U of MN Center for Bioethics receives grant to study living donor lung transplantation
...be from another recipient potentially putting two donors at risk.While the risk of complication is currentl...or kidney transplants, adding that no partial lung donors have died after surgery. The grant will support Valapour as she tries to identify factors that enco...The UK's third case of vCJD associated with blood transfusion
... patients both had a single blood transfusion from donors who later developed vCJD. One of these patients developed clinical signs of vCJD 6.5 years post-transfusion and died 13 months later. The second patient did not develop vCJD and died of an unrelated cause 5 years post-transfusion. The diagnosis of t...Blood transfusions raise heart patients' infection and death risk -- especially women
...ration, those who received blood transfusions from donors were five times more likely to die within 100 days of their operation than those who did not. The paper is published in the December issue of the American Heart Journal. It builds on a previous U-M analysis that found that a difference in infection...Scientists develop method to remove prion infectivity from scrapie-infected blood
...ple have died from vCJD after receiving blood from donors who later went on to develop the disease. Selectively removing prion infectivity from donated blood might be one of the best ways of reducing the risk of transmission. Robert Rohwer and colleagues screened millions of molecules to find one, called ...Einstein's tea leaves inspire new blood separation technique
...lesterol levels, drugs in athletes, blood types in donors and glucose levels in diabetics. Current testing requires samples to be taken in a doctor's office and sent off to a laboratory and analyzed with a large centrifuge, a process that can take several days. In the new method, a tiny amount of blood ent...Bird flu -- Call for antiviral drugs to be shared
... virus by many months, to the benefit of both drug donors and recipients....Emory algorithm improves kidney transplant chances for sensitized patients
...own, may even change the way kidneys from deceased donors are allocated in the United States. Sensitized patients have developed antibodies against human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which play an important role in the body's immune response to foreign tissue. These patients represent one-third of the nat...USC professor at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles receives $2.5M for stem cell research
...my patients face. Matched stem cells from healthy donors are often not available and the immune system recovers poorly after transplantation." According to Martin Pera, Ph.D., director of USC's Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM), USC stem cell scientists and Childrens Hospital Los Ang...OHSU surgeon implants donated tissue allografts
... a priority basis back to the communities that the donors came from. The fresh cartilage allografts are extensively tested to assure bacteria and viral free grafts are provided to surgeons specializing in cartilage restoration surgery. Tissues can be maintained for up to 28 days in a medium that keeps the c...Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to deliver HIV, TB and malaria treatments
...pporting health workforces," they say. "Most other donors are forced to aim for sustainability in the conventional sense, implying that beneficiary countries should gradually replace international funding with domestic resources, whereas the Global Fund has been promised sustained funding by the internation...Livestock interventions can protect lives, livelihoods
...d. These ideas are not new, but aid agencies both donors and NGOs struggle with this approach. We also nee...ke sense both for the affected communities and for donors as the de-stocking in Ethiopia had a benefit-cost ratio of around 41:1. It makes far more sense to s...ISHLT membership explores expansion of computer modeling system for organ allocation
...nformation is entered into a computer database and donors are then matched with recipients based on specific characteristics. Two of the most important criteria are the chance of survival without the transplant and the projected condition of the patient post transplant. The computer program then generates...Who receives a kidney transplant first?
...t on public understanding and support, for without donors and recipients, transplantation would simply not exist," says Shapiro. ...Machine preservation may promote more organ sharing
..., N.C. -- Preserving the kidneys of deceased older donors on a pump as opposed to the conventional method o... Sharing, only 21 percent of kidneys from deceased donors are preserved on a pump. The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes in kidney transplant pa...Study evaluates why blacks do not successfully donate kidneys
...onnaires and charts for 541 disqualified potential donors were reviewed. The disqualified donors were all identified by documented information race, gender and cause of donor exclusion. In some ca...Blood transfusions from precancerous blood donors do not increase risk of cancer
...o evidence to suggest that blood transfusions from donors with undiagnosed cancer are associated with increa...r incidence among patients who received blood from donors deemed to have a subclinical cancer at the time of donation. Using data from all computerised blo...Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
...he researchers used blood samples from ten healthy donors to form 226 small clots, exposed the clots to fresh-frozen human plasma and tPA at various temperatures, then measured how much mass the clots lost. Shaw says that while he and his colleagues fully expected to find that tPA is less effective at low...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...ansplanting livers from hepatitis C (HCV)-infected donors into recipients with HCV-related cirrhosis. This ...nt outcomes for liver recipients from HCV-infected donors to those for standard, non-extended criteria (ECD) donors to determine the possible benefits or cons...Developments in tissue engineering offer new sources for stem cell treatments
...Urine samples were obtained from nine healthy male donors and cells were isolated, expanded and characterized with cell-specific surface markers. After being seeded on collagen-based matrices in vitro, the tissues were implanted subcutaneously into athymic mice. The implanted cells formed multilayered tiss......on malaria control Lack of coordination between donors and international health agencies is leading to the needless deaths of too many African children from malaria, says a team of health researchers from Burkina Faso and the University of Heidelberg. Bocar Kouyat (Centre National de Recherche et de la...