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Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) — the equivalent size of two newborn babies — from a patient in India. It is thought to be the heaviest
Continue ReadingDoctors remove giant kidney weighing 16.3 pounds
A patient at a southern New Jersey hospital inadvertently got a transplanted kidney that was intended for another patient, officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The 51-year-old patient was on the transplant list
Continue ReadingNew Jersey hospital admits giving a kidney transplant to the wrong person
The president of Massachusetts General Hospital has long insisted that it was perfectly safe for some surgeons to oversee two operations at the same time. Dr. Peter Slavin told the Globe
Continue ReadingDouble-booked surgery cited in death at MGH, records indicate
Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup said Sunday it is canceling more than 140 elective surgeries this week after discovering flecks of plastic on some surgical trays. KIRO 7 reached out to a spokesperson
Continue ReadingGood Samaritan Hospital cancels more than 140 elective surgeries
Kalan, M.D., (left) and Darrell Cass, M.D., (right) perform in utero spina bifida surgery. Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida
Continue ReadingCleveland Clinic Performs Its First In Utero Fetal Surgery
Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery. “Minimally invasive” means that instead of operating on patients through large incisions, we use miniaturized surgical instruments that fit through a
TORONTO — More than 550 objects have been unintentionally left in Canadian medical and surgery patients between 2016 and 2018, and the problem appears to be getting worse. A new
Continue ReadingSurgical objects left in patients on the rise in Canada, data shows
Over a year since the history-making operation, the recipient of the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant – an injured veteran of the US Armed Forces – is “feeling
Continue ReadingWorld’s First Penis And Scrotum Transplant Is Fully Functional Over One Year On
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through
Continue ReadingCleveland Clinic First in the World to Perform Robotic Single-Port Kidney Transplant