Denver physician patents minimally invasive technology for hair transplantation surgery
...air. Although much less invasive than traditional donor harvesting, FUE can be time consuming, potentially damaging to hair follicles, expensive and is only appropriate for a small percentage of patients. "With traditional FUE, I found that only about 30 to 40 percent of patients were candidates," expl...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...eons make repairs. The machine must be primed with donor blood because babies do not have enough of their o...diopulmonary bypass machine was that the patient's donor exposure was decreased: one donor as compared to two donors with the reconstituted blood. That risk ...Biotech breakthrough in islet cell replacement for type 1 diabetes
...replace the destroyed islet cells with functioning donor cells. Although islet cell transplantation has b...s widespread use has been impeded by a shortage of donor organs, inefficient islet engraftment and organ rejection. "The collective efforts of the investig...Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...asymptomatic nature and long incubation, impact of donor deferral on the blood supply, how the UK is addres... comparison of Canadian policies, surveillance and donor deferral measures with those of the US. Laurie Garrett. Gates Senior Fellow in Global Health for...Screening for virus RNA could increase safety of organ & tissue transplantation
...eronegative organ donors, and one HCV RNA-positive donor in 631 HCV-seronegative tissue donors. No HIV-seronegative, HIV RNA-positive donor was identified. Dr Pawlotsky comments: "our data, together with the reported cases of HCV transmiss...Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...lantation in these patients when a matched sibling donor is available," said Mary Eapen, MBBS, MS, Assistan...gned clinical trial to define the role, if any, of donor peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in children." Background Leukemia is cancer of the bone...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
... there will be emphasis on dialogue with potential donor organisations. "TIGER was born out of ESA's participation in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg," explained ESA's Josef Aschbacher. "The Summit reaffirmed the importance of sustainable economic, social and enviro...Churches nationwide issue plea for increased rates of African American organ donation
...ome experts believe patients fare better when both donor and recipient are from the same racial or ethnic g...peakers also encourage attendees to fill out organ donor cards and discuss with their families the decision to donate. "We're working hard to dispel myths a...Combining liver transplantation and coronary artery bypass grafting can be safe and effective
...to the positive results observed including careful donor selection, keeping the chest wound open during the liver transplant to inspect for hemostasis, and monitoring patients post-operatively using ultrasonography. "The one-year mortality rates are comparable with OLT alone and, in general, ICU stay and ...Doctors transplant ovary to woman's arm to preserve fertility
... cancer. This method does not require developing a donor site with an implant over several months and utilizes a donor site that is easily accessible to noninvasive monitoring and has suitable vasculature. Autotransplan...Stem cell therapy effectively treats heart attacks in animals
...meaning they can be extracted from the patient, no donor is required, and the cells can be simply reproduced if more are needed. In our animal experiment, the treatment regimen was relatively simple, requiring only injection to the damaged tissue. The therapy was extremely effective, allowing for almost ...Ventricular assist devices can be used as bridge to heart recovery without need for heart transplant
..., maintaining a patient's cardiac function until a donor organ becomes available. In some cases, the device rests the heart and allows it to heal without the need for heart transplantation. The frequency of this occurrence and the patients most likely to benefit from VAD as a bridge to heart recovery remai...Leukemia patients survive with stem cell transplant
...ors and their patients when a matching bone marrow donor cannot be found. A patient's best chance for survival comes from a bone marrow donor who is related to the patient and matches the patient's tissue type. A bone marrow transplant from a...Stem cells to the rescue - or not?
...he past, marker proteins that show the location of donor stem cells within damaged tissue of the recipient ... not been able to definitively distinguish between donor and recipient cells, which raises the possibility that the recipients own cells have in fact been re...Study shows haploidentical natural killer cells may provide hope for some patients with AML
...irst to successfully demonstrate that half-matched donor (haploidentical) natural killer cells that are transfused into a patient with AML can survive and persist to actively attack and kill the deadly cancer cells. As a result, the disease may go into remission and make the patient eligible for bone marro...Blacks and poor more likely to donate than receive many types of transplant organs
...kely to be recipients for 6 of 8 types of deceased donor transplants (heart-lung, intestine, kidney-pancrea...kely to be recipients for 7 of 8 types of deceased donor transplants. Transplantation is the best treatment for many types of permanent organ failure. Organ...Multi-center study finds therapy boosts kidney transplants in 'highly sensitized' patients
...proved and waiting lists for the limited number of donor organs grew. Dr. Jordan began to develop the concept of using immunoglobulins in a transplant environment in the late 1980s as IVIG was becoming established as a therapy for immune system disorders. The proteins, naturally produced in the body, can a...Reducing anti-rejection meds after transplant shows less complications
...s T cells key immune system cells that target the donor organ, or a similar drug called campath, which depletes both T and B cells, immune system cells involved in organ rejection. Following transplantation, the 103 patients who received thymoglobulin and the 20 patients who received campath received t...Kinder, gentler procedure gives superior results for stem cell transplants
...place a patient's bone marrow with stem cells from donor marrow, peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood, ...splants. In a successful stem cell transplant, the donor stem cells become permanently established, or engrafted, in the patient's bone marrow and continuall...Stanford study finds new method improves chemotherapy survival in mice
...t an infusion of a type of bone marrow cell from a donor mouse yielded significantly more neutrophils in the laboratory mice a week after a dose of a typical chemotherapeutic agent. The procedure also increased the animals' ability to fight a deadly fungal infection. The team's findings appear in the Dec. ...