Transplant
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Liver transplantation is on the rise for patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis
Traditional treatment of severe alcoholic hepatitis left many patients without a treatment option. But now more clinics are performing liver...
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Regular skin exams reduced advanced KCs in posttransplant patients
ORLANDO - Just 2.1% of the patients in the review had annual exams, and less than half saw a dermatologist even once during an average of 5 years...
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New trial to assess HIV+/HIV+ kidney transplants
NIH announces clinical trial to track outcomes of kidney transplantation from HIV+ donors to HIV+ recipients.
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Class III obesity increases risk of acute on chronic liver failure in cirrhotic patients
Patients with a BMI greater than or equal to 40 kg/m2 with decompensated cirrhosis are at greater risk of developing acute on chronic...
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DAAs open up organ donation from HCV patients
No sign of viral infection.
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VIDEO: Biomarker accurately predicted primary nonfunction after liver transplant
This could be a tool to safely select high-risk organs for liver transplantation that otherwise would be discarded from the donor pool.
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Racial disparities by region persist despite multiple liver transplant allocation schemes
Disparities with African Americans have improved, but new disparities with Hispanics and Asians have developed.
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Model validates use of HCV+ livers for transplant
A multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a mathematical model that shows when hepatitis C–positive-to-negative transplant may...
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Living liver donation safety supported in single-center study
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. - A study has confirmed the finding of previous investigations that living liver donation yielded a low rate of severe...
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Heart transplantation: Preop LVAD erases adverse impact of pulmonary hypertension
COLORADO SPRINGS – This expands the recipient pool.
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Study examines intestinal microbiota role post liver transplant
Colonization by multidrug-resistant organisms has a large effect on infections, microbiome diversity, and transplant outcomes.