http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Research of transplant centers around the world found that those with more experience conducting live donor procedures had lower rates of aborted surgery and life-threatening "near-miss" events. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-liver-donors-life-threatening-near-miss-events.html Other Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:15:49 EST news286114543 (HealthDay)—The proportion of livers not used for transplantation is increasing, with the primary causes being donation after cardiac death (DCD), older donor age, greater body mass index (BMI), and increasing diabetes prevalence, according to research published in the January issue of Liver Transplantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-proportion-livers-transplantation.html Other Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:00:05 EST news278100198 A new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration, and published in the January 2013 issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), found that the non-use of donor livers climbed through 2010 due to a worsening of donor liver quality, primarily from donation following cardiac death. Diabetes, donor age, and body mass index (BMI) were also linked to a decrease in use of organs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-decline-liver-transplants.html Other Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:25:54 EST news277039548 (HealthDay)—Living liver donors from Japan have higher health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than the Japanese norm population, according to a study published in the November issue of Liver Transplantation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-qol-liver-donors-population.html Other Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:17:19 EST news271441032 Researchers in Japan report that health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for donors following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) was better than the general Japanese population (the norm). This study—one of the largest to date—found that donors who developed two or more medical problems (co-morbidities) after donation had significantly decreased long-term HRQOL. Full findings are published in the November issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-donors-fare-liver-transplantation.html Surgery Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:43:29 EST news270996194 Patients in Japan who underwent living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for acute liver failure (ALF) were classified as having excellent outcomes, with ten-year survival at 73%. The findings, published in the September issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), suggest that the type of liver disease or treatment plan does not affect long-term patient survival following LDLT. Donor and patient age, however, does impact long-term outcome post-transplant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-survival-excellent-donor-liver-transplantation.html Other Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:53:30 EST news266151129 A monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-antibody-hepatitis-animal.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:00:02 EST news265559627 British doctors on Tuesday said they had cured a baby boy of a life-threatening liver disease using a pioneering treatment in which cells are injected into the abdomen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-liver-treatment-british-baby.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:50:01 EST news240604490 Desperately needed adult living donor liver transplantation is a safe surgery for the donor, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-adult-donor-liver-transplants-safe.html Other Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:17:59 EST news239980673 New research shows liver transplantation candidates without hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) derive a greater survival benefit from a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) than waiting for a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT). The study now available in the October issue of Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, reports that survival benefit from LDLT remains significant across the range of model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scores, but this benefit was not apparent for low MELD candidates with HCC. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-donor-liver-transplantation-survival-deceased.html Other Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:02:56 EST news236336564 Transplantation specialists have proposed changes to the allocation and distribution of organs used for liver transplants. The recommended policy modifications take into account the scarcity of available organs, ensuring rapid allocation and delivery of the organ to those most in need in order to reduce mortality for waitlisted patients. Details of the proposed model are available in the September issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-livers-transplant.html Other Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:54:18 EST news234784431 Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that human liver cells derived from adult cells coaxed into an embryonic state can engraft and begin regenerating liver tissue in mice with chronic liver damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-adult-stem-cells-root-livers.html Medical research Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:07 EST news224338920 Transplant surgeons at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently performed their first simultaneous, dual living donor organ transplant on a single recipient. The recipient, a 60-year-old man from the Hazleton area, received a kidney from his wife and a section of his youngest son’s liver in a complicated surgery that lasted nearly 19 hours. Simultaneous transplants of multiple organs from multiple living donors to a single recipient are exceedingly rare in the United States; since 1987, the procedure has been performed with a liver and kidney coming from different living donors just 10 other times. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-center-rare-donor-transplant.html Other Tue, 03 May 2011 09:10:04 EST news223629795