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Gift of Life campaign: Australia lagging behind other countries when it comes …
NEWS.com.au Professor Allan Glanville, medical director of lung transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital, said the issue had been politicised after he and other frontline workers and transplant recipients pushed for change in 2009. “The OTA was born, but progress … |
Times of IndiaFilm comedian Amanchi Venkata Subramanyam dies at 56Times of IndiaHis daughter was the donor when he underwent a liver transplantation. Ten days ago, the actor was rushed to hospital. He could not recover from the kidney failure this time…
Gilead Sciences, Inc. : Gilead Announces Phase 2 Results for Sofosbuvir-Based …4-traders (press release)In a second study conducted among post-transplant HCV patients (Study 0126), patients with established recurrent HCV infection following liver tra…
NDTVGilead announces Phase II results in hepatitis C trialsVaccine News DailyGilead scientists evaluated the treatment regimen of an investigational once-daily nucleotide analogue of sofosbuvir plus ribavirin for the prevention and treatment of chronic…
Birmingham research tackles liver transplant failureHealthCanal.comThe trial involved 23 patients undergoing liver transplantation. Thirteen control patients did not receive the drug, and the remaining 10 patients were given ITX5061 on the day of their…
Steroids No Help in Pediatric Biliary AtresiaMedPage TodayBezerra noted that biliary atresia, a rapidly fibrosing cholangiopathy that obstructs the extrahepatic bile duct, is the most common cause of end-stage cirrhosis in children and the most frequen…
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Closer to cryopreservation: New findings could overcome obstacles to freezing …
Fox News “Now if you want to do a (lung) transplantation, you’re rushing the harvest organ from one hospital to another by helicopter, and you only have a few hours to do it. But if you’re able to preserve the tissue, then you have as much time as you want and … |
More HCV Patients on Transplant ListsMedPage TodayFlemming and colleagues looked at data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients for January 2003 through December 2010 to estimate longitudinal trends in liver transplantation secondary to …
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Simple tool to identify patients at risk of engaging in “medication tradeoffs …
News-Medical.net Researchers conducted detailed, in-person interviews with 105 patients at the two transplant centers who underwent liver transplantation in 2011 and 2012 with the goal of exploring relationships between medication tradeoffs, medication non-adherence … |
Liver Meeting speaker: HCC exceptions contributing to MELD inflation …HealioResearchers analyzed all adult, initial transplant candidates listed for liver transplantation from 2005 to 2012, other than status one candidates, to determine whether HCC e…