Following their research using pigs and brain-dead deceased donors, investigators with Keck Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles are gearing up to transplant a bladder into ...

Transplant recipient Oscar Larrainzar is flanked by UCLA's Dr. Nima Nassiri (L) and USC's Dr. Inderbir Gill as they walked down a hallway at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

LOS ANGELES — For seven years, one man’s life was tethered to a dialysis machine. With most of his bladder removed due to cancer and both kidneys gone, his body could no longer perform one of its most ...

Surgeons from UCLA Health have successfully performed the first-ever human bladder transplant, a potentially game-changing procedure for people suffering from bladder dysfunction and pain. “This first ...

September 8, 2023 – A series of pre-clinical studies provide important first steps in developing techniques of robotic bladder transplantation in humans, as reported in the October issue of The ...

The most obvious home function we associate with the bladder is plumbing. But transplanting a bladder is much more complex than reconnecting a replacement to existing pipes. It also requires attaching ...

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Every Friday afternoon, 60 students cram into three laboratory spaces. Those labs have a distinct smell: ethanol and other chemicals, preserving four human cadavers. More than half of the 60 students ...

Fluorescent imaging of indocyanine green (ICG) injection site and its flow in lower limb lymph nodes. (A) Injection site located 2 cm above the inner neck of the lower limb. (B) Injection site in the ...