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1st person to receive a pig kidney transplant has diedRick Slayman was the first person in the world to receive this pioneering surgery in March 2024.
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'We have combined two marvels of modern medicine': Woman gets pig kidney and heart pump in groundbreaking proceduresIn a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump.
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Pig kidney transplanted into human patient for 1st time everDoctors in Boston performed the first pig kidney transplant in a living patient.
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Life-threatening 'leaks' after surgery could be flagged faster with tiny new deviceA new implantable device, so far tested in rats and pigs, could soon be trialed in humans to help detect harmful post-surgery leaks in the body.
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Doctors perform 1st-ever whole eye, partial face transplantThis is the first whole-eye transplant performed in a person, and it was completed alongside a partial face transplant.
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Breast implants saved a man's life during a lung transplant. Here's how.Doctors at Northwestern Medicine used breast implants and an artificial lung to keep a patient stabilized until his double-lung transplant.
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Knife blade lodged in a man's belly mysteriously 'floated' to the other side of his body without causing damageDoctors report an "unusual and spectacular injury" in which a knife blade lodged in a man's belly drifted through his abdomen.
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In extremely rare case, doctors remove fetus from brain of 1-year-oldA young child had the remnants of her absorbed twin removed from her head.
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Vasectomy: Procedure, risks and reversalHalf a million men in the United States undergo a vasectomy every year. But how does this procedure work?
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