ALLMedicine Organ Transplantation Center

May 27th, 2020 - Organ transplantation is predicted to increase as life expectancy and the incidence of chronic diseases rises. Regenerative medicine-inspired technologies challenge the efficacy of the current allograft transplantation model. A literature review w...

May 26th, 2020 - Tacrolimus (Tac) is an effective anti-rejection agent in kidney transplantation, but its off-target effects make withdrawal desirable. Although studies indicate that Tac can be safely withdrawn in a subset of kidney transplant recipients, immune m...

May 26th, 2020 - The lack of organ donors has become a limiting factor for the development of organ transplantation programs. Many countries are currently facing a severe shortage of organs for transplantation. Medical students, as future doctors can engage in the...

May 24th, 2020 - Pediatric organ donation represents only a low proportion of overall organ donation in many parts of world, unable to match the needs for pediatric organ transplantation. Pediatric organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) is i...

May 24th, 2020 - Use of cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) represents a state-of-the-art approach for reducing general immunosuppression in organ transplantation. We tested multiple regulatory CBMPs in kidney transplant trials to establish the safety of regulat...

Mar 29th, 2018 - Despite recent advances, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections remain one of the most common complications affecting solid organ transplant recipients, conveying higher risks of complications, graft loss, morbidity, and mortality. Research in the field...

Dec 31st, 2017 - Improved therapy has substantially increased survival of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF). But the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in adults with CF is 5-10 times greater compared to the general population, and 25-30 times greater in CF patients ...

Nov 3rd, 2015 - Long-term Outcome of Living Kidney Donation: Position Paper of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation, Council of Europe.|2015|Cozzi E,Biancone L,López-Fraga M,Nanni-Costa A, ,|standards,diagnosis,mortality,surgery,adverse effects,mortali...

Aug 14th, 2015 - Since Italian liver allocation policy was last revised (in 2012), relevant critical issues and conceptual advances have emerged, calling for significant improvements. We report the results of a national consensus conference process, promoted by th...

Feb 24th, 2015 - Use of organs from donors testing positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) may safely expand the donor pool. The American Society of Transplantation convened a multidisciplinary expert panel that reviewed the existing literature and developed consensu...

May 27th, 2020 - Organ transplantation is predicted to increase as life expectancy and the incidence of chronic diseases rises. Regenerative medicine-inspired technologies challenge the efficacy of the current allograft transplantation model. A literature review w...

May 26th, 2020 - Tacrolimus (Tac) is an effective anti-rejection agent in kidney transplantation, but its off-target effects make withdrawal desirable. Although studies indicate that Tac can be safely withdrawn in a subset of kidney transplant recipients, immune m...

May 26th, 2020 - The lack of organ donors has become a limiting factor for the development of organ transplantation programs. Many countries are currently facing a severe shortage of organs for transplantation. Medical students, as future doctors can engage in the...

May 24th, 2020 - Pediatric organ donation represents only a low proportion of overall organ donation in many parts of world, unable to match the needs for pediatric organ transplantation. Pediatric organ donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) is i...

May 24th, 2020 - Use of cell-based medicinal products (CBMPs) represents a state-of-the-art approach for reducing general immunosuppression in organ transplantation. We tested multiple regulatory CBMPs in kidney transplant trials to establish the safety of regulat...

May 11th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp drop in organ transplantation in the United States and France, a new report in The Lancet shows. From late February to early April, deceased donor transplantations fell by 51.1% ...

Dec 25th, 2019 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Solid-organ transplantation is not associated with worse prostate-cancer mortality, though it is associated with increased overall mortality, according to a database analysis. "Our study findings have important implicat...

Oct 8th, 2019 - In her second career as a bioethicist, a former general practitioner is reshaping the scientific literature of organ transplantation. Wendy Rogers, BMBS. Chris Stacey, Macquarie University From 1983 to 2000, Wendy Rogers, BMBS, practiced primary c...

Aug 26th, 2019 - Deceased-donor kidneys are twice as likely to be discarded in the United States as they are in France, according to a study published online August 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. "The high discard rate of deceased-donor kidneys is a major concern f...

Aug 26th, 2019 - From 2004 to 2014, the U.S. was twice as likely to discard potential donor kidneys than was France, with researchers suggesting the latter country had the better approach. In a head-to-head comparison, the U.S. discard rate for deceased-donor kidn...