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Cleveland Clinic team perform complex foetal surgery to remove rare heart tumour

      A multidisciplinary team of Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Children’s doctors and nurses performed a rare and complex lifesaving foetal surgery to remove a tumour attached to the heart of a 26-week-old foetus. Few studies about the rare condition – an intrapericardial teratoma with foetal hydrops (i.e., fluid accumulation) evolving to foetal […]

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Patient receives pig heart in world-first transplant

In a major medical breakthrough, a man in the United States has received a heart from a genetically modified pig in a successful transplant. The 57-year-old man, David Bennett, who was not eligible for a routine heart transplant, opted for the experimental surgical procedure, saying: “It was either die or do this transplant. I want […]