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🇧🇷 Folha (PT)
Life & Tech

The woman who lost 30 cm in height after being diagnosed with a rare disease

A woman lost nearly 30 centimeters in height after being diagnosed with a rare liver disease and is sharing her story to raise awareness.

Mar 2 • 13:25 UTC
🇧🇷 G1 (PT)
National & Local

Virtual reality glasses help transplant patient in the hospital to 'teleport' to other environments: 'Many good memories'

Virtual reality glasses have aided the rehabilitation of a liver transplant patient in Brazil, allowing her to experience nostalgic environments during recovery.

Mar 2 • 10:27 UTC
🇧🇷 G1 (PT)
National & Local

Maranhão is the first northeastern state to perform living donor liver transplantation between adults

Maranhão has become the first state in Brazil's northeast region to successfully perform a living donor liver transplant between adults.

Feb 20 • 15:34 UTC
🇲🇽 Milenio (ES)
National & Local

What illnesses did Daniel Bisogno have? These are all the ailments and interventions that the famous host who died a year ago had

Daniel Bisogno, a prominent Mexican television host, faced severe medical complications leading to his death one year ago, including a liver transplant and persistent infections.

Feb 19 • 20:14 UTC
🇨🇿 Novinky.cz
National & Local

Sixteen-year-old girl collapsed after a dose of kratom. Doctors had to transplant her liver at IKEM.

A sixteen-year-old girl in Czechia collapsed after taking kratom and required a liver transplant at IKEM.

Feb 17 • 15:31 UTC
🇮🇹 Il Giornale
National & Local

Difficult to intervene again: after 50 days, the liver, kidneys, and lungs are at their limits

Professor Luciano De Carlis discusses the dire health situation of a child in Naples after prolonged use of ECMO machines, raising concerns about the viability of a potential transplant.

Feb 15 • 07:12 UTC
🇪🇸 El Mundo
World

Chinese doctors save a patient with a pig liver connected outside the body

Chinese doctors successfully used a genetically modified pig liver to support a patient in critical condition while waiting for a transplant.

Feb 13 • 00:06 UTC
🇬🇧 Guardian
Crime & Justice

Texas doctor indicted on charges he falsified records to block patients’ liver transplants

A Houston doctor has been indicted for falsifying medical records to deny liver transplants to five patients, some of whom later died, according to federal prosecutors.

Feb 6 • 20:57 UTC
🇦🇷 La Nacion (ES)
Life & Tech

Due to a rare disease, he had a liver transplant and his mother was the donor: 'He gave me serenity, his calm held me'

The article tells the inspiring story of Timeo, who received a liver transplant from his mother due to a rare condition called biliary atresia.

Feb 6 • 06:00 UTC
🇬🇷 Proto Thema
Life & Tech

Release for 18-year-old Mario who underwent a liver transplant in Turin, watch the touching video

Eighteen-year-old Mario, who was born with the rare Alagille syndrome, has been discharged following a successful liver transplant in Turin, as shared by his mother in a heartfelt Facebook post and video.

Jan 15 • 11:56 UTC
🇨🇿 Deník N
Life & Tech

Tony Ducháček: They sliced me like a chicken. I told myself, this must be what death looks like... And then came the rebirth

Legendary musician Tony Ducháček celebrates his 68th birthday after undergoing a life-saving liver transplant, marking his return to the stage in a triumphant rebirth.

Jan 15 • 05:30 UTC
🇵🇱 Rzeczpospolita
Life & Tech

Organs on Demand. 3D Liver Aims to Save Patients Without Donors

Scientists are developing bioengineered tissue to tackle the ongoing shortage of transplant organs, including a temporary liver that allows patients to heal their own organ, thus eliminating the need for a full transplant.

Jan 13 • 21:50 UTC
🇬🇷 Proto Thema
Crime & Justice

Life gifts to five patients from a 50-year-old hospitalized at Papageorgiou Hospital

A 50-year-old man hospitalized at Papageorgiou Hospital has donated life to five patients through organ transplants including a heart, kidneys, liver, and corneas.

Jan 7 • 13:13 UTC
🇬🇷 Proto Thema
Crime & Justice

50-year-old liver recipient of 44-year-old in Thessaloniki has passed away

Despite the doctors' extraordinary efforts at the Hippokratio Hospital in Thessaloniki during a 14-hour surgery, the 50-year-old liver recipient has died following the transplantation of a liver from a 44-year-old donor.

Jan 2 • 16:18 UTC
🇬🇷 To Vima
National & Local

The first transplant of 2026 in Thessaloniki – A ‘gift of life’ from a 44-year-old – The record of 2025

Surgeons at Hippocrates Hospital in Thessaloniki celebrated the New Year by successfully performing kidney and liver transplants on three patients, using organs from a 44-year-old donor whose family chose to donate his organs after his death.

Jan 1 • 20:50 UTC

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