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Transfer Of Rabies Virus Possible From Organ Donor To Recipient

In a study published in New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers have reported that rabies encephalitis may be spread from infected organ donor //to organ recipient. There had been report of four organ recipients (kidneys, Liver, and arterial segment) from a common donor dying of rabies encephalitis in US. The researchers conducted reviews of medical records of the donor and rece...

Kidney Donors Health Can Cause Anxiety Among Kidney Recipients

Recipients of kidneys from living people are reluctant to accept kidney donors// unless they are sure that donation will nor cause any harm to donors a stusy form Cardiff University research has shown. Paul Gill, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies recruited 11 kidney donors and their recipients from a regional transplant centre. After interviewing them about...

Kidney transplant donor and recipients need to talk it out

Before a kidney transplant surgical procedure, it helps if the donors// and the recipients sit in front of each other and talk out their queries. In a research by the Cardiff University investigators it had come to light that recipients of kidney often prefer to have a talk with their donors as they feel they would personally like to ensure that donating kidney might not be in any way...

Negative Impact Of Hepatitis C Infection In Renal Transplant Recipients

Recent research demonstrates that hepatitis C virus infection is a bad prognostic indicator for patient and graft survival duration in renal transplant recipients//. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is reported in 3%-64% of renal allograft recipients; the prevalence depends on the geographic area. Infections are the commonest cause of death in renal transplant recipients. Researchers...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

In what can be called a medical breakthrough, a Singaporean, who had a bone marrow transplant in July last year, survived a recent kidney transplant operation without taking drugs to prevent rejection//. Koh Hock Heng, 43, was diagnosed with kidney failure four years ago. Two years later, doctors discovered he also had a stem cell disease called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Accordi...

TNF Protein Can Predict GVHD Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

The outcome of bone marrow transplant could be determined in just one week by measuring levels of a protein called tumor necrosis factor (TNF). // The inflammatory marker can help doctors identify which patients will develop graft vs. host disease (GVHD), the most commonly observed complication following the surgery. The early identification of related complication can enable the atte...

Kidney Transplant Recipients Tardy In Taking Vital Medications

Waiting for a kidney transplant is agonizing, but taking the medications for preventing a transplant rejection more so. But it has emerged that more than 25 out of 100 transplant patients do not take their medications.// Now, a nursing researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia is studying the pattern of missing does and is trying to work on intervention methods. Cindy Russell,...

Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship

The White House has declared on Thursday that it would exempt the millions of vulnerable Medicaid recipients from the new law which requires them to give proof of their citizenship// by showing passports, birth certificates or other documents. This move was mainly seen as an attempt to pre-empt a ruling by a federal judge who is scheduled to hold a hearing on Friday on a lawsuit challen...

Low Dose Anti Rejection Protocol Helps Intestinal Transplant Recipients

Rakesh Sindhi, a surgeon and a researcher at the children hospital of Pittsburgh is planning to present how the new low dose anti rejection protocol //has appreciably improved the outcomes of the intestinal transplant recipients. Research performed by Rakesh Sindhi, MD, Co-Director of Pediatric Transplantation, and associates at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, shows that the new prot...

Pakistani Child is India's Youngest Liver Transplant Recipient

A one-year-old Pakistani boy has undergone a successful liver transplant in a New Delhi hospital, becoming the youngest ever such recipient in India// , said doctors here Wednesday. Shreyar, who is from Karachi, underwent the over eight-hour-long liver transplant surgery on June 19 at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. He was discharged on July 21, doctors at the private hospital said. <...

Kidney Transplant Recipients Can Do Away With Steroids

Daily steroids form a major part of anti-rejection medications for kidney transplant recipients. It is well known that long-term steroid use has significant side// effects. Long-term steroid use is associated with bone disease, obesity and slow growth rate in pediatric patients. Therefore, much effort has been made toward decreasing, withdrawing or completely avoiding the use of stero...

Women Given Liver Transplants Outlive Male Recipients

Female liver transplant recipients outlive men given the same procedure by an average of 4.5 years, suggests research published ahead of print in Gut. // And while younger people tend to live longest of all, they also stand to lose more years of their life compared with those who have not had liver transplants, the research shows. The research team assessed the life expect...

Lethal dose of cosmetic injections paralyzed recipients

In a shocking incident 2 years ago, four persons had to be hospitalized following cosmetic injections.// They received injections in the face with an cosmetic product that was unlicensed. The injection contained botulism toxin A, which was 40 times greater than the lethal dose for humans, reported by The Journal of the American Medical Association. The weakened form of the same toxin, botox, is...

Stem cell transplant recipients face significant risk of second cancer

A new study has highlighted that patients who receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT), face a considerable risk of developing a second cancer, especially// 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 Society, the study shows that within a decade of an allogeneic HSCT, t...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

At holiday dinners this year, Calabasas, Calif., resident Jim Stavis, 52, was able to eat the same pumpkin pie and special desserts everyone else had//, not the sugar-free variety. And when dinner was over, he didn’t have to reach for his insulin pump to try to compensate. A pancreas transplant performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in late October cured him of diabetes, which had controlled hi...

Transplanted Heart Goes to a Second Recipient in a Rare Surgery

Surgeons at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have reported that they have successfully removed a transplanted heart from a patient who had died and retransplanted it in another recipient. To my knowledge, this is the first time this has been done with a transplanted heart, said Dr. Lawrence S. C. Czer, medical director of the centers heart transplant program. Even with o...