Word: transplantation
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...past, if a donor wanted to give his organ to a family member—but could not due to conflicting blood types or antibodies—the donor’s information would not be saved by any organ transplant agency...
Richard Krafton, who received a kidney transplant just last week at the University’s Massachusetts General Hospital from a woman in Wisconsin through the exchange program, said he was back on his feet just a day after the surgery...
...Robert Altman has a youthful heart. Literally. While accepting an honorary Oscar, the 81-year-old director disclosed that he had had a heart transplant a decade ago, and received the organ of a woman in her 30s. Altman said he figured that gave him 40 more years in Hollywood. Someone should break it to the guy that in this town, a woman in her 40s is already over the hill...
...Since the day of the operation I have had a face like everybody else ... I want to resume a normal life." ISABELLE DINOIRE, the world's first recipient of a partial face transplant, appearing before reporters for the first time since her operation last November...
...DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, California. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, working with a Stanford University team, used smaller doses of toxic anti-rejection drugs and found other ways to dramatically improve transplant survival rates...