Low-Urgency Heart Transplant Recipients More Likely to Receive Organs From Higher-Risk Donors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Heart-transplant recipients with the lowest medical urgency receive hearts from donors with an increased number …
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Duke surgeons perform first 'donation after circulatory death' pediatric heart transplant
Surgeons at Duke University Hospital successfully performed a "donation after circulatory death" (DCD) heart transplant in a pediatric patient, demonstrating …
Researchers offer large-scale screening of potential broad-spectrum SARS-CoV-2 antivirals
The search for effective and safe antivirals against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen responsible for the …
Organ Allocation Rule Change Has Liver Recovery Teams Traveling Twice as Far
(Reuters Health) – The February 2020 change in how organs are allocated for transplant has resulted in recovery teams traveling …
Whole genome sequencing may guide blood cancer treatment
For certain blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), deciding whether patients need an aggressive …
Dad gets cutting-edge double lung transplant after nearly dying of COVID-19
Leo Castillo came to the United States from Honduras nearly 21 years ago with a bright future in mind. After …
How Are Stem Cells Collected?
The stem cells used in a transplant are collected from the blood or sometimes the bone marrow. The first step …
Ohio woman who received first US face transplant dead at 57
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New study highlights advantages of living-donor liver transplant over deceased donor
Living-donor liver transplant offers numerous advantages over deceased-donor transplant, including better three-year survival rates for patients and lower costs, according …
dnDSA and ethnicity linked with thickening of blood vessels after kidney transplant
Children who developed anti-human leukocyte antibodies against their donor kidney, known as de novo donor-specific antibodies (dnDSA), after kidney transplant …
Face transplant surgery can improve speech in victims of severe face trauma
A new case study out of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that face …
Liver Transplant Survival May Improve With Race Matching
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16, 2019 — For African-American patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) undergoing liver transplantation, donor-recipient race matching is associated …