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Transplant

Transplant experiment, where an organism is moved from one location to another


Akdeniz University

Ömer Özkan (born 1971), Associate Prof. Dr. at Institute of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, who performed the country's first full face transplant

Asım Kibar

Mr. Kibar also founded Erciyes University Organ Transplant and Dialysis Hospital, one of the leading organ transplant hospitals in Europe, and was awarded with an "Honorary Doctorate" title by the Erciyes University.

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome

Comorbidities in this study included malignant hypertension (30%), TMA with a history of transplant (23%), TMA associated with pregnancy (21%), glomerulopathy (17%), systemic disease such as SLE or PSS (6%), and malignancy (1%).

Bernard Devauchelle

He is best known as the first surgeon to successfully complete the first face transplant in November 2005 at Amiens University Hospital.

Brian Clay

Brian Clay died aged 52 on 2 September 1987 after a battle with heart disease following an unsuccessful heart transplant operation performed by Doctor Victor Chang.

Bristol Royal Infirmary

Notable former medical staff include Geoffrey Tovey, serologist and founder of the UK Transplant Service.

Canadian Organ Replacement Registry

The Canadian Organ Replacement Registry CORR is a health organisation was started by Canadian nephrologists and kidney transplant surgeons in 1985 in order to develop the care of patients with renal failure.

Canadian Society of Transplantation

Its annual scientific conference, which is usually held in Spring at a ski resort, brings together CST members, representatives from transplant centres, allied health professionals working in the field, personnel from organ and tissue retrieval organizations and others from the Canadian and international transplantation communities.

Choice architecture

For example, nations that require citizens to opt-out of organ transplant donation have a significantly higher organ-donor rate than nations where the citizens must affirmatively choose to take part (opt-in).

Clint Hallam

The hand was amputated on 3 February 2001 by the transplant surgeon Nadey Hakim.

Declaration of Istanbul

The development of the Istanbul Summit and Declaration was derived from a direction by the World Health Assembly in 2004 as it adopted resolution WHA57.18 urging member states ‘to take measures to protect the poorest and vulnerable groups from transplant tourism and the sale of tissues and organs, including attention to the wider problem of international trafficking in human tissues and organs’.

Devaanshi Mehta

She underwent a bone marrow transplant in April 2007 and a top up of bone marrow in February 2008 at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Dow Medical College

Adeebul Hasan Rizvi – Transplant Urologist, philanthropist and head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation.

Ductopenia

Other causes of ductopenia include failing Liver transplant, Hodgkin's disease, Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD), Sarcoid, Cytomegalovirus infection, HIV and medication toxocity.

Education in Houston

It is where one of the first—and still the largest—air emergency service, Life Flight, was created, and a very successful inter-institutional transplant program was developed.

Eran Thomson

He postponed a Bone Marrow Transplant in 1999 in favor of an experimental treatment, now commonly known as Gleevec (Imatinib).

Eric M. Genden

Eric M. Genden is an American otolaryngologist with the distinction of being the first surgeon to perform a jaw transplant in the United States.

Hacettepe University Medical School

On February 24, 2011, Turkish surgeon Dr. Serdar Nasır and his team successfully performed the country’s second full face transplant at the university's hospital in Ankara after almost one month the first transplant of its sort in Turkey.

Hand transplantation

On January 14, 2004, the team of Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard (Edouard-Herriot Hospital, France) declared a five-year-old double hand transplant a success.

Harrison family of Virginia

J. Hartwell Harrison (1909-1984), third great grand nephew of Benjamin V, of Boston, collaborated in the first kidney transplant in 1954.

Heart–lung transplant

Building on his research at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Reitz performed the first successful heart–lung transplant on Mary Gohlke in 1981 at Stanford Hospital.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Georges Mathé, a French oncologist, performed the first European bone marrow transplant in 1959 on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow had been damaged by irradiation caused by a Criticality accident at the Vinča Nuclear Institute, but all of these transplants were rejected.

History of Singapore General Hospital

In 2000, SGH carried out its first lung transplant together with personnel from the National Heart Centre and National Cancer Centre.

J. Madison Wright Morris

The then fifteen-year-old was on the donor waiting list for a short term before she was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic in March 2000, where she received the transplant.

