Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have identified a clutch of cells that — if seen in a male patient’s blood after receiving a brand-new immune system in the form of a bone-marrow transplant from a female donor — herald the onset of chronic graft-versus-host disease, or cGVHD. In this devastating syndrome, the patient’s tissues come under a vicious and enduring assault by …
Dual-tracer PET/CT may be more effective than contrast-enhanced CT for staging of hepatocellular carcinoma for evaluation of liver transplant suitability.
A stem cell transplant study led to a Lowcountry cat taking part in a ground-breaking treatment Monday morning. Now, the experimental study might give her a new lease on life.
AMSTERDAM: It may sound like the most unappealing treatment available, but a European study has concluded that inserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut of somebody with severe diarrhoea may cure their problem better than antibiotics.
Jan 17 (Reuters) – It may sound like the most unappealingtreatment available, but a European study has concluded thatinserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut ofsomebody with severe diarrhea may cure their problem better thanantibioti…
It may sound like the most unappealing treatment available, but a small new study has concluded that inserting fecal material from a healthy person into the gut of someone with severe diarrhea may cure their problem more effectively than antibiotics.
Transplant far more successful in beating infection than drugs, report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows
TORONTO – Fecal transplants cure most cases of persistent C. difficile infection, a landmark study shows.
In a research review article published in the American Journal of Nephrology, Saint Louis University investigators examined data from multiple studies to better understand how obesity, an epidemic in the U.S., impacts kidney transplant patients.
Saint Louis University researchers examine outcomes for obese kidney transplant recipients.