First Skull and Scalp Transplant Completed in Texas

Score another for transplant surgery! 

55-year-old software developer Jim Boysen suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment and 15 hours and around a dozen docs and 40 health care workers later, he was given a skull-scalp transplant from a human donor. That's from a real person - not an artificial implant or a simple bone graft...  

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Complete cardiac transplant

Fascinating! But not for the faint of heart since this amazing vid shows a complete cardiac transplant. These vids are used for educational purposes only so let's get educated shall we!...

A heart transplant, or a cardiac transplant, is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease. As of 2008 the most common procedure is to take a working heart from a recently deceased organ donor (cadaveric allograft) and implant it into the patient. The patient's own heart is either removed (orthotopic procedure) or, less commonly, left in place to support the donor heart (heterotopic procedure). Post-operation survival periods average 15 years. Heart transplantation is not considered to be a cure for heart disease, but a life-saving treatment intended to improve the quality of life for recipients.

 

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