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Dr. Jack Copeland Recognized for His Landmark Contributions in the Field of Heart Transplantation TUCSON, Ariz., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SynCardia Systems, Inc. (www.syncardia.com), manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that world-renowned heart surgeon and SynCardia co-founder Jack G. Copeland, MD, was awarded the prestigious Pioneer in Transplantation Award at the annual meeting of the...
Experimental technology could transform field of lung transplantation LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First there was the "heart in a box," a revolutionary experimental technology that allows donor hearts to be delivered to transplant recipients warm and beating rather than frozen in an ice cooler. Now that same technology is being used to deliver "breathing lungs." The lung transplant team at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical successfully performed the nation's...
PHOENIX, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgeons at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today performed their 50(th) lung transplant this year, a remarkable number reached by only a handful of hospitals around the nation. It was only five years ago that St. Joseph's performed its first lung transplant and just last November the hospital reached a total of 100 transplants for this young program. The increasing pace of lung transplantations at St. Joseph's comes as...
HOUSTON, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital announced today that doctors recently performed a rare double organ transplant to save the life of Tyler Nelson, a 17 year old patient with cystic fibrosis. The wait is over for Nelson who has lived in Houston during a 16-month wait for a double organ transplant of lungs and liver. Tyler received those life-saving organs at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on Feb. 29, 2012. Doctors are optimistic about...
PHOENIX, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of Veterans Day, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center announced that a 62-year-old Vietnam War era veteran has become the hospital's 100th lung transplant patient. The Phoenix hospital's young lung transplant program was launched four years ago and has attracted patients from throughout the western United States. Prior to the launch of the St. Joseph's program, many Arizona lung transplant candidates had to travel to California for the...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time in the Delaware Valley Region, a patient has undergone a complex and intricate bilateral hand transplant that could significantly enhance the quality-of-life for persons with multiple limb loss. The procedure was performed by Penn's Hand Transplant Program which operates under the leadership of the Penn Transplant Institute and in collaboration with Gift of Life Donor Program, the nonprofit organ and tissue donor...
National study investigates possible new option to increase transplantable lung supply BALTIMORE, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have transplanted the first lungs treated in the United States with an experimental repair process before transplantation. The procedure is part of a five-center national clinical research trial to evaluate the efficacy of repairing, before transplant, lungs that might otherwise have been passed over...
National study investigates possible new option to increase transplantable lung supply Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center have transplanted the first lungs treated in the United States with an experimental repair process before transplantation. The procedure is part of a five-center national clinical research trial to evaluate the efficacy of repairing, before transplant, lungs that might otherwise have been passed over as unsuitable for organ donation. The results of...
For the first time, scientists at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network have shown in a clinical trial that the Toronto XVIVO System can safely and effectively treat, re-assess and improve the function of high-risk donor lungs so that they can be successfully transplanted into patients. The use of this technique could significantly expand the donor organ pool and improve outcomes after transplantation.In their pioneering work, a team of researchers led by Dr. Shaf Keshavjee,...
Patient hopes procedure will enhance her ability to care for her daughterSurgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed the first hand transplant in the western United States in an operation that began one minute before midnight on Friday, March 4, and was completed 14-and-a-half hours later, on Saturday, March 5.The transplant was performed on a 26-year-old mother from Northern California who lost her right hand in a traffic accident nearly five years ago. UCLA is only the fourth...
