MNT- Organ Transplant News

This is quite a compendium of recent articles on the field of organ transplant, I was struck by the diversity of them

Transplants / Organ Donations News

The latest Transplants / Organ Donations News articles published daily. Includes news on immunosuppression, organ allocation, organ dysfunction, rejection, alternative sources, techniques and more.

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• Treating autoimmune and transplant patients with the vitamin a used in acne medicines
  3 Feb 2014
• Skin with blood and lymphatic capillaries grown for the first time
  3 Feb 2014
• Kidney donation and other altruistic acts more common in states with high well-being
  31 Jan 2014
• Equivalent outcomes for double-lung transplants when blood type between donor and recipient is identical or compatible
  30 Jan 2014
• Murine cardiac graft rejection limited by a platelet-derived factor
  29 Jan 2014
• Long-term survival possible for pediatric heart transplant patients
  28 Jan 2014
• Morbidity higher in obese liver transplant recipients with diabetes, survival not impacted
  24 Jan 2014
• Renal cooling during robotic kidney transplant benefits patients
  23 Jan 2014
• During rejection episodes following facial transplantation, donor T cells are significantly involved
  21 Jan 2014
• New proposal for the better allocation of donated livers in transplants
  20 Jan 2014
• Access to pediatric kidney transplantation in the US may depend on where the child lives
  20 Jan 2014
• Controlling transplanted cells from the inside out
  15 Jan 2014
• Avoiding amputation by Injecting stem cells into peripheral nerves
  14 Jan 2014
• Immune tolerance to grafts of muscle, bone and skin could free transplant recipients from lifelong immunosuppression
  13 Jan 2014
• Data suggest need for new heart-size matching strategy to improve heart transplant outcomes
  11 Jan 2014
• Stem cell transplantation: new approach 'protects from rejection'
  3 Jan 2014
• Fetal umbilical vein for reconstruction of middle cerebral artery
  3 Jan 2014
• New technique could boost corneal transplant acceptance rates
  3 Jan 2014
• ERA-EDTA and EuroPD: Using synergies to promote peritoneal dialysis in Europe
  23 Dec 2013
• Study results inform discussions regarding US policy on lung transplantation in children
  17 Dec 2013
• Study results inform discussions regarding US policy on lung transplantation in children
  12 Dec 2013
• Growing umbilical cord blood stem cells in lab before transplant boosts leukemia, lymphoma survival
  12 Dec 2013
• Stem cell transplantation outcomes 'improved with new drug regime'
  11 Dec 2013
• Promising early results in international gene therapy trial for 'bubble boy' disease
  10 Dec 2013
• Access to transplants for MDS should not be limited by age
  10 Dec 2013
• New insights may explain difficulty of finding drugs for infectious disease
  10 Dec 2013
• Why HIV is a common cause of kidney failure
  10 Dec 2013
• Bortezomib (Velcade) reduces GVHD, boosts survival
  9 Dec 2013
• Racial disparities revealed in pediatric liver transplant survival rates
  9 Dec 2013
• Researchers investigate use of pig kidneys for human transplant
  7 Dec 2013
• Reorganization of blood vessels after face transplantation surgery
  5 Dec 2013
• Converting stem cells into lung cells
  3 Dec 2013
• Face transplantation: ethical debate has evolved over time
  2 Dec 2013
• When the living and the deceased don't agree on organ donation
  30 Nov 2013
• A mechanism that favors rejection in transplantation of porcine cartilage in humans
  27 Nov 2013
• Amino acid substitution at peptide-binding pockets of HLA class I molecules increases risk of severe acute GVHD and mortality
  26 Nov 2013
• Investigating optimal site for cell transplantation to treat spinal cord injury
  25 Nov 2013
• Opportunistic microorganism could be a signal of transplant rejection
  25 Nov 2013
• Cancer charity breaks new ground with world's first under-18 donor
  20 Nov 2013
• Consensus statement: antibody-mediated rejection in heart transplantation
  20 Nov 2013
• Drug may enhance the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants for select pediatric leukemia patients
  19 Nov 2013
• Donor age not a factor in most corneal transplants
  19 Nov 2013
• Common chemo drug thwarts graft rejection in bone marrow transplants
  15 Nov 2013
• Tailored pre-transplant therapy boosts survival rate in rare immune deficiency
  14 Nov 2013
• Livers from donors with pre-hospital cardiac arrest considered for transplant
  13 Nov 2013
• Life-saving transplant results in end to peanut allergy
  12 Nov 2013
• Hope for transplant patients as study finds key to organ scarring
  11 Nov 2013
• Tissue cryopreservation for medical care moves forward
  7 Nov 2013
