UCLA, USC surgeons perform world's first human bladder transplant

Patient Oscar Larrainzar lost most of his bladder during tumor removal and required seven years of dialysis before receiving this transplant.

In a Los Angeles operating room on May 4, surgeons from UCLA and USC crossed a threshold that medicine had never before reached — successfully transplanting a human bladder for the first time in history. The patient, Oscar Larrainzar, a 41-year-old father of four, had spent seven years bound to a dialysis machine after cancer and surgery stripped him of his kidneys and bladder. What two surgeons spent four years quietly building in research and technique became, in eight hours of surgery, a new chapter in what the human body can be given back. A door that did not exist has now been opened.

UCLA, USC surgeons perform world's first human bladder transplant

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