Following transmission of HIV to three blood recipients in the Tuscany Region (Florence) in 2007, the Italian health authorities requested the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to... continue
The main European transplant organizations actively took part to ALLIANCE-O, a project financed by the European Commission that aimed at setting up further cooperation and coordination in European national... continue
EUROCET is an online multilingual registry that publishes official and updated data on tissues and cells donation and transplantation activity from all EU member states, collected by the Italian National... continue
The first ever lung transplant on an HIV recipient took place in Palermo, southern Italy, at the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialised Therapies (ISMETT). The male patient... continue
Three recipients were transplanted in the Region of Tuscany, last week, with HIV-positive organs because of a wrong transcription of the laboratory analyses conducted by a biologist. The organ donor was... continue
Nov. 14th The Johns Hopkins Hospital transplant team successfully performed an outstanding transplant intervention: the first five-way donor kidney exchange among 10 individuals. All five organ recipients... continue
A recent article published in the BMJ* provides a global point of view on the growing parental demand for umbilical cord blood storing in private banks. Taking into account all the aspects laying behind... continue