Partial heart transplant shows success in first year

One year after a baby's partial heart transplant, two well-functioning valves and arteries are growing as if they were native vessels.

Stephanie Lopez-Duke • futurity
Jan. 3, 2024 ~5 min

It’s safe to transplant COVID patients’ donated kidneys

Donated kidneys from deceased COVID-19 patients are safe to transplant and don't transmit the virus, research shows.

Jim Dryden-WUSTL • futurity
June 9, 2023 ~7 min


Test helps predict who will die without liver transplant

About 3,000 Americans suffer acute liver failure each year and need a liver transplant. Acetaminophen is the most common cause.

Andrew Smith-Rutgers • futurity
March 28, 2023 ~6 min

Kids do best with kidney transplants from living donors

Children who receive a kidney transplant have better long-term outcomes when their kidney comes from a living, biologically unrelated donor.

Tricia Tomiyoshi-UC Davis • futurity
Aug. 17, 2022 ~5 min

Gene therapy could treat eye disease without surgery

Currently the only treatment for Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy, a genetic eye disease, is a cornea transplant. A new gene therapy could change that.

U. Oregon • futurity
Aug. 5, 2021 ~5 min

Black patients are less likely to receive heart transplants

Black patients are less likely to receive a heart transplant compared to white patients. A new study digs into what's behind the racial inequality.

Brian Consiglio-Missouri • futurity
April 13, 2021 ~5 min

Block immune ‘memory’ to limit organ rejection

Inhibiting the innate immune system's "memory" could offer a way to lengthen the survival of organ transplants and cut the risk of rejection.

Arvind Suresh-U. Pittsburgh • futurity
May 13, 2020 ~5 min

Less-than-perfect donor kidneys are safe for transplant

Some 95,000 Americans are waiting for a kindey donation. Now researchers say it's safe to transplant hundreds of donor kidneys that are discarded each year.

Johns Hopkins University • futurity
Jan. 8, 2020 ~6 min


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