Cardiology

The journey to a pig heart transplant began 60 years ago

On Friday, January 7 2022, David Bennett became the world's first person to successfully receive a transplant of a pig's heart. The eight-hour-long operation by surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, ...

Medical research

Predicting the success of kidney transplantations

It may not receive the same attention as the heart or brain, but a diseased kidney can be more deadly, with effects that weaken the heart, bones, and immune system, let alone the kidney itself. End-stage kidney disease has ...

Surgery

Quadriceps tendon autograft has lower MRI signal

An analysis of MRI images of the tissue grafts used for patients who underwent surgery to repair the anterior cruciate knee ligament suggests grafts used from the quadriceps may be superior to tissue grafts from the hamstring. ...

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