Worlds First Urinary Bladder Transplant

 

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                                                 Worlds First Urinary Bladder Transplant 

LOS ANGELES, CA– In a groundbreaking achievement set to reshape the future of transplant medicine, Dr. Inderbir S. Gill has led the world’s first successful bladder transplant in a human being. The revolutionary eight-hour surgery, performed on May 4 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, was the result of an extraordinary collaboration between Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health.

This historic procedure marks a major milestone in urologic and transplant surgery, potentially offering transformative treatment for millions suffering from severe bladder disease or loss of bladder function. The surgery was co-led by Dr. Gill—founding executive director of USC Urology and chair of urology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC—and Dr. Nima Nassiri, director of the UCLA Vascularized Composite Bladder Allograft Transplant Program.

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