Jake Adelstein

In 2005, Adelstein found online evidence that an alleged crime boss named Tadamasa Goto had received a liver transplant in the United States.

Jean-Michel Dubernard

Dr. Dubernard is most famous for performing the first successful hand transplant on Clint Hallam on 23 September 1998, the first successful double hand transplant shortly thereafter (but not announced until 14 January 2004), and assisting Prof. Bernard Devauchelle perform the first partial face transplant on Isabelle Dinoire on 27 November 2005.

Jeunes Agape

Ian (left) was the recipient of Deon's blood donor stem cells in a successful transplant procedure to treat aplastic anemia conducted by the United States National Institutes of Health.

Kidney transplantation

At least four professional athletes have made a comeback to their sport after receiving a transplant: New Zealand rugby union player Jonah Lomu, German-Croatian Soccer Player Ivan Klasnić, and NBA basketballers Sean Elliott and Alonzo Mourning.

Lisa Oz

Her father was a surgeon who was on the team that performed the first heart transplant in America in 1968 with doctors Michael E. DeBakey and Denton Cooley at The Texas Heart Institute.

Magna Graecia

The most important cultural transplant was the Chalcidean/Cumaean variety of the Greek alphabet, which was adopted by the Etruscans; the Old Italic alphabet subsequently evolved into the Latin alphabet, which became the most widely used alphabet in the world.

Manilla, New South Wales

Fiona Coote born 1970 - In 1984 Fiona Coote aged 14, became Australia's second and also its youngest heart transplant recipient.

Mart, Texas

E. Donnall Thomas, 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine who showed that it was possible to transplant bone marrow to save the lives of patients dying from blood cancer and other blood disorders.

Maxie Jones

In 2005, Kirsten Storms assumes the role of Maxie as the character faces complications with her heart transplant.

Miranda Bailey

Her professional confidence was shaken when Izzie Stevens cut Denny Duquette's LVAD wire and Denny subsequently died after his heart transplant; Bailey felt that she wasn't in control of her interns, and that the incident was ultimately her fault.

Not Cancer

Thirteen interrupts a college class to confirm the math instructor, Apple, had a corneal transplant five years ago, then informs her that four other people who received a transplant from the same donor died.

Onygenales

The Onygenales are important as emerging human pathogens because of the rising rates of immunosuppression due to live-organ transplant, HIV/AIDS, and autoimmune disorders such as Lupus erythematosus.

Peter Najarian

Najarian grew up in Minnesota, the son of famous transplant surgeon John Najarian.

PTLD

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, types of lymphomas affecting transplant patients

Shais Taub

He has compared his work to that of Abraham J. Twerski, another Hasidic rabbi who has written extensively on addiction and who is also a Milwaukee transplant to Pittsburgh.

Shirley Washington

Wonder Woman - Women of Transplant Island (1973) TV episode - Maggie

Tejaswini Prakash

Tejaswini made her foray into mainstream commercial cinema in 2007 with Savi Savi Nenapu, where she played a heart transplant patient who has received the heart of the protagonist's dead wife.

The Creation of the Humanoids

Scientist Dr. Raven (Doolittle) has developed a technique called a "thalamic transplant", which transfers the memories and personality of a recently deceased human into a robotic replica of that person.

Transplant rejection

The first successful organ transplant, performed in 1954 by Joseph Murray, involved identical twins, and so no rejection was observed.

UC Irvine Medical Center

Ms. Irvine, who had liver and kidney disease, had 95 organs offered for transplant by the United Network for Organ Sharing during her stay at UCI.

US Microbics

Robinson’s application of microbic technology for the hospitality industry ranged from the pioneering cleanout of the fuel holding tanks on the RMS Queen Mary during its "transplant" as a Long Beach tourist attraction in the 70’s, to the grease trap maintenance for odor and grease buildup at the world famous Pea Soup Anderson Restaurant (in Buellton, California), to the Buellton Wild Animal Park’s odor and runoff control.

Wain McFarlane

On March 10, 2007, Soul Asylum, Cyndi Lauper, Mint Condition, and Lifehouse hosted a benefit concert to raise money for his kidney transplant.


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