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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 3

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 2

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant

STORY: Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona 2. various of pictures of the surgery 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ALBERT JAUREGUI, Head of the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplants Department at Vall d'Hebron 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): XAVIER, Lung transplant patient STORYLINE: Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world's first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone. Surgeons announced on Monday that they utilized a four-armed "Da Vinci" medical robot to make an eight-centimeter incision above the diaphragm to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one. This groundbreaking procedure avoids the traditional method of separating the ribs to open up the thorax, which was the only available option until now. The doctors also noted that i

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Unique surgery done to treat newborn with heart disease

KYOTO, Japan - Surgeon Masaaki Yamagishi, a professor of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, uses models in Kyoto, western Japan, on Aug. 27, 2014, to explain what he calls the world's first surgery to transplant part of the lung artery of a newborn to treat her incomplete "descending aort."

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Transplant of donor's left lung to man's right lung

OKAYAMA, Japan - Associate professor Takahiro Oto at Okayama University Hospital explains the transplant of a brain-dead donor's left lung in place of a recipient's right lung, the first such successful operation in Japan, on July 3, 2014, in Okayama City.

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3D printer helpful in rare lung transplant in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Hiroshi Date (R) and a fellow doctor of Kyoto University Hospital on May 14, 2014, hold models of a chest region and a lung produced by a three-dimensional printer for priori simulation of a rare lung transplant from a living donor. In the operation claimed to be the world's first of its kind, the lower lobe of a man's right lung was rotated before being transplanted to the place of his wife's severely afflicted left lung which had been removed in advance.

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Part of mom's lung transplanted to 3-yr-old son

OKAYAMA, Japan - Takahiro Oto, associate professor of respiratory surgery at Okayama University Hospital, holds a press conference in Okayama City on the night of July 1, 2013, after the state-run university hospital successfully transplanted part of a mother's lung to her 3-year-old son in the world's first transplant of a middle lobe from a living donor. The boy, who had experienced a decline in lung function, is the youngest lung recipient in Japan, the hospital said.

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Pioneering lung transplant recipient leaves hospital

OSAKA, Japan - A man (R), who received Japan's first transplant of both lungs from a brain-dead donor, holds a news conference with doctors at Osaka University Hospital on May 18 before leaving the hospital the same day. The man in his 30s, whose name was withheld, suffered from pulmonary hypertension. He said, ''It is like a dream that I can walk outside on my own feet. I feel happy to be alive.''

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Japan's 1st lung transplant patient leaves hospital

The recipient of Japan's first lung transplant (L) from living donors is presented bouquet on Dec. 28 as she was discharged from the Okayama University Hospital two months after the operation. The woman's name has been withheld.

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Japan's first lung transplant operation

A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted.

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Female donor's organs to be transplanted to 7

OSAKA, Japan - A patient is brought to an operation room at Osaka University Hospital in western Japan on March 29 in Japan's first lung transplants from a brain-dead donor under the 1997 Organ Transplant Law. Organs extracted from a female patient confirmed legally brain-dead the previous day at a Tokyo hospital will be transplanted to seven patients, including the Osaka patient, at six medical institutions. This photo was provided by Osaka University Hospital.

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Transplant of donor's left lung to man's right lung

OKAYAMA, Japan - Associate professor Takahiro Oto at Okayama University Hospital explains the transplant of a brain-dead donor's left lung in place of a recipient's right lung, the first such successful operation in Japan, on July 3, 2014, in Okayama City. (Kyodo)

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Japan's 1st lung transplant patient leaves hospital

The recipient of Japan's first lung transplant (L) from living donors is presented bouquet Dec. 28 as she was discharged from the Okayama University Hospital two months after the operation. The woman's name has been withheld.

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Japan's first lung transplant operation

A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted. ==Kyodo