Demand for donor livers for transplant patients outstrips supply with over 15% of waitlist patients dying after a year. A new international study offers support for increasing the use of living donor liver transplantation ...
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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 ...
Aug 30, 2012
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(HealthDay)—Livers from donors who suffered cardiac death can be safely and effectively transplanted into patients dying of liver cancer, a new study suggests.
Jun 5, 2015
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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 ...
Sep 6, 2012
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An existing drug could protect donor livers from damage during the transplantation process and reduce complications that occur afterwards, a study suggests.
Dec 21, 2022
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Morocco launched a campaign Wednesday to encourage organ donations that will include a programme to train imams to teach that the practice is not contrary to Islam, the health minister said.
Apr 22, 2015
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Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD), in which transplant organs are taken from donors after ay period of no blood circulation or oxygenation, is often considered inferior to donation after brain death, in which circulation ...
Sep 8, 2015
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A new treatment strategy for locally advanced liver cancer, known as "reduce and remove," was announced by the Department of Surgery and Department of Clinical Oncology, Center of Cancer Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Among African-American adults undergoing liver transplant to treat liver cancer, patients whose organ donor was also African-American lived significantly longer than those with a racially unmatched donor, report authors of ...
Jan 10, 2019
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Dr. Gary Gibbon didn't have long to live. A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently destroyed his lungs and caused irreparable damage to his liver.
Mar 29, 2024
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