Archive for the ‘Transplants’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Donate Life America and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) are using the month of April to educate Americans about the number of lives that could be saved and improved through organ, eye and tissue transplants. Organizations, including Allsup, which represents people nationwide for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Surgeons at the The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have carried out the first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant operation involving six donors and six recipients that were paired using a "domino" system that relies on altruistic donation to facilitate better matching of recipients with volunteer donors.The whole procedure, ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
The Department of Health announced the appointment of a new 'transplant tsar' to drive forward Government plans to increase the number of people who can benefit from an organ transplant. On 16 January, Ministers accepted recommendations made by the Organ ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Parents of pediatric liver transplant recipients report lower health-related quality of life for their children two years after the surgery, compared to reports from the parents of healthy children. However, reports of family dysfunction fall within the normal range. These findings are published in the April issue of Liver Transplantation. ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
In an Open Letter to the Federal Drug Administrations (FDA), which appears in the April issue of the American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) explain how FDA policy is thwarting the field of transplant ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The University of Alberta Hospital (UAH) is one of only a few centers in Canada that perform living donor liver transplantation, a surgical procedure developed in the late 1980s that expands the organ donor pool. About 80 liver transplants are done a year in Alberta, 10 of those being living-donor.All ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
EBMT, the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, will host over 4,000 top scientists, physicians, nurses, caregivers, patients and their families, and others during its 5-day Annual Congress in Florence, Italy. This meeting is a forum for the scientific exchange between physicians, nurses, and data managers, as ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Combination therapy of Prostacyclin, Sildenafil, and Bosentan helped a young male patient with severe portopulmonary hypertension improve enough to receive a liver transplant. It was also used post-transplant to help him maintain his health. These findings are published in the March issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
LifeCycle Pharma A/S (OMX: LCP), announced positive to top-line results from a completed Phase II clinical trial for LCP-Tacro in stable kidney transplant patients. Data demonstrated that LCP-Tacro, a once daily immunosuppression drug for the treatment of kidney transplant patients, has a potential best-in-class profile when compared to the currently ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).Released on January 11, the report measures performance and characteristics of each transplant program at all ...
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