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Research & Reviews 4,114 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02858323
Aug 4th, 2022 - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alloimmunization is common in patients undergoing frequent platelet transfusion, and is the most important cause of immune platelet refractoriness. Management strategies in HLA alloimmune platelet-refractory patients ...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02750397
Aug 3rd, 2022 - This is an observational study designed to evaluate safety and outcomes of solid organ transplantation in HIV+ recipients of HIV+ deceased donors. This study will evaluate overall survival and graft survival compared to transplantation with an HIV...
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-022-02457-9
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases; Kim SY, Ko S et. al.
Aug 3rd, 2022 - Aminoacyl tRNA transferases play an essential role in protein biosynthesis, and variants of these enzymes result in various human diseases. FARSA, which encodes the α subunit of cytosolic phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase, was recently reported as a su...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2022.04.032
Transplantation Proceedings; Qin L, Zheng W et. al.
Aug 3rd, 2022 - T cell immunoglobulin domain, and mucin domain-3 (Tim-3) is associated with immunosuppression, immune tolerance, and rejection after organ transplantation, but there are no reports of rejection after human liver transplantation. This study aimed t...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9329518
Transplant International : Official Journal of the Europe... Prüfe J
Aug 2nd, 2022 - This manuscript aims to outline ethical, legal, and psychosocial key situations in the context of transplantation under special consideration of children. Besides being particularly vulnerable, children as minors by law are not meant to consent to...
Guidelines 14 results
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2022.03.005
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation : the Offic... Holm AM, Courtwright A et. al.
Apr 5th, 2022 - Controlled organ donation after circulatory determination of death is increasingly being used for the donation of organs also in thoracic transplantation. This document outlines the position of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transpla...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009216
Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer; Gonzalez-Cao M, Puertolas T et. al.
Mar 31st, 2021 - Cancer immunotherapy based on the use of antibodies targeting the so-called checkpoint inhibitors, such as programmed cell death-1 receptor, its ligand, or CTLA-4, has shown durable clinical benefit and survival improvement in melanoma and other t...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2020.05.004
Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD; Conte C, Maggiore U et. al.
Jul 2nd, 2020 - Chronic metabolic alterations such as post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM), dyslipidaemias and overweight/obesity significantly impact on kidney transplant (KT) outcomes. This joint position statement is based on the evidence on the management...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2020.03.002
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : Off... Nicoara A, Skubas N et. al.
Jun 7th, 2020 - Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is a standard diagnostic and monitoring tool employed in the management of patients undergoing an entire spectrum of cardiac surgical procedures, ranging from "routine" surgical coronary revasculariz...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2019.12.025
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology; Chih S, McDonald M et. al.
Mar 9th, 2020 - Significant practice-changing developments have occurred in the care of heart transplantation candidates and recipients over the past decade. This Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network Position Statement provides evid...
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Clinicaltrials.gov 305 results
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02858323
Aug 4th, 2022 - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alloimmunization is common in patients undergoing frequent platelet transfusion, and is the most important cause of immune platelet refractoriness. Management strategies in HLA alloimmune platelet-refractory patients ...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02750397
Aug 3rd, 2022 - This is an observational study designed to evaluate safety and outcomes of solid organ transplantation in HIV+ recipients of HIV+ deceased donors. This study will evaluate overall survival and graft survival compared to transplantation with an HIV...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03617445
Aug 2nd, 2022 - Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) is a pathogen of major public health importance, especially in individuals with comorbid conditions such as solid organ transplantation (SOT). The incidence and adverse outcomes of CDI are greatly amplified in t...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02784756
Aug 2nd, 2022 - Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease is an important cause of morbidity in solid organ transplantation recipients and remains the most common opportunistic viral infection in these patients. Standard CMV prevention strategies include universal prophylaxi...
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00679042
Jul 27th, 2022 - This study is a Phase 3 single center, uncontrolled trial in which 1-3 allogeneic pancreatic islet transplants are performed for each study subject. Follow-up evaluations after transplant continue for 52 weeks after the final islet transplantation...
News 243 results
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/978615
Aug 4th, 2022 - A quiet academic debate over a physician's right to refuse specific healthcare services on the basis of moral or ethical objections or religious beliefs is spilling over into the HIV arena in some states, pitting some patients requesting preventiv...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/978526
Aug 4th, 2022 - (Reuters) - Researchers have found that decay of tissues after death can be halted and cell functions restored based on early experiments in pigs that may eventually help increase the number of transplantable human organs. Sixty minutes after stop...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/973515
May 5th, 2022 - A new initiative aimed at increasing the number of Black Americans registered as organ donors and combating disparities among transplant recipients was announced Thursday by a coalition that includes the four medical schools at the nation's histor...
https://www.onclive.com/view/concurrent-durvalumab-chemoradiation-misses-pfs-end-point-in-locally-advanced-cervical-cancer
Apr 20th, 2022 - Durvalumab (Imfinzi) given concurrently with chemoradiation was not found to significantly improve progression-free survival (PFS) vs chemoradiation alone in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer, missing the primary end point of the phas...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/971030
Mar 28th, 2022 - It has become standard operating procedure that when you renew or obtain your driver's license, you're given the chance to sign on as an organ donor. Statistically, just over 50% of drivers sign on that dotted line, helping put a dent in the list ...