Cedars-Sinai reports excellent outcomes for its cardiac surgery division
...nt recipients with a "bridge to transplant" when a donor heart is notavailable. "We have always had a mission to pursue the finest technical and medical careavailable, using techniques and technologies in existence or developinginnovations to meet patients' needs," said Gregory Fontana, M.D., cardiothoraci...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
... of mixedchimerism, in which the immune systems of donor and recipient are blended in away that prevents re...s. This approach allows the patient to accept the donor marrow butpreserves most of his or her own marrow, leading to the blended immune systemthat characte......transplantation is going tobe met from the cadaver donor source alone without a dramatic and sustained rise...lows surgeons to take part of a liver from aliving donor and transplant it into a family member who has a matching tissuetype. Even as this adult program is ...Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor
...duce her breast cancer risk to near-zero, the donor elected to have a double mastectomy. Her breast tissues now reside in a cell bank as perfectly matched cell types - preserved in liquid nitrogen - that will allow experimental results of today to be compared with experimental ...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...ign tissue. After thetransplant procedure, the new donor thymus tissue in the thighs of thesechildren acted...vea matched sibling who can be used as a source of donor T cells, which cures thedisease. For the remaining infants, there is no long-term treatment short of...Researchers complete sequence and gene map of human major histocompatibility complex
...iations and the variability in this region between donor and recipient is a critical factor in marrow transplant matching. This is the first complete sequence and gene map of the MHC. This information will enable researchers to identify the positions of genes on this important segment of the human geno...Living-donor kidney transplants now being done laparoscopically
...e of the laparoscope to remove the kidney from the donor and transplant into the recipient requires just a ...inch incision, which results in less pain for both donor and recipient. In most cases, both are back to work within one or two weeks of surgery. Surgeons e...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
.... All 27,050 had received an organ from a deceased donor between 1992 and 1997. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days to three years after transplantation. The average cost to Medicare--and thus to taxpayers--of care within three years was roughly $60,436 when the kidney had identical HLA mar...Heart disease begins at a young age
...s two to six weeks following transplantation. The donor hearts were from people who were free of known heart disease. Nevertheless, the researchers saw well-developed atherosclerosis in the arteries of hearts from donors in all age groups -- including teenagers. While 26 of the 36 heart donors between 4...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...commercialized and marketed, creates value for the donor company1s bottom line, Bourne said. "It creates much more value for everyone to license or donate technology that we're not going to use, rather than allow it to sit on a shelf and gradually lose its value to newer technology Clemson is a recognize...Artificial liver moves toward commercialization
...is a liver transplant. Due to a severe shortage of donor organs, many patients die waiting for suitable organs. An artificial liver that provides temporary support of a person's liver function can serve as a bridge to transplant or as a short-term treatment. Prototype devices, which filter bloo...Scientists successfully grow insulin-secreting cells to treat diabetes
...ssful approach, but limited due to the scarcity of donor tissue from cadavers. "Even if you had unlimited s...tissue transplantation, there is simply not enough donor tissue to treat the millions of people who have diabetes," said Fred Levine, M.D., Ph.D., associate ...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
...g cancer cells, and then the marrow from a healthy donor is infused into the patient. Dr. Theise and co-workers subsequently examined liver tissue from the two leukemia patients. Using a microscope and a special staining procedure that gives the Y chromosome an immunofluorescent glow, they identified...Kidney transplant proposal reduces wait from 24 to 14 months, improves equity for blacks & women
...et of historical information about the patient and donor characteristics and their relationship to chance o...se include medical compatibility between potential donor and recipient, length of time waiting on the list, and rank in the waiting list. It also assigns ext......take a life-long regimen of drugs to protect their donor organs from immune system attack, we were curious ...t in order to suppress their ability to attack the donor organ. For both the 11 patients randomized to receive aerosol cyclosporine and nine patients who re...Mechanism found behind drug-free acceptance of transplants
...combative response against the donor organ, researchers found. "It... the patient's cells against the donor antigen. But for these three unusual cases, the footpads did not swell up. ...A&E departments could help resolve the national shortage of corneal donors
...nated, helping to resolve the national shortage of donor corneal tissue. Consent for corneal donation was r...evious year. Of these nine donors, three carried a donor card. Of 24 questionnaires completed, 21 relatives thought it was appropriate to be approached about...New procedure makes kidney transplant an option for thousands on waiting list
...n that we hope will alleviate years of waiting for donor organs," says Dr. Stegall....Cell transplants offer hope of brain repair following stroke
...ents." In both healthy and stroke-damaged brains, donor cells were transplanted into three areas: the cere...the brain - and the eye cavity. Within a week, donor cells grew in all three areas in both healthy and damaged brains. Three to six weeks later, most do......are on U.S. heart transplant lists, but only 2,733 donor hearts were available worldwide in 1999. The devices do not offer the same longevity and quality of life as transplants, the researchers say. But more research with next-generation devices and better management of patients with devices could lead to...