A physician-scientist at City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, has identified a novel combination immunotherapy regimen that demonstrated significant response in ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Liver transplant surgery is a vital and life-saving procedure, but it also is associated with a high rate of postoperative complications. As many as one in four liver transplant patients will return to the operating room ...
Aug 26, 2022
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According to research publsihed in the American Journal of Roentgenology, machine learning models applied to presently underutilized imaging features could help construct more reliable criteria for organ allocation and liver ...
Aug 17, 2022
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Solid organ transplants—heart, lung, liver, and kidney—are resource-intensive operations that require patients to take immunosuppressive drugs after the procedure to keep the body from rejecting the new organ.
Aug 16, 2022
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Scottish authorities were alerted about an observed unusual number of severe liver inflammation (hepatitis) cases in children in April 2022. The infection could not be linked to commonly known causes for hepatitis. Until ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Every year, some 13,000 people are added to the liver transplant waiting list in the United States, but fewer than 9,000 receive a liver. Placement on the list largely depends on a number called the MELD (model for end-stage ...
Aug 4, 2022
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Physicians and researchers from UK HealthCare's Transplant Center and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center conducted a study of patients over the age of 70 with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Scientists believe natural-killer cells in the liver may explain why liver transplant patients typically require less treatment with immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection than recipients of other organ transplants.
Jul 27, 2022
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Recent acute hepatitis cases of unknown origin in children have now been linked to the virus AAV2 in two new U.K. studies, with no evidence of a direct link to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Jul 25, 2022
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Cases of acute hepatitis without known cause have been described in children in two case series published online July 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Jul 21, 2022
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