Medical research
World's first face transplant in a black patient brought special challenges
Robert Chelsea needed a new face, having lost most of his in a horrific Los Angeles traffic accident years ago.
Mar 18, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
African-Americans may live longer after liver transplant if their donors are the same race
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New drug target emerges for a dangerous fungal pathogen
Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen usually affecting immunocompromised patients, particularly AIDS and organ transplant patients, and is one that can be lethal. Current treatments against cryptococcosis are often ...
Feb 7, 2018
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HIV & AIDS
A surgeon's fight to legalize HIV-to-HIV organ transplants
Peter Stock, MD, PhD, a transplant surgeon at UC San Francisco, considers himself a representative specimen of his profession. "I think we're all typically atypical," he said, by which he means that transplant surgeons thrive ...
Jun 21, 2017
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Revolutionary biopsy-reading invention reaches the masses
A groundbreaking University of Alberta invention that will impact transplant patients' outcomes—and possibly cancer outcomes in the future—is poised to become widely available now that the transplant test has been licensed ...
Jun 8, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
ACR Releases Guideline on prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis
The American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) updated clinical guideline for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis is now available online. The guideline provides recommendations on assessing ...
Jun 8, 2017
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Surgery
Total abdominal wall transplantation for complex transplant cases—experts outline technique
For some patients undergoing intestinal or multi-organ transplantation, closing the abdominal wall poses a difficult surgical challenge. Total abdominal wall transplantation provides an alternative for abdominal closure in ...
May 26, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
4th patient infected during mold outbreak at hospital dies
A fourth transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection during a mold outbreak at a western Pennsylvania hospital has died, officials said Sunday.
Feb 7, 2016
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Burnout impacts transplant nurses, study finds
More than half of nurses who work with organ transplant patients in the United States experience high levels of emotional exhaustion, a primary sign of burnout, according to a study published by researchers at Henry Ford ...
Oct 6, 2015
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Medical research
Conclusive evidence on role of circulating mesenchymal stem cells in organ injury
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are present in virtually every type of human tissue and may help in organ regeneration after injury. But the theory that MSCs are released from the bone marrow into the blood stream following ...
Aug 21, 2014
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