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Salem man receives long awaited heart transplant
WDBJ7 Phillip Adams from Salem got the call he’d been waiting for. A heart he had waited years for was available. In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 20, Adams underwent heart transplant surgery at U-V-A Medical Center in Charlottesville. Adams … |
Global Hospitals Launches Institute of Liver Diseases, HPB Surgery and … – Free Press Journal
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Global Hospitals Launches Institute of Liver Diseases, HPB Surgery and …
Free Press Journal Mumbai now has a multi-super-specialty tertiary care hospital that is one of India’s leading hospital chains in complex surgeries and multi-organ transplantation. The Global Hospitals Group with experience and expertise of performing successfully over … |
Perminova Aims to Monitor Chest Fluid for Early Detection of Heart Failure and … – Medgadget.com
Perminova Aims to Monitor Chest Fluid for Early Detection of Heart Failure and …Medgadget.comBeing able to detect the escalating pleural effusions in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF), cancer, and other conditions could prevent clinical de…
Boy with 6kg-tumour gets new life – Times of India
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Boy with 6kg-tumour gets new life
Times of India … it hadn’t responded to chemotherapy,” recounted Soma De, deputy in charge of paediatric oncology. The doctors then decided on immediate surgery. “The tumour compressed the lung, diaphragm and stomach. Breathing had become a struggle for Prabhat. |
Organ donations from deceased donors up 17 per cent over past decade – Globalnews.ca
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Organ donations from deceased donors up 17 per cent over past decade
Globalnews.ca TORONTO – There’s a spot of needed good news in the arena of organ transplant as donations from deceased donors rose by 17 per cent in the 10 years leading up to 2012, according to a new national report. The number of deceased donors surpassed the … |
Necklace sensor could be early warning system for heart failure – mobihealthnews
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Necklace sensor could be early warning system for heart failure
mobihealthnews Necklace-21-Fev-043-2-300×221 A startup called Perminova is developing a necklace for clinical use that can track a number of vital signs including thoracic fluid levels, an early predictor of congestive heart failure that isn’t currently monitored by … Perminova Aims to Monitor Chest Fluid for Early Detection of Heart Failure and …Medgadget.com |
CHOP Launches NGS-based HLA Typing Service – GenomeWeb
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CHOP Launches NGS-based HLA Typing Service
GenomeWeb The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has begun offering next-gen sequencing-based HLA typing services internally. Dimitri Monos, director of the immunogenetics laboratory within CHOP’s Division of Genome Diagnostics, told Clinical Sequencing News … |
THYMISTEM researches stem cell therapies for damaged immune systems – Cordis News
Cordis NewsTHYMISTEM researches stem cell therapies for damaged immune systemsCordis NewsThe thymus plays a central role in the development of our immune system by producing important immune cells. However, this crucial organ deteriorates with age and …
Ten questions for a transplant dietitian – NephrologyNews.com
Ten questions for a transplant dietitianNephrologyNews.comOn the other hand, chronic allograft nephropathy is a slow loss of renal function over time that could be related to complications from their original disease process, pre-existing conditions or…
Organ donor idea that ticks all the boxes – Central Western Daily
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Organ donor idea that ticks all the boxes
Central Western Daily Dr Giubilini said raising the profile of the need to donate was another way to encourage organ donation but an opt-out system was a more effective way. “In countries such as Austria, Belgium, and Singapore people will become deceased donors unless they … |