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"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.
In a first-of-its-kind surgery for Long Island, the Northwell Health Transplant Institute performed a successful three-organ transplant of a Queens man who was in various stages of heart, liver and ...
Fewer than 80 triple organ transplants have been attempted in the United States, and for the first time, the rare procedure was successfully performed on Long Island.
That’s what Sergio Arias Cestoni, the recipient of a rare lung, heart, and liver transplant procedure at Northwell’s North Shore University Hospital, said about the surgery that saved his life ...
“It’s definitely not another day in the office, not a regular day,” Dr. Ahmed Fahmy said. “Moments like this are very rewarding to the team.” “It was really a highlight of my career to ...
A Queens man is calling it a miracle that doctors found a match for a first-of-its-kind triple organ transplant on Long Island. Triple transplants are rare. There have been fewer than 60 performed in ...
“It’s definitely not another day in the office,” said Dr. Ahmed Fahmy, a kidney transplant surgeon at Northwell’s North Shore ...
In a historic medical milestone, a Long Island hospital successfully completed its first heart, liver, and kidney transplant on a single patient—giving a 47-year-old Queens man a miraculous second ...
Sergio Arias Cestoni had successful heart, kidney and liver transplants during a 14-hour surgery at North Shore University Hospital.