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Heart transplant patient rings ‘transplant bell’ for first time at Ascension Seton

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Project Bell was created to help donate “new beginning” bells to cancer centers after patients complete their treatment.

AUSTIN, Texas — A heart transplant patient at Ascension Seton is getting to ring the “transplant bell” for the first time. 

Ascension Seton is expanding the hospital’s capacity to handle complex heart care capabilities to include care like heart transplants. As a way to celebrate the expansion, the hospital has installed a “Heart Transplant Bell” at the Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, and heart transplant patient Raul Rangel, 39, has the honor of ringing the bell for the first time. Check out this story in KVUE.

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Arizona man who received first ‘heart in a box’ transplant celebrates 50th wedding anniversary

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LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A man from Lake Havasu City was saved by breakthrough technology used for the first time in Arizona, a ‘heart in a box.’ We first told you about the procedure in December. The ‘heart in a box’ is a game changer for transplants since it doesn’t rely on the donor to be ‘brain dead’ to recover the organ. The recipient Jeff Robinson said he feels like a new man after receiving the new heart. “I feel blessed to have the second chance,” said Robinson. “I’m able to walk farther.” Read or watch the story in Arizona’s Family here.

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Patient Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant, Researchers Say

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He is at least the third person cured in this way, which would likely be too risky for patients who don’t also have cancer

A 53-year-old man diagnosed with HIV in 2008 is now free of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant, researchers reported Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.

The German man, known as “the Düsseldorf patient,” is the third confirmed person to be cured of HIV using this treatment, the authors write. Last year, researchers announced that two additional patients had recovered from the virus—including, importantly, a woman of mixed race—but papers on these patients have not been published yet, according to the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Read more in Smithsonian Magazine.

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Renowned cardiologist honored for medical contributions in heart transplantation

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Internationally recognized cardiologist in heart transplantation Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of Advanced Heart Disease and the Heart Transplant Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, and chief medical officer of the California Heart Center Foundation, an affiliate of Cedars-Sinai, has been selected to receive the highly coveted 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT). Read more in Science X.

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When minutes matter

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A look at the intersecting challenges in organ transportation, and a call for government and industry leaders to join the donation and transplant community in finding national-level solutions that ensure donor organs get safely to patients in need.

In late December 2022, as severe storms swept across the Midwest, a husband and father waited in a North Dakota hospital for a kidney. A lifesaving donor organ had been matched and was ready to be received by his transplant team—but 400 miles separated kidney from recipient, and a blizzard had cancelled all flights. Ultimately, thanks to a determined courier, a tow truck, a sheriff’s deputy whose own sister was a liver transplant recipient, and a snowplow clearing the way on a highway closed by driving snow and 50 mph winds, that gift of life was successfully delivered to its destination. Read more on UNOS.org.

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