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Kidney Transplants Between People With HIV Offer Long-term Success

Kidney Transplants Between People With HIV Offer Long-term Success

Highlights: Overall survival and kidney graft survival rates of HIV-infected patients who received kidney transplants from deceased donors with HIV have been high even...

Opt-out Organ Donation Could Affect Transplant Waitlists

Opt-out Organ Donation Could Affect Transplant Waitlists

Highlights: A policy shift to adopt presumed consent from the current opt-in system could benefit the organ donation situation in the United States. However, the r...

Living Kidney Donors at Higher Risk of Developing Hypertension

Living Kidney Donors at Higher Risk of Developing Hypertension

Highlights: Living kidney donors have a higher risk of developing hypertension than non-donors It is very important for kidney donors to control their blood pressure T...

Home Dialysis can Improve Quality of Life for Kidney Disease Patients

Home Dialysis can Improve Quality of Life for Kidney Disease Patients

Highlights: Home dialysis for kidney patients is a safe option that could be expanded to use in large, integrated health care systems. In the last 10 years, the rate o...

Kidney Transplant From Hepatitis C Infected Donors ‘Safe & Effective’

Kidney Transplant From Hepatitis C Infected Donors ‘Safe & Effective’

Highlights : Kidneys from donors infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are safe and function equally well compared to uninfected kidneys even one year after the transpla...

‘Super Cool’ Way of Preserving Donor Livers

‘Super Cool’ Way of Preserving Donor Livers

Highlights: Donor livers can now be preserved much longer using ‘super-cooling’ technology than conventional methods It significantly increases the length of time the ...

New Drug Combination may Extend the Lives of Lung Transplant Patients

New Drug Combination may Extend the Lives of Lung Transplant Patients

Highlights: A new drug combination found has the potential to extend survival in lung transplant recipients The cell cycle inhibitor, Sirolimus offers a survival advantag...

Why Does Your Body Reject Your Own Stem Cells?

Why Does Your Body Reject Your Own Stem Cells?

Highlights : Scientists discover why lab generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from patient’s own adult cells get rejected by the immune cells when the ...

Pigs Hearts for Human Transplants within Three Years

Pigs Hearts for Human Transplants within Three Years

Highlights: Heart failure is a global pandemic with about 26 million people affected over the globe Xenotransplantation is the complicated transplant of animal organs into human b...

World Organ Donation Day – Pledge Your Organs and Save Lives

World Organ Donation Day – Pledge Your Organs and Save Lives

Highlights: Organ Donation Day has been observed on 13 th of August every year since 2009 in India Availability of donors continues to remain a serious challenge an...

Blood Test can Detect Antibody-Mediated Kidney Rejection in Transplant Recipients

Blood Test can Detect Antibody-Mediated Kidney Rejection in Transplant Recipients

Highlights: A non-invasive bio-marker has been developed to identify patients with antibody-mediated kidney rejection symptoms caused after transplants Identification could be done t...

Transplant Recipients May Not Require Anti-rejection Drugs Anymore

Transplant Recipients May Not Require Anti-rejection Drugs Anymore

Highlights: Anti-rejection drugs may not be required anymore to prevent rejection in transplant recipients Infusion of modified white blood cells before and after ...

Piggyback Heart Transplant Procedure in Chennai – Interview With Dr.Ejaz Ahmed Sheriff

Piggyback Heart Transplant Procedure in Chennai – Interview With Dr.Ejaz Ahmed Sheriff

Highlights: Unique surgery leaves a 100kg man with two beating hearts by a technique called the ‘Piggyback or Heterotopic heart transplant surgery’ Surgery which was perform...

FRESH 3D Printing of Human Heart - A Step Closer to Reality

FRESH 3D Printing of Human Heart - A Step Closer to Reality

Highlights: 3D bioprinting of the human heart could soon become a reality using a new technology The technology is called Freeform Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydroge...

Living-donor Liver Transplant Offers Many Advantages Over Deceased Donor

Living-donor Liver Transplant Offers Many Advantages Over Deceased Donor

Highlights : Living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) may offer better patient outcomes such as improved survival and fewer complications as well as lesser cost compared to ...

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