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Women, blacks, Medicare recipients less likely to be evaluated for liver transplantation
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Patient race, gender and insurance status influence decisions about who will go on to receive liver transplants, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study. Available online and published in the September ...
Heart transplant recipients can improve fitness and perform high intensity workouts
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 per cent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and ...
Researchers explore new driver of transplant rejection: Platelets
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Platelets, tiny and relatively uncharted tenants of the bloodstream known mostly for their role in blood clotting, turn out to also rally sustained immune system inflammatory responses that play a critical role in organ transplant ...
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Radiology procedure may help increase long-term survival in patients with severe liver cancer
Nov 20, 2009 |
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In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly ...
Anti-rejection drug may increase risk of diabetes after kidney transplant
May 22, 2008 |
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For patients undergoing kidney transplantation, treatment with the anti-rejection drug sirolimus may lead to an increased risk of diabetes, reports a study in the July Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).
Women's access to donated kidneys declines with age, particularly compared with men
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Younger women have equivalent access to kidney transplants compared with their male counterparts, but older women receive transplants much less frequently than older men, according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue ...
Better antifreezes to preserve donor organs for transplantation
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Chemists in Canada have developed a new approach for producing more effective medical antifreeze fluids for preserving kidneys, hearts, and other organs donated for transplantation. These next-generation antifreezes ...
Study concludes no racial disparities in long-term outcomes in recipients of liver transplants
May 19, 2008 |
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New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows long-term survival and liver rejection rates are equivalent for African-American liver transplant patients as compared with patients of other ...
Extreme BMI cause for concern in liver transplantation
Aug 04, 2009 |
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A recent study by doctors at the University of Washington explained that patients who are significantly underweight or very severely obese prior to liver transplantation are at increased risk of death following transplantation ...
Racial disparity studied in patients undergoing liver transplantation for hepatitis B
Aug 28, 2009 |
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 1.5 to 2 million Americans are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Prior studies have shown there to be significant racial differences in access to ...
No racial differences seen in outcomes after liver transplantation
Nov 01, 2007 |
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Minority patients do not necessarily have worse outcomes after liver transplantation. When treated at the same medical centers as Caucasians, they fare just as well. These are the results of a new study in the November issue ...
Transplantation: 'molecular miscegenation' blurs the boundary between self and non-self
Oct 30, 2008 |
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A new discovery by London biologists may yield new ways of handling the problem of transplant rejection. In a research article published in the November 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal, the scientists confirm the tw ...
African-American Canadians who receive kidney transplants fare better than those in US
Oct 29, 2008 |
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African American kidney disease patients in both Canada and the United States are less likely than Caucasian Americans to have access to kidney transplants, but only African-Americans in the United States have worse health ...
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