News tagged with donor graft
Unrelated kidney donor study shows age and obesity increase complications
Patients who have received a new kidney are significantly more likely to develop transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) if they are obese or over 50, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Left side grafting is procedure of choice for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation
A recent study by doctors at Shinshu University, School of Medicine, in Japan determined that left side grafting has lower risk to donors compared to grafts taken from the right lobe, and it appears to be the procedure of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Transplanted fatty livers associated with worse prognosis for patients with HCV
A new study suggests that patients with hepatitis C (HCV) who need a liver transplant should not receive an organ with high levels of fatty deposits (a.k.a. hepatic steatosis). HCV recurrence was more frequent and earlier ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 13, 2009 |
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