World first as heart stored for 12 hours before transplant in France The organ was flown across the Atlantic in a specially-adapted fridge
French taxi driver helps nun who misses critical flight due to strike ‘She told me that it was a miracle,’ the taxi driver says, after he drove almost 600 km one way
France’s first larynx transplant: Woman talks after 23 years’ silence The transplant is the first of its kind in France, in an operation that lasted 27 hours and took a team of 12 surgeons from across the country How French village mayor is breaking organ donation taboo French scientist’s lightbulb moment to use worm blood in transplants French boy, 12, who inspired a song finally receives heart transplant
Christmas in Iceland for France’s double arm transplant patient Icelander Felix Gretarsson is the world’s first patient to undergo the pioneering surgery
France’s first Covid double lung transplant patient ‘glad to be alive’ The patient received the life-saving transplant after two months in a coma. We also explain how everyone is automatically presumed to be an organ donor in France
Baby born after uterus transplant is a first for France The mother’s uterus came from a transplant from her own mother at the same Paris hospital in 2019
Mother donates womb to daughter A woman who underwent France’s first uterine transplant can now have children – out of the uterus in which she grew as a foetus
French tech repairs Mick Jagger’s heart Simple heart valve replacement surgery invented in France has got Mick Jagger back on his feet.
Organ transplants fall for first time in 8 years Organ transplants fell by 5% in France last year, the first drop in eight years.
First artificial heart transplant done outside France French biomedical company Carmat has announced that it has successfully implanted an artificial heart outside of France for the first time.
Double arm transplant woman vows to play piano again A woman who was the first ever in France to receive a double-arm “transplant” has survived and vowed to play the piano again one day.
Transplants and sport can mix The founder of an association which encourages people with transplants to make the most of their ‘second life’ has told Connexion of the vital need for more organ donors as France held a national ‘think about organ donations’ day.