{"id":27995,"date":"2025-05-18T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27995"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:25:38","slug":"surgeons-perform-first-human-bladder-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27995","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons Perform First Human Bladder Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surgeons in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially life-changing procedure for people with debilitating bladder conditions.<\/p>\n

The operation was performed earlier this month by a pair of surgeons from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California on a 41-year-old man who had lost much of his bladder capacity from treatments for a rare form of bladder cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a ticking time bomb,\u201d the patient, Oscar Larrainzar, said on Thursday during a follow-up appointment with his doctors. \u201cBut now I have hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

The doctors plan to perform bladder transplants in four more patients as part of a clinical trial<\/a> to get a sense of outcomes like bladder capacity and graft complications before pursuing a larger trial to expand its use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Inderbir Gill<\/a>, who performed the surgery along with Dr. Nima Nassiri<\/a>, called it \u201cthe realization of a dream\u201d for treating thousands of patients with crippling pelvic pain, inflammation and recurrent infections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no question: A potential door has been opened for these people that did not exist earlier,\u201d said Dr. Gill, the chairman of the urology department at U.S.C.<\/p>\n

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Surgeons in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, introducing a new, potentially life-changing procedure for people with debilitating bladder conditions.The operation was performed earlier this month by a pair of surgeons from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California on a 41-year-old man who had lost much of his bladder capacity from treatments for a rare form of bladder cancer.\u201cI was a ticking time bomb,\u201d the patient, Oscar Larrainzar, said on Thursday during a follow-up appointment with his doctors. \u201cBut now I have hope.\u201dThe doctors plan to perform bladder transplants in four more patients as part of a clinical trial to get a sense of outcomes like bladder capacity and graft complications before pursuing a larger trial to expand its use.Dr. Inderbir Gill, who performed the surgery along with Dr. Nima Nassiri, called it \u201cthe realization of a dream\u201d for treating thousands of patients with crippling pelvic pain, inflammation and recurrent infections.\u201cThere is no question: A potential door has been opened for these people that did not exist earlier,\u201d said Dr. Gill, the chairman of the urology department at U.S.C.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27997,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27998,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27995\/revisions\/27998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}