UCSF marked a milestone this week with the 500th procedure in its Thoracic Transplant Program, which specialises in transplantation of the heart and lung...
... Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “These studies, which build on advances in immunology and transplantation research, may open the door to more widespread use of islet transplantation for patients with severe ...
SEATTLE (AP) -- A man who was denied a liver transplant because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died....
... that had undergone a “sham” operation.
The positive metabolic effects were specific to transplantation of subcutaneous fat and were greatest when subcutaneous fat was transplanted into the visceral ...
... his team found that death rates for patients with systolic dysfunction who were waiting for kidney transplants were almost six-fold higher than the reported mortality for individuals with systolic ...
... to researchers who analyzed the stress levels of caregivers, as well as their perceptions of the transplant recipients’ quality of dying and death. Their findings were presented at the American ...
... Prompted by serious lapses at three California organ transplant programs, federal inspectors have documented broad failings by the agencies that oversee the nation's transplant system and raised ...
... doctor-prescribed marijuana be a deal-breaker for someone needing an organ transplant? It is not a theoretical question but a pressing and emotional one confronting hospitals and patients in states ...
... monitoring after their operation and must take drugs that prevent rejection of the transplanted organ (immunosuppressants) for the rest of their lives.
Using information from the UCLA transplant ...
The current issue of CELL TRANSPLANTATION (Vol. 17:4) features a number of publications by researchers seeking new ways to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD), a neurological disease characterized by ...
... with sirolimus was analyzed as a possible contributor to the risk of diabetes developing after transplantation, along with other known and potential risk factors.
"Sirolimus is a newer type of anti- ...
... risk of diabetes, reports a new study. The results suggested a higher rate of post-transplant diabetes among patients treated with sirolimus, compared to other anti-rejection drugs. Depending on ...
... A Los Angeles hospital provided liver transplants to four Japanese gang figures, including ... a period when several hundred area patients died while awaiting transplants, according to a published report ...
... David Perkins, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine & surgery, and Director of Research for Transplantation.
"This study was not commercially funded," added Steiner. "We just wanted to confirm what ...
... occurred in 8.8 percent of patients, most within the first few weeks after the transplant. About 10 percent of these were fatal, which is a great improvement over the past. The predominant infection ...
