Study affirms geographic discrimination in allocating lungs for transplant
Results of a medical records study of more than 7,000 patients awaiting a lung transplant in the United States affirm ...
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Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors
Research derived from early national experience of liver transplantation has shown that deceased donor liver transplants offered recipients better survival ...
America's largest single-site kidney transplant chain under way
Twenty-one living donors have changed the lives of 21 recipients so far as part of the nation’s longest ongoing single-center ...
New clues found to preventing lung transplant rejection
Broadly suppressing the immune system after lung transplantation may inadvertently encourage organ rejection, according to a new study in mice. ...
Blood condition is highly predictive of graft failure in pediatric kidney transplant
For children receiving kidney transplants, a potentially correctable blood condition present in about one in four recipients is associated with ...
Role of stem cell transplant procedures for blood cancer treatment
Results from four innovative studies help answer outstanding questions about stem cell transplant procedures in treating various hematologic malignancies. New ...
Transplant tourism poses ethical dilemma for US doctors
Doctors have examined the ethical issues posed by transplant tourism, an offshoot of medical tourism, which focuses solely on transplantation ...
New data emerges on liver transplant survival rates
Researchers compared the outcomes of cirrhotic patients who underwent liver transplants for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus alcoholic liver disease (ETOH) ...
First Mouse Lung Transplants Lay Groundwork For New Ways To Prevent Transplant Rejection In Humans
Lung transplants have been performed successfully for more than 20 years in humans but never before in mice -- until ...
Surgeons Save Two Lives With Domino Transplant
Transplant surgeons at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and UPMC have saved two patients with life-threatening liver conditions utilizing a technique ...