• Phase 2 results announced for sofosbuvir-based regimens in hepatitis C patients before and after liver transplantation
  5 Nov 2013
• Potential new targets for blocking graft-vs.-host disease could impact bone marrow transplants
  5 Nov 2013
• Study evaluates early stem cell transplants for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  4 Nov 2013
• Number of patients declared 'brain dead' decreasing
  29 Oct 2013
• Current screening methods make 'high-risk' organs from deceased donors safe
  28 Oct 2013
• Printing tissue using bio-ink made from living cells
  28 Oct 2013
• Paying people to become kidney donors could be cost-effective
  27 Oct 2013
• Discontinuing mycophenolate acid products does not seem to pose risks of transplant rejection during pregnancy
  26 Oct 2013
• Tailored doses of cytostatic improve survival rate
  25 Oct 2013
• Five years on, first ever tissue-engineered airway transplant remains successful
  23 Oct 2013
• Prolactin may help in liver regeneration
  17 Oct 2013
• Young transplant patients 'at higher risk of kidney disease'
  15 Oct 2013
• Stem cell breakthrough could set up future transplant therapies
  14 Oct 2013
• Among young transplant recipients, racial and social disparities in kidney allocation discovered
  14 Oct 2013
• Difficult-to-match blood types and geographic location result in hispanics facing disparities in kidney transplantation
  14 Oct 2013
• Promotion of donor registration increases donor sign-ups
  12 Oct 2013
• New method for improving cord blood transplant success
  11 Oct 2013
• Scientists regenerate fully functional tear and saliva glands
  5 Oct 2013
• Validated novel risk score developed to predict new onset end-stage renal disease
  4 Oct 2013
• NY-Presbyterian/Columbia reports laparoscopic living donor liver retrieval for adults
  30 Sep 2013
• Researchers look at health consequences of living kidney donation
  29 Sep 2013
• Stem-cell fat grafts effective for plastic surgery
  28 Sep 2013
• Common viral disease prevented in stem-cell transplant patients
  27 Sep 2013
• Improved outcomes for patients with type 1 diabetes offered by new islet cell transplant procedure
  24 Sep 2013
• New research on inherited herpesvirus may have implications for transplantation
  23 Sep 2013
• Better source for hepatocytes from neonatal livers rather than adult livers
  20 Sep 2013
• Immune marker predicts transplant success and improves selection of bone marrow donors
  19 Sep 2013
• Transplanting fat may be effective treatment for metabolic disease
  15 Sep 2013
• Programmable glue made of DNA directs tiny gel bricks to self-assemble
  12 Sep 2013
• New data provides insights into the prophylaxis of organ rejection and prophylaxis of fungal infections in liver transplant patients
  11 Sep 2013
• Cell transplants may be a novel treatment for schizophrenia
  11 Sep 2013
• Old cancer drug prevents transplant rejection
  4 Sep 2013
• Scientists identify key predictors of death and transplantation in children with heart muscle disease
  4 Sep 2013
• Socioeconomic factors, not culture, the culprit to low living kidney donations
  3 Sep 2013
• Significant barrier to living kidney donation for African Americans is socioeconomic status
  3 Sep 2013
• Highlights from the XV International Congress of Immunology, Milan
  2 Sep 2013
• 'Breakthrough' method for diabetic transplants discovered
  2 Sep 2013
• Cells taken from the pancreas have their function changed to produce insulin
  2 Sep 2013
• Skin cancer an increased risk for recipients of donor kidneys
  29 Aug 2013
• Discovery of novel way gene controls stem cell self-renewal
  27 Aug 2013
• More evidence supporting development of noninvasive tests for kidney transplant outcomes
  26 Aug 2013
• Access to kidney transplants hampered by unemployment; Full-time workers more likely to get transplants
  21 Aug 2013
• Bypassing immune rejection in stem-cell-based therapies
  20 Aug 2013
• Topical formulation identified for prolonged graft survival in corneal transplants
  20 Aug 2013
• Biomarker identified to predict immune response risk after stem cell transplants
  9 Aug 2013
• Reducing heart disease risk in liver transplant recipients through exercise
  8 Aug 2013
• Novel treatment boosted selective immune attack on leukemia cells in post-transplant patients
  8 Aug 2013
• Fracture risk predicted by quality of bone as well as bone density
  7 Aug 2013
• McMaster researchers find home of best stem cells for bone marrow transplants
  6 Aug 2013
• Bigger the lung, better the transplant success
  2 Aug 2013
• Lung transplant patients may fare better with larger organs - using a predicted total lung capacity ratio may help improve matching process
  1 Aug 2013
• Teens' kidney transplants more likely to fail
  30 Jul 2013