Intestine Transplant Results Reported At American Society Of Transplantation Meeting
...e intestinal failure. The small intestine can be transplanted in one of three ways: alone; incombination with t...s have significantly improved survival forpatients transplanted in the last four years, for whom there is a cumulative 65percent survival rate. Thirty-five patient...New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...face. "High PRA can cause immediate rejection of a transplanted kidney, in spite ofthe powerful anti-rejection medications we have available," says Stephen T.Bartlett, M.D., head of the division of transplant surgery at the University ofMaryland Medical Center and professor of surgery and medicine a the Universit...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...atients facing twohazards," says Spitzer. "If the transplanted marrow doesn't take or isrejected, patients are le... specific type of lymphocyte involved in rejecting transplanted tissues. The current study is the first to achieve intentional mixed chimerism in humanpatients rec...Cellular Implants Explored For Brain Trauma
...eveloped at Penn ten years ago - were successfully transplanted into a strokepatient in Pittsburgh. Recent article...an injury, andinfuse growth factors along with the transplanted cells....Medical tip sheet for June 4 (a)
...pears to significantly reduce the rejection riskof transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinicaltrials but already has been adopted as an effective tool by most majortransplant centers throughout the country. The therapy was developed atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Consist...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...o drugs that block glutamate's actionmight protect transplanted cells from excitotoxic damage." Eugene M. Johnson ... labeling methods,the researchers will distinguish transplanted cells from host cells anddetermine how far they have migrated or sent projections from the transplan...13 lifelines successfully used in unique umbilical cord blood transplant into ailing adult
... thefirst incidences of umbilical cord blood being transplanted into a larger adult. Typically the valuable blood has been transplanted into individuals weighingunder 95 pounds, children. The patient, 45 year-old Michael Giordano, is do...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
...t to discontinue drugtreatment without rejecting a transplanted kidney. The patient, a woman who developed kidne...are blended in away that prevents rejection of the transplanted kidney by the recipient's bodyand suppresses an attack of the donor's immune cells on the recipient'......e two lives, a segment of a living donor'sliver is transplanted to a related or unrelated individual, or in a"reduced-size" transplant, a cadaver liver is cut down to fit a smallerrecipient. "Reduced-size transplants have been around for a long time, and there arecircumstances in which they are appropriate and ne...Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
... Eaglesays. "It's still discouraging that half the transplanted veins become cloggedwithin 10 years. Bypass patients can and should take the same medications asthose who do not opt for surgery." The guidelines conclude that for certain classes of patients, bypass can be justas effective and cost-effective as othe...NIAID spearheads collaborative network for clinical research on immune tolerance
...disable the immune cells responsible for attacking transplanted organs whileallowing other immune cells to functio...clinical trials are planned for patients receiving transplanted humanislets to treat juvenile or type 1 diabetes, a disease caused by the autoimmunedestruction of i...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...esponse." Three other children who received transplanted thymus tissue later died,the researchers said. Two were on a ventilator at the time they were treated andthe third required a ventilator soon after transplant. They all developedinfections in their lungs that would not clear, Markert said. Even so, T...Soy substances slow prostate cancer growth in animals
... growth of human prostate cancer cells transplanted into mice. Soy protein isolate is a high quality protein made from whole soy; it contains a very small amount of isoflavones. Soy phytochemical concentrate is an extract of soy tha...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...led HLA markers, had little effect on rejection of transplanted kidneys. In contrast, a new study of 27,050 kidney...er of mismatched tissues increased. "Although the transplanted kidney remains functional in patients with more mismatches, the patient doesn't do as well, and that...Gene therapy reverses heart disease in mice
...rnal of the American Heart Association.Researchers transplanted a gene for the human version of apolipoprotein E (apoE) into a strain of mice bred specifically for the experiment. ApoE is a key protein involved in transporting and clearing cholesterol from the body. The animals getting the apoE gene had signific...Making kidney transplants last longer: Large UM study finds newer drug is better
..." to help suppress the body's immune response to a transplanted organ. The report, based on one of the largest-e...ho receive a kidney at the UM. In 1998, UM doctors transplanted 198 kidneys. MMF targets two kinds of white blood cells, called T and B lymphocytes, that the body...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
...w. Women's cells contain two X chromosomes, so the transplanted liver cells contained only X chromsomes. Thus, the cells with Y chromosomes had to come from elsewhere in the body and the bone marrow seems the mostly likely place, says Dr. Theise. In one of the men who received a transplant and who suffered ...Repairing brain damage from stroke may be possible with brain cell transplants
...s received either two million or six million cells transplanted into three sites within and around the stroke-dama...splant in six of the patients, suggesting that the transplanted cells may be integrating with existing tissue and functioning. "We can't draw any conclusions ab......s the anti-rejection drug cyclosporine directly to transplanted lungs appears to target an important biological pr...o determine if delivering the drug directly to the transplanted organ -- where immune system cells would be waging a front-line battle -- would hamper the pump in a...