In the USA, surgeons performed a successful bladder transplant for the first time.

In the United States, for the first time in history, surgeons have successfully performed a bladder transplant. This was reported by the newspaper El Pais on May 20.

The operation was designed and performed by two surgeons from California who have been working on the technique for more than four years.

It is specified that the man had previously undergone kidney and bladder removal due to cancer. Therefore, for seven years, the patient's blood was purified inside the body by dialysis.

In this situation, doctors decided to transplant a kidney from a donor along with a bladder. During the operation, which lasted eight hours, surgeons connected the two organs. It is reported that, despite the man's complicated medical history, the operation was successful, and the patient quickly began to recover.

"This operation marks a historic milestone in medicine and may affect how we treat patients with <...>..> bladders that are no longer functioning," said Inderbeer Gill, head of transplantation, founder and executive director of urology at the University of Southern California.

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