The first HIV cure case in which the stem cell donor had a single — rather than double — gene mutation is opening the donor pool in renewed cure efforts to make stem cell transplants more widely available. The anonymous patient is the first to achieve long-term HIV remission — in this case approaching 6 …
A team of surgeons in Boston, United States, has announced the successful transplantation of world’s first genetically-engineered pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. US doctors have transplanted world’s first genetically-engineered pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The Boston doctors performed operation on Richard Slayman, a patient with end-stage kidney disease at …
TOPLINE: A collaborative program between bariatric and transplant teams can enable patients with morbid obesity and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to become eligible for a kidney transplant, a single-center study showed. METHODOLOGY: A cohort of 183 patients (mean age, 42.9 years; 66.7% women) was referred for metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) due to obesity, which impeded …