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New Drugs, New Approaches to Transplant Technologies Presented at Annual Meeting

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New Islet Cell TRansplantation Centers Boost Research on Diabetes Cure

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At the AST Annual Scientific Meeting, researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, will discuss studies which that show that splitting livers from donors--transplanting into two recipients--can be an effective way to meet the need for donated organs.

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A new study shows that important increases in recovery from chronic hepatitis B are obtained by prolonging the therapy up to four months, according to a study in the July issue of HEPATOLOGY.

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The results of the first international study of quality of life outcomes in hepatitis C conducted by the International Hepatitis Interventional Therapy Group are reported by Ware and his colleagues in the August issue of HEPATOLOGY, the monthly peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).

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A new study released for the first time at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 1999 annual meeting suggests that the United States may soon be seeing an increase in carcinoma cases related to hepatitis C virus infection.

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1- impact of race to hepatitis treatment, 2- transmission of hepatitis from mother to infant, and 3- missed diagnoses of liver disease described at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Annual Meeting in Dallas Nov 5-9.

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Genetic factors play a role in the development of advanced alcoholic liver disease (ALD) in heavy drinkers, suggests a new study released at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 2000 Annual Meeting in Dallas, October 29 -- 31.

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This tip sheet highlights only a few of the hundreds of abstracts being presented by members of the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases at Digestive Disease Week, the largest international meeting of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.

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A new study presented this week at The Liver Meeting® — held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases — found that increased utilization of split liver transplantation (sharing a donor liver between one pediatric and one adult patient) could decrease the number of children who die awaiting liver transplantation without decreasing liver transplantation access for adult patients.