Surgeons perform Germany's first crossover kidney transplantation

Kidney Transplantation in Iran

Kidney transplantation in patients with end stage renal disease is preferred to dialysis because transplantation provides a better quality of life andimproved survival. However, the gap between the supply and demand for a renal allograft is widening and the waiting time is increasing. Iranian protocol, a controlled transplant program supported by the government for living unrelated donors, was ...

Training non-surgeons to perform resuscitative thoracotomy

Professor Moritz Schiff, a distinguished 19th century physiologist, provided the first description of thoracotomy, open cardiac massage and aortic compression for the resuscitation of cardiac arrest in 1874 [1] . In 1896, Ludwig Rehn performed the first successful thoracotomy, pericardotomy and cardiac wound repair on a young man dying from cardiac tamponade following a right ventricle stab wou...

First combined heart-kidney transplantation in Israel.

Why do UK cardiac surgeons not perform their first choice operation for coronary artery bypass graft?

For the past 15 years the “standard” coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation for multi-vessel coronary artery disease has used the left internal mammary artery and supplemental saphenous vein segments for conduits. However, increasing evidence suggests that arterial conduits have superior patency rates to vein grafts leading to improved survival and reduced need for reintervention. 4 It i...

Pediatric kidney transplantation: An overview

Kidney Transplantation in children is the treatment of choice to treat end stage renal disease. Improvements in immunosuppressive management have dramatically reduced the risk of early acute rejection and graft loss, however the long term results in terms of graft survival and morbidity still require search for new immunosuppressive regimens. Reducing of side effects are the challenges for impr...