Affordable anti-rejection drug as effective as higher cost option Oct 15, 2009
As a result of the study, the Wake Forest Baptist Transplant Program has adopted the newer drug as part of its standard anti-rejection protocol for kidney and pancreas transplantation, Farney said. . (EurekAlert!)
Single Kidney Transplant From Young, Deceased Donors Works Well Aug 25, 2009
"Basically, the normal practice of giving two small kidneys to an adult is unnecessary," said study author Dr. Rubin Zhang, medical director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at the Tulane University Abdominal Transplant Institute in New Orleans ... D., medical director, kidney and pancreas transplantation, Tulane Abdominal Transplant Institute, New Orleans; Jeremiah Lowney, D.O., family practice, internal medicine and medical advisor, MatchingDonors. (MEDLINEplus)
Is a living liver donation worth the risk? Aug 9, 2009
We believe our researchers used a more rigorous system and more rigorously applied the criteria" to track postoperative problems. If that is true, though, it would mean that more than half of all living donor recipients in America may suffer potentially life threatening complications. Dr. Satoru Todo, a liver transplant surgeon at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, said in an e-mail interview that living donor transplants are a challenging type of surgery. "It is a... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Adult Type 1 Diabetics Have Higher Depression Rates Jun 16, 2009
Diabetes complications were also self-reported and included retinopathy, blindness, neuropathy, diabetes-related amputation, and kidney or pancreas transplantation. The results showed that adults with type 1 diabetes were more than twice as likely as those without diabetes to have depression and almost three times as likely to have a clinically significant score on the BDI-II. Adult type 1 patients were also nearly twice as likely to be on antidepressant medications as nondiabetics (20. (MEDLINEplus)
