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    US man who received first pig heart transplant dies after 2 months

    09 Mar 2022

    The procedure raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation, and the team behind the operation say they are "optimistic" about its future success.

    Aster’s Kerala hospital successfully transplants liver of Yemeni woman

    16 Mar 2022

    Born with a rare liver disease, 30-year-old Fatima Abdulkareem Saeed Al Nahdi was under treatment from various hospitals in Middle East. She had Budd Chiari syndrome with multiple protein enzyme defects resulting in blockade of major vessels of liver.

    Brain dead baby girl saves four organ failure patients in India

    31 Dec 2021

    Those who got a second lease of life through transplantation as an outcome of this gesture of organ donation included recipients in Mumbai, Delhi, and two at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh.

    Two-and-a-half-year-old Afghan girl undergoes bone marrow transplant in Kerala

    17 Apr 2021

    Kulsum was diagnosed with congenital acute myeloid leukaemia. She had undergone 4 cycles of chemotherapy in Dubai. Her doctors in Dubai suggested she undergo a bone marrow transplant as early as possible.

    Emirati girl youngest in ME to get heart transplant

    10 Jan 2023

    King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre’s (KFSH&RC) pediatric cardiac surgery team successfully performed consecutive heart transplants on two children within 24 hours in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

    Sheikh Hamdan praises Dubai boy who donated organs to save three lives in UAE, Saudi Arabia

    13 Oct 2021

    Taking to Twitter to express his heartfelt appreciation for the family’s humanitarian act, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed said the gesture “embodies the act of giving at his finest.”

    Egypt forces arrest gang of human organ traffickers

    24 Nov 2021

    Egypt has arrested a gang of human organ traffickers, which used to lure people to sell their kidneys at a very low price and the gang used to sell it to patients needing transplant at a much higher price.

    US surgeons perform world's first whole eye transplant

    09 Nov 2023

    A team of surgeons in New York said on Thursday that they had performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure described as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the patient will actually regain his sight.

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