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A human mini-bladder shows the culprit of recurrent infections

Researchers at EPFL, Heidelberg University and Roche have built a human mini-bladder to show how urine composition weakens bladder tissue, helping infections recur even after antibiotics. The work was ...
The New York Times

Surgeons Perform First Human Bladder Transplant

The procedure could be life-changing for some people with debilitating conditions. Oscar Larrainzar, the recipient of the first-ever bladder transplant, waited to be discharged from the Ronald Reagan ...
News-Medical.Net

First human bladder transplant patient thrives one year after surgery

One year after the first human bladder transplant, the patient is thriving and the UCLA Health surgeon who performed the ...
EurekAlert!

First human bladder transplant performed at UCLA

Surgeons from UCLA Health and Keck Medicine of USC have performed the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant. "Bladder transplantation has been Dr. Nassiri's principal academic focus since we ...

Ticking time bomb: how surgeons gave him back a basic human right after 7 years

A World First at UCLA: Transplanting Hope For the first time, surgeons at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los ...
Los Angeles Times

USC and UCLA Team Up for World’s First-in-Human Bladder Transplant

Historic surgery, the result of years of research at Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health, opens the door for improved treatment of non-functioning bladders “This surgery is a historic moment in ...
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USC, UCLA team up for the world’s first-in-human bladder transplant

“This surgery is a historic moment in medicine and stands to impact how we manage carefully selected patients with highly symptomatic ‘terminal’ bladders that are no longer functioning,” said Gill, ...