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(HealthDay)—Nonoverweight patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) cirrhosis who are on the transplant wait list have worse pre- and post-liver transplant (LT) outcomes, according to a study presented at The Liver Meeting, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, held virtually from Nov. 12 to 15. Pedro Ochoa-Allemant, M.D., from Yale School of […] Surgeons at Duke University Hospital successfully performed a "donation after circulatory death" (DCD) heart transplant in a pediatric patient, demonstrating the potential expansion of eligible donor hearts for children with heart failure. The transplant occurred Aug. 31 and is the first pediatric patient in the U.S. to undergo a DCD transplant using the organ preservation technology developed by Transmedics. A […] On a July afternoon, Federico Gomez Gil, 56, is dressed in a short-sleeved, collared shirt, sweatpants and a baseball cap. He sits in a chair in a hospital room, surrounded by his wife and two daughters. Given the past five months, this is the moment of a lifetime — a new lifetime. Gomez Gil is recovering from a double lung […] Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 substantially lowers the risks of “breakthrough” infections and death due to COVID-19 in adult organ transplant recipients, according to a pair of research letters in Transplantation, the official Journal of The Transplantation Society and the International Liver Transplantation Society. Transplantation Editor-in-Chief Jeremy R. Chapman, MD, comments that “these studies show that vaccine protects transplant patients and cuts mortality […] A new research project aims to use personalized anti-rejection medication to reduce the health risks that organ transplant patients experience following surgery. Third-year Ph.D. student Sarah Dart, from The University of Western Australia’s Medical School, said her research aimed to optimize immunosuppressant drug use, by analyzing how the immune system responds to an organ following transplantation. “Developing personalized treatment strategies […] University Health Network has performed what is believed to be the first lung transplant in Canada on a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged by COVID-19. Timothy Edwards Sauvé, 61, contracted the disease in December and was referred to UHN for a transplant assessment about two months later. After a careful assessment by a multi-disciplinary team in the Toronto Lung […] Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia – suffer remarkably fewer relapses and are far more likely to survive when the treatment is paired with a subsequent stem cell transplant, a new study finds. The research, with an average follow up of nearly five years, suggests that stem […] Griffin Dalrymple is an energetic 7-year-old who loves going to school in Eureka, Montana. But two years ago, the boy described by his mother, Jayci, as a "ball of fire" was suddenly knocked back by severe bacterial pneumonia that hospitalized him for two weeks. As her son lay in the intensive care unit with a tube in his tiny lungs, […] Leo Castillo came to the United States from Honduras nearly 21 years ago with a bright future in mind. After settling in Washington, D.C., and starting a family, he started working toward a personal dream. “He really likes trucks. He spent a lot of time looking at many catalogues. So one day I asked him, ‘Why do you spend so […] Shingles, medically termed Herpes zoster are caused by the same virus as chicken pox – Varicella zoster virus. They are characterized by one sided, severe painful lesions that heal in 2 to 4 weeks. The lesions are often form a belt shape. This actually explains the origin of the term “shingles”– as this word derives from the Latin term for […]
Liver transplant outcomes worse for nonoverweight NAFLD patients
Duke surgeons perform first 'donation after circulatory death' pediatric heart transplant
UC San Diego Health performed region’s first double lung transplant for a COVID-19 patient
In transplant recipients, COVID-19 vaccines reduce infection and mortality risks
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Double-lung transplant after COVID-19 performed in Canada
Stem cell transplants offer long-term benefits for pediatric cancer patients receiving immunotherapy
Push is on for states to ban organ transplant discrimination
Dad gets cutting-edge double lung transplant after nearly dying of COVID-19
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