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Columbia physicians and surgeons led a pioneering “domino” transplant that saved two babies’ lives.
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Some transplant centers routinely skip their highest-ranking candidate to give a donated kidney to a lower-ranked patient, Columbia researchers have found.
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What started as a medical mission to save the life of one child in Venezuela has grown into a program that is building liver transplant programs for children across the Caribbean and Central America.
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Columbia surgeons performed the first pediatric total artificial heart surgery in the Northeast.
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- December 12, 2022
Sam Prince, who received a heart transplant at Columbia at age 8, combines a passion for the New York Giants with his mission to save more lives through organ donation.
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- December 9, 2022
Columbia’s cell therapy lab, which creates customized cell therapies, is testing its first product, T cells trained to fight dangerous infections in transplant patients.
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- November 15, 2022
Chronic liver disease is surging in the United States. No group is more affected than Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
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- July 29, 2022
Now a thriving 19-year-old, the pediatric heart transplant patient offers hope to others.
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- July 18, 2022
Transplantation of animal organs into human bodies may become medical reality sooner than we think.
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- February 9, 2022
A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, Columbia University researchers have found.
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- July 29, 2021
A transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons gave a young man with cystic fibrosis new hope with a triple-organ transplant.
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- July 24, 2020
Heart transplants, donor hearts, and transplant waitlists all fell sharply at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Columbia University researchers have found.
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- July 13, 2020
The health of donated human lungs judged too poor for transplantation can be recovered using a cross-circulation technique designed by biomedical engineers at Columbia University.
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- August 30, 2019
Most patients who died or were removed from the kidney transplant waitlist before getting a transplant received multiple offers for a donor kidney.
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