New York: A team of US surgeons has performed the world’s first in-human bladder transplant, it was announced on Sunday.
Surgeons from Keck Medicine of University of Southern California and University of California Los Angeles health completed the surgery at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, in a joint effort by Inderbir Gill, founding executive director of USC Urology, and Nima Nassiri, MD, urologic transplant surgeon and director of the UCLA Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft Transplant Program.
“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.
“Transplantation is a lifesaving and life-enhancing treatment option for many…