by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, provided no details today about the timing of the operation or about Read the rest of this entry »

Nov. 19, 2008 — Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea
transplant that hinges on the patient’s own stem cells.
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was
successful and is detailed in today’s online edition of
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. She’d already had
a stent implanted to reopen that airway, but that didn’t work out and the stent
had been removed.
Doctors got a trachea from an organ donor and stripped the donated trachea
of Read the rest of this entry »

Hospital officials say UC Davis Medical Center has begun the process to move 37 patients to other waiting lists.
According to Dr. Allan Siefkin, chief medical officer, UC Davis has performed 11 surgeries this year compared to 25 last year. The ideal number for doctors to keep their surgical skills sharp is 40 to 50.
Three other hospitals in Northern California perform such transplants, including the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been admitted to a hospital to prepare for a kidney transplant.
The procedure comes as Barry is fighting prosecutors who want him jailed for failing to file tax returns. Barry has said his health problems distracted him from filing his taxes. He has been undergoing kidney dialysis.
Howard University Hospital spokesman Ron Harris says the 72-year-old Barry was admitted Thursday to Read the rest of this entry »

DALLAS (AP) – A heart has been found for the younger of two North Texas sisters placed on the transplant list.
A spokeswoman at Children’s Medical Center Dallas says that the transplant surgery for 7-year-old Emily Smith began Monday morning and was expected to last at least till mid-afternoon.
Both Emily and her sister 9-year-old Shayde were diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, which means their hearts don’t relax like they should between Read the rest of this entry »

Doctors say the woman who received the nation’s first face transplant two months ago has left the hospital in Cleveland.
The patient’s surgeon said she left Thursday night. She is able to eat solid food and breathe on her own for the first time since her disfiguring injury occurred several years ago. The woman’s identity has not been revealed.
A dead donor provided the facial skin and bone that was needed for her 22-hour surgery in early December.
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Hondusky received one dose of Campath, an immunosuppressive medication, during surgery and will now be on mono-therapy — one drug to reduce the risk of rejection. “Mono-therapy has been tried once before in another country and it failed, but we have evidence to suggest that it is possible to achieve this goal,” said Ravindra. “We will be monitoring him very closely for signs of rejection with weekly biopsies, other laboratory tests and evaluations Read the rest of this entry »