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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Liver cancer's rapid growth leads to a vulnerability in its energy-production and cell-building processes that may be potently exploited with a new combination-treatment strategy, according to a study from researchers at ...
Aug 2, 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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Treating liver cancer tumors to shrink them in order to allow the patient to qualify for a liver transplant leads to excellent 10-year post-transplant outcomes, according to new Mount Sinai research published in JAMA Surgery. ...
Jul 22, 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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In children in the US and UK, a sudden increase in the number of cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown causes (SAHUC) and pediatric acute liver failure was reported between October 2021 and May 2022. As of June 22, 2022, ...
Jul 19, 2022
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My husband is 45 and has lived with irritable bowel syndrome for many years. He was recently diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Are these two conditions related? We were told a liver transplant ...
Jul 14, 2022
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A new USC study shows that liver transplant patients with established alcohol abuse issues prior to transplantation can do as well as, or better than, others who receive new livers—a finding that challenges longstanding ...
Jul 11, 2022
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