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Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching a living liver donor transplant program, significantly increasing the number of available organs for life-saving transplants

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Keywords: Liver Transplant, Transplant, UNOS, Living Donor, Organ Donor

University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers found that lung transplant recipients with early signs of organ rejection could increase their chance of survival and improve lung function by inhaling a liposomal form of the immunosuppression drug cyclosporine through an investigational nebulizer.

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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, as well as a diverse team of cardiologists and physicists, developed a machine learning algorithm to predict the life expectancy in heart failure patients.

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Keywords: Heart Failure, Cardiology, Heart Tranplant, Surgery, Physics, Algorithm, AI, Bioinformatics, Collaboration, med tech, Physiology, Outcomes, Clinical Trials, Prediction Models

Analysis of more than 29,000 adults listed on the national heart transplant registry from 2006 to 2015 shows how rules that give hospitals discretion in determining who gets a transplant result in large discrepancies in how sick patients are when they receive heart transplants at hospitals across the United States.

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Keywords: Organ Transplant, Heart Transplant, Organ Allocation System, Medical Ethics

Dr. Eugene Chang was 25, recently engaged and halfway through a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency in Vancouver when he started feeling sick. Fatigue, dizziness and nausea took over his normally active lifestyle. Suddenly his bike to work was not so easy.

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Keywords: Stem Cell, Stem Cell Transplantation, Stem Cell Transplant, Cancer, Leukemia, princess margaret cancer centre

The results of numerous high-impact clinical trials that could affect kidney-related medical care will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2019 November 5–November 10 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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Data from a new study presented this week at The Liver Meeting® – held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – found that combination therapy with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) and ezetimibe

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• Extending Medicare coverage of anti-rejection medications beyond 36 months after a kidney transplant would lead to lower costs and an improvement in patients’ quality of life. • Results from the study will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2019 November 5–November 10 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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Using U.S. transplant registry data, clinical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found that kidney transplants between identical twins have high success rates, but also surprisingly high rates of immunosuppressant use.

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Keywords: Living Donor, Kidney Transplant, Identical twins, Immunosuppressants

Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago adds another fetal surgeon to complement its robust program.

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Keywords: Fetal surgry, Surgeon, Pediatrics