Blood condition is highly predictive of graft failure in pediatric kidney transplant
For children receiving kidney transplants, a potentially correctable blood condition present in about one in four recipients is associated with a moderately increased risk of the graft's later failure, suggesting that clinicians ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 19, 2012 |
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New transplant method may allow kidney recipients to live life free of anti-rejection medication
New ongoing research published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine suggests organ transplant recipients may not require anti-rejection medication in the future thanks to the power of stem cells, which may pr ...
Medical research
Mar 07, 2012 |
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NIH scientists outline steps toward Epstein-Barr virus vaccine
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no disease symptoms, but people infected during adolescence or young adulthood ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Study tests use of warm-heart transplants
Rob Evans, a 61-year-old social worker from Apache Junction, Ariz., got the good news on Father's Day: After 3.5 years, doctors had found him a heart and were preparing to bring it to the University of California-Los Angeles, ...
Cardiology
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Nearly one-third of kidney transplant patients readmitted to hospital within 30 days
Three in 10 patients receiving a kidney transplant require readmission to the hospital within 30 days of discharge following surgery, according to a Johns Hopkins analysis of six years of national data.
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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Melanoma up to 2.5 times likelier to strike transplant, lymphoma patients
Melanoma is on the rise nationally, and transplant recipients and lymphoma patients are far likelier than the average person to get that form of skin cancer and to die from it, a Mayo Clinic review has found. That is because ...
Cancer
Oct 03, 2012 |
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Study reveals optimal treatment for most common infection after organ transplantation
Waiting to treat the commonest viral infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of ...
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Factors tied to photoprotection ID'd for organ recipients
(HealthDay) -- For organ transplant recipients, patients factors, including sex and skin type, and receipt of advice from health care providers, are both associated with sun protective behaviors, according ...
Surgery
Aug 21, 2012 |
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Good transplant outcomes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
(HealthDay) -- Post-heart transplant survival does not differ significantly between patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) and those with other types of heart disease, according to a study published in the Aug. 15 ...
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Aug 17, 2012 |
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Current and former smokers at risk for recurrent hepatitis post-liver transplantation
Transplant recipients who smoke or have smoked increase their risk of viral hepatitis reinfection following liver transplantation according to new research available in the July issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal publis ...
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Jul 12, 2012 |
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Statins prevent cancer in heart transplant recipients
Statins prevent cancer and reduce death from all causes in heart transplant recipients. The findings were independent of cholesterol levels.
Cardiology
May 20, 2012 |
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Use of stem cells, conditioning induces immune tolerance
(HealthDay) -- A novel approach using a bioengineered mobilized cellular product enriched with hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and tolerogenic graft facilitating cells (FCs) in combination with nonmyeloablative ...
Immunology
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Younger patients more likely to live a decade or longer after heart transplant
Heart transplant patients who receive new organs before the age of 55 and get them at hospitals that perform at least nine heart transplants a year are significantly more likely than other people to survive at least 10 years ...
Cardiology
Feb 27, 2012 |
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Community health indicators tied to transplant outcomes
(HealthDay) -- In the community setting, health indicators are significantly associated with post-kidney-transplant mortality, according to a study published online Feb 20 in the Archives of Surgery.
Surgery
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Stress in cells activates hepatitis viruses
People who have received a donor organ need lifelong immunosuppressant drugs to keep their immune system from attacking the foreign tissue. However, with a suppressed immune system, many infectious agents ...
Medical research
Feb 13, 2012 |
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