Children and young adults with kidney failure due to sickle cell disease (SCD) wait longer for a kidney transplant and have significantly higher mortality when compared to children and young adults with kidney failure not ...
Nov 6, 2023
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The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.
Oct 31, 2023
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About 50 children are waitlisted for transplants in the U.S. a year due to acute liver failure. Unlike children with chronic liver disease, previously healthy children who develop acute liver failure can suddenly deteriorate. ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Infections with cytomegalovirus (CMV) are extremely common and often pose no major threat to the vast majority of people. They can however be deadly for people whose immune system is weakened, for example, after bone marrow ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Inequity in kidney health care continues to impact the lives, well-being and health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Australia says a new paper from Flinders University.
Oct 16, 2023
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B-type natriuretic peptide levels have played a vital role in diagnosing and prognosticating heart failure. However, physician-scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have ...
Sep 21, 2023
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A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine shows the benefit of having patients with advanced disease from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) undergo genetic testing ...
Aug 29, 2023
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Atrial fibrillation ablation is associated with lower rates of death, urgent heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation compared with medical therapy in patients with end-stage heart failure, ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Over two million people worldwide depend on dialysis or a kidney transplant, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Globally, the number of individuals facing kidney failure has climbed 35 percent since 2009 and nearly ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver. The five main strains of the hepatitis virus are referred to as types A, B, C, D and E. While they all cause liver disease, they differ in geographic prevalence, modes of transmission, ...
Jul 29, 2023
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