Better Drug for Heart Transplant
...r everolimus was significantly more effective than azathioprine in preventing vasculopathy. Study authors write, "Everolimus combined with cyclosporine and corticosteroids during the first 12 months is a safe and effective immunosuppressant regimen for use in recipients of a first heart transplant." Researchers ...Azathioprine Can Soon Revolutionize Eczema Treatment
...ents. In around the 1960s, Roy Calne showed that azathioprine prevented the rejection of canine kidney transplants. Following this finding, a combination of azathioprine and corticosteroids were developed, for use in patents with transplanted kidneys. Atopic eczema is......ients, tacrolimus in 39%, mycophenolate in 49% and azathioprine in 51%. A steroid-free protocol was used in 17% of the patients. In the last 21 cases, basiliximab or daclizumab was added. The group found that there were 13 (32.5%) graft losses. Four of these had artery/vein thromboses, 3 chronic rejections, 3 d...