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Recipients of liver transplants who contracted COVID-19 recovered faster with less severe inflammation than heart or kidney transplant recipients, and some even did better than non-transplant patients, according to a study conducted at Hospital das Clínicas (HC), the hospital complex run by the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil. An article describing […]
(HealthDay)—For patients with refractory or relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphoma (R/R-PTCL), three- and five-year overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) are similar with allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), but transplant-related mortality (TRM) is higher with allogeneic HSCT, according to a review published online May 27 in JAMA Network Open. Jun Du, M.D., […]
Researchers from University Health Network have developed and validated an innovative deep learning model to predict a patient’s long-term outcome after receiving a liver transplant. First of its kind in the field of Transplantation, this model is the result from a collaboration between the Ajmera Transplant Centre and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. The study, published […]
A team of researchers at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, in New South Wales, Australia, has established a technique for helping to improve transplant outcomes for patients with diabetes undergoing islet transplantation. Image Credit: Image Point Fr/Shutterstock.com The findings of their study, which they published in the scientific journal, PLOS ONE, last May, outlines […]
Like most other countries, Austria—as part of the Eurotransplant organization—allocates organs to patients on the liver transplant waiting list on the basis of medical urgency. Currently, patients are listed according to urgency using a score made up of three laboratory parameters—the Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score. However, the MELD score has obvious […]
Heart transplant recipients who live in areas where particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution levels reached above national limits for clean air had a 26% higher risk of mortality due to infection, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. More than 2,000 heart transplantations are performed in the […]
Government gives green light for firm to BANK people’s frozen hair follicles for pioneering transplant therapy to combat baldness A company has been given permission by the Human Tissue Authority Cells within the follicles can be multiplied in the lab and stored for future use The cells are injected back into the scalp to produce […]
Karey Gengler’s sudden and tragic death from a brain aneurysm at age 46 left her family grieving. But in the days after she passed, she went on to save the lives of four other people, including her daughter’s boyfriend who was desperately in need of a kidney. For over a year, Mike Rodgers, her daughter […]
Too often, it’s only after a transplanted organ has sustained serious damage that a biopsy reveals the organ is in rejection. A new screening method using sensor particles and a urine test could catch rejection much earlier, more comprehensively, and without a biopsy needle. When the body’s immune system has just begun attacking cells of […]
Poo transplant or “Faecal microbiota transplantation” (FMT) can successfully treat patients with ulcerative colitis, new research from the University of Adelaide shows. The randomised, double-blind study—published in the journal JAMA – was a collaboration between the University of Adelaide, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), CSIRO and CALHN (SA Health). It involved 73 […]