Transplant
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Pound of flesh buys less prison time
Plus: Organ donation for fun and profit, and parasite expulsion with a blast of fat.
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Can a nationwide liver paired donation program work?
The program will require a donor (and a support person) to travel to the recipient’s transplant center where the surgery will be performed. A...
Conference Coverage
Balanced crystalloid fluids surpass saline for kidney transplant
Low chloride, balanced-crystalloid IV fluid led to significantly fewer delayed graft function events, compared with saline, in a multicenter trial...
Conference Coverage
Living donor liver transplants on rise for most urgent need
Patient survival appears to be comparable to deceased donor liver transplantation.
From the Journals
Real-world evidence seen for metal stents in biliary strictures
Equivalent efficacy and fewer procedures could make metal stents more cost-effective than plastic stents.
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Evusheld for COVID-19: Lifesaving and free, but still few takers
“HHS hasn’t made a major educational effort to promote it.”
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Pig heart transplants and the ethical challenges that lie ahead
Keeping a deceased recipient in a brain-dead state is part of xenotransplantation research, but experts debate the question: For how long, and...
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Transplanted pig hearts functioned normally in deceased persons on ventilator support
The experimental procedure could enable future widespread use of xenotransplantation to treat end-stage heart failure.
From the Journals
Pig-heart transplant case published with new details, insights
For example, heart injury at autopsy didn’t resemble standard graft rejection in humans or other primates, researchers said, nor did viral...
From the Journals
Add AFib to noncardiac surgery risk evaluation: New support
Preexisting atrial fibrillation should again be part of pre–noncardiac surgery cardiac risk assessment, argues a new report.
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Cause of death in pig heart recipient: New clues
New details on efforts to identify the mechanism of David Bennett’s death tentatively rule out a few possible suspects that had been at the top of...