Sentences with phrase «first organ transplant recipient»

While he said he hoped his fame as the first organ transplant recipient to win an Olympic medal would «get families talking about organ donation,» he said he never felt any pressure to win to make his ordeal worthwhile.

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The first off - the - shelf stem cell treatment to gain regulatory approval was launched in Japan last year, and prevents transplanted organs from attacking their recipients.

Domino liver transplant procedures are aptly named for the sequential, one - after - the - other nature of the process in which a viable liver from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient, and the first recipientâ $ ™ s organ is then transplanted into a second recipient.

Physicians at the University of Chicago were the first in the U.S. to transplant a segment of an adult liver into a small child (1986), to divide one donated organ between two recipients (1988), and to use living donors for liver transplants.

A quick search of medical malpractice revealed stories of surgeons transplanting organs without first checking the blood types of the donors to the recipients as well as operating on the wrong body part.