What was only a dream for diabetics a few months ago became a fact today. A team from Institute and Clinic of General and Transplant Surgery of Baby Jesus Clinical Hospital in Warsaw had conducted revolutionary surgery of autogenous transplantation of islet cells under stomach’s mucosa(1). Read full text »

A group of Silesian Surgeons from the Cancer Centre of Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute in Gliwice announced that they are ready to perform first facial allograft transplantation in Poland and Middle-East Europe. A team of Professor Adam Maciejewski is still searching for the best match of donor and recipient. Similar surgeries have already been performed in USA, Spain, Germany, France and Belgium. Read full text »

Transplantation medicine has made another step forward! This time a person, who had been doomed for a wheelchair, was given a chance to walk on new legs. The simultaneous transplantation of two legs was conducted by dr Pedro Cavadas from Spain. Read full text »