A man fights his disease and the system that might kill him (5×8 – 3/2/12)Minnesota Public RadioAccording to his Tumblr page, Beeson had arranged for a "living donor liver transplantation" from his brother in which a piece of the "good&q…
Remote noninvasive allograft rejection monitoring for heart transplant …7thSpace Interactive (press release)Acute allograft rejection is a major cause of early mortality in the first year after heart transplantation in adults. Although endomyocardial…
Fresh from the Pipeline: TafamidisNature.comTreatments are primarily symptomatic, such as analgesics for neuropathic pain, although liver transplantation to reduce the formation of additional amyloid deposits (by removing the main source of TTR) seems …
FTC Requires Fresenius to Sell 60 ClinicsRenal Business TodayKidney transplantation is the only alternative treatment to dialysis services, but the wait-time for a replacement kidney can be more than five years, and during that time these patients must…
Ultrasound-based TE more accurate in detecting hepatic fibrosisNews-Medical.netResearchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due to recurrent in…
FOX 8 News WVUE-TVLife-saving gift gives man "Second Wind"FOX 8 News WVUE-TV… this idiopathic is because we really don't know what causes it, and unfortunately, there's no treatment for it," said Reinaldo Rampolla, MD with Ochs…
Study: US elastography may best biopsy in diagnosis of liver fibrosisHealth ImagingUltrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due to recurrent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infec…
Ultrasound technology proves accurate in diagnosing cirrhosis from recurrent …Medical XpressResearchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due …
Ultrasound technology proves accurate in diagnosing cirrhosis from recurrent …EurekAlert (press release)Researchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting ci…
3 get new lease of life under govt health insurance schemeIBNLive.comPTI | 03:02 PM,Feb 26,2012 Coimbatore, Feb 26 (PTI): Three poor patients needing immediate kidney transplantation have got a new lease of life after surgeries at a city hospital throu…