NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Liver transplant recipients whose indication for transplant was hepatitis C virus (HCV) cirrhosis have markedly poorer survival compared to patients transplanted for alcoholic…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that survival is similar for smokers and non-smokers who undergo liver transplantation. At least one large insurance company is denying…
James N. Gladstone, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedics, Co-chief, Division of Sports Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses cartilage cell transplantation, one of the most exciting technologies…
Frank A. Papay, MD, FACS, FAAP, Chairman of the Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, discusses the face transplant carried out at the Cleveland Clinic, and the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rituximab (Rituxan) has been implicated in 57 cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in HIV-negative patients diagnosed with hematologic malignancies or autoimmune diseases,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – As a treatment for type 1 diabetes with kidney dysfunction, simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation (SPK) provides better survival than kidney transplantation alone, even if…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, high-dose immune ablation followed by autologous nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) induces significant and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 4, adding nitazoxanide to peginterferon alfa-2a and ribavirin improves the virologic response rates, new research shows.…
Jorge D. Reyes, MD, Director of Transplant Program, Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, discusses the issues surrounding CMV prophylaxis in pediatric transplant recipients. References and Resources…
Josh Levitsky, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Hepatology, Northwestern University, discusses the management of patients in acute liver failure. References and Resources O’Neal H, Olds J, Webster N.…