ILTS 2012 Report – Select elderly liver donor grafts perform the same as usual grafts, study finds
by Thomas R. Collins – Liver transplants involving selected organs from elderly patients performed just as well as livers from usual donors,
by Thomas R. Collins – Liver transplants involving selected organs from elderly patients performed just as well as livers from usual donors,
by Thomas R. Collins – Doing a biopsy on a liver before the organ is procured for transplantation is helpful only when done for certain potential organ donors,
by Thomas R. Collins – With a scarcity of livers available for transplantation, there is a tremendous pressure on the medical community to make the best use of… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – A living donor liver transplant can be a safe and effective first-line treatment for very young children with biliary atresia,
by Thomas R. Collins – Establishing and adhering to management goals for organ donors boosts the percentage of livers that are utilized,
Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.
by Bruce Sylvester – Two studies presented at EASL suggest the real human and economic costs of liver disease across Europe.
by Bruce Sylvester – Diabetes adds to hearing loss with age among women, if it is not well controlled with medication,
Taken from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – by Bruce Sylvester – Aortic stenosis patients who are too ill to undergo open-heart surgery have achieved better… read more.
Quality-of-life issues gaining prominence as long-term cancer survival rates increase. More than 80 percent of radiation oncologists discuss the impact of cancer treatments on fertility with their patients… read more.
by Dr Sunil Upadhyay – Age is the number one risk factor for the development of breast cancer. Not only the incidence but also the mortality from breast… read more.
Like special-forces troops laser-tagging targets for a bomber pilot, tiny particles that can be imaged three different ways at once have enabled Stanford University School of Medicine scientists… read more.
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