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Two Lung Cancer Patients Die Due To HRV

...on colds, has struck the two-immunosuppressed lung transplant patients, leading to progressive respiratory failu... The two were found to be a part of a group of 11 transplant patients who suffered clinically significant respiratory infection from HRV. The infection had affe...

Kidney Transplant Recipients Can Do Away With Steroids

...ajor part of anti-rejection medications for kidney transplant recipients. It is well known that long-term steroi... the prescription of steroid medications to kidney transplant recipients,” says Amer Rajab, M.D., Ph. D. and lead author of the study. “We conclude that a signifi...

A ‘Brave’ Toddler-The Youngest Organ Donr

...fit a 31-one year old man. Dr S Sahariah, chief transplant neurologist at the city-based Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, where the transplant surgery was done said,” It was tricky. Showrya was probably the youngest donor of organs. In the lim...

A Spanish Woman Gets A Double Hand Transplant

...emical explosion some 19 years ago had double hand transplant done on 30 November//. This is the first of its ki... within five to six months. This bilateral hand transplant was carried out at the Hospital La Fe in Valencia. Only two of the hand transplant operations carr...

Aggressive Stem Cells Might Improve Transplant Outcome

...t might reduce the time it takes for a bone marrow transplant to rebuild// a child’s immune system, and so reduc...loss of many of these vigorous stem cells from the transplant might contribute to the delay in rebuilding the immune system—a time lag that leaves children expose...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

...stages before the damage to the lung is done and a transplant is needed. A biopsy and a high resolution CT scan, not just an X-ray, are needed to detect LAM." Sue Byrnes - who founded The LAM Foundation, an international non-profit organization focused on research, after her daughter was diagnosed with LAM, a...

First Target For Stem Cell Research Will Be Diabetes Cure

Prince of Wales Hospital diabetes transplant unit is among the first in Australia to apply for a licence to use the new technology. //The first big target for embryonic stem cell research will be a cure for diabetes, with a top researcher in NSW predicting major progress within four years. A ...

A New Rapid 3-D Cell-Growth Technique For Growing Heart Muscle

.... Already, the U-M team has begun experiments to transplant BEHM into the hearts of rats that have suffered heart attacks, and see if the new tissue can heal the damage. This work is being conducted by Francesco Migneco, M.D., a research fellow with the Artificial Heart Laboratory. Further studies will implem...

Parkinson’s- Transplanting Cure

...eagues have zeroed in on a human neural stem cell transplant that is capable of enabling normal functioning as against the loss of movement control, which is the typical characteristic of the disease. Borlongan said, 'We are very cautious but, to us, it`s an indication that stem cells have promise for Parki...

Indore Surgeon Offers New Hope for Erectile Dysfunction

...stitute, London, and decided to perform an omental transplant to revive full blood circulation in the patient's genital limb," the doctor said. "Omentumm was grafted in the affected area without even touching the genitalia and the technique bore fruits. I would advise surgeons all over the world to operate u...

Elderly Lung Transplant Patients More Likely to Survive

... with progressive end-stage lung disease. However, transplant centers have found it necessary to adhere to patie... LTX recipients. Study findings showed that lung transplant recipients age 60 and older have a major survival advantage at UVa compared to patient data compiled...

The Other Side of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

When everyone thought that Hematopoietic stem cell transplant could help in fighting cancer,// a recent study is... more than tripled for patients who received their transplant when they were over 40 years of age. The study also identified a new risk factor: patients who recei...

Third Successful Hand Transplant Accomplished at United States

...ant. Thus because of the delay doctors found the transplant difficult, as the blood vessels tend to shrink if ...1999 and 2001. However the first attempt to hand transplant in France in 1998 was not a success, and it was ultimately amputated in 2001....

Myanmar National Undergoes Successful Liver Transplantation in Delhi

...usinessman from Mandalay underwent a 10-hour liver transplant surgery at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a leading p...kg to maximum 85 kg. Said A.S. Soin, chief liver transplant surgeon at Ganga Ram: "Yacoob had lost a lot of weight when he reached our hospital. But he has rega...

A New ‘face’ in Life?

... the dexterity of a 50 member team, who called the transplant a successful one, as the patient has recovered ver...elle, one of the surgeons who executed the partial transplant in Amiens, northern France, said 'She feels hot and cold like you or me. She leads a pretty normal l...

Review Urges Restricted Use Of Devices To Keep Heart Patients Alive

...ps are generally used as a temporary fix for heart transplant candidates who aren't likely to survive until a su...r the VAD patients with patients on the UK's heart transplant waiting list. The review estimates the average cost of a VAD implant operation is 63,830 British p...

Stem cell transplant recipients face significant risk of second cancer

...hat patients who receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), face a considerable risk of developing a s...ecially// if they are older during the time of the transplant or have received stem cells from a female donor. A peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer S...

Delhi Hospital Completes 100 Liver Transplants

... liver transplants in five years.// "The liver transplant programme started in 2001 and so far we have compl...e years, India witnessed nearly 350 cases of liver transplant of which Ganga Ram Hospital is credited with the bulk of work," Rao told reporters. The hospital i...

Maiden Quintuple Kidney Transplant Sets a Record

...lth of the donors as well as the recipients. The transplant plan took shape after four patients approached the...hts. Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of Hopkins' transplant center and head of the transplant team, has expressed immense satisfaction with the simultaneous tra...

Kidney Blood Flow May Explain Increased Long-Term Risks for Obese Kidney Donors

...ation predicts increased rates of renal damage and transplant loss and an increased risk of early death in kidney transplant recipients. The new results suggest that higher filtration pressure in overweight or obese living ki...

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