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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The antiviral drug, valganciclovir, can lower the levels of Epstein-Barr virus in children with liver transplants, according to a new study. About half of young transplant recipients with detectable levels of the virus in their blood responded to a long course of the therapy, with 60 percent maintaining their response when they stopped taking the drug. These findings are in the August issue of Liver...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The antiviral drug, valganciclovir, can lower the levels of Epstein-Barr virus in children with liver transplants, according to a new study.
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Four months after a Tribune-Review investigation showed patients often undergo liver transplants when they could have lived longer without the surgery, leading transplant surgeons have voted to alter the way livers are allocated.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Ninety-six per cent of children who have received liver transplants from living relations are still alive five years after surgery, according to research published in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery. The findings by the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College Hospital, London, are based on the 50 living related liver transplants (LRLT) carried out on children by the hospital between...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Liver transplants from donors over the age of 60 appear to function just as well in patients as those from younger donors, according to a new study. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied data from 489 adult liver transplants carried out there.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Ninety-six per cent of children who have received liver transplants from living relations are still alive five years after surgery, according to research published in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery. And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent. The research, published in the British Journal of Surgery, covers 50 children operated on between 1993 and 2006...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery. And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent. The research covers 50 children operated on between 1993 and 2006 by King's College Hospital in London.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The state Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the University of Washington Medical Center to remain the region's sole provider of liver transplants. Swedish Medical Center is expected to start performing liver transplants early next year.
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OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A British hospital says no. But a suspicious number of foreign liver transplants have been done at one hospital. Reports the BBC: A London hospital has been referred to health watchdogs after concerns that too many liver transplants are being given to foreign patients. The Healthcare Commission was alerted after 72 non-British EU nationals were given new [...]
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NHS Blog Doctor (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Scott's liver Scott Hull has a rare disease called PSC (very long name that won’t mean much unless you are a doctor). Basically, over time the bile ducts leaving his liver are squeezed closed which causes fluids to back up into the liver and evenutally, cirrhosis (liver damage). This is not caused by drugs, alcohol, or anything else he did. Although the symptoms are treatable eventually it will get...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
A London hospital is referred to healthcare watchdogs over the number of liver transplants carried out on foreign patients.
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icWales (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
A hospital has been referred to health watchdogs amid concerns it is giving too many liver transplants to foreigners.
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Shea Nation (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
On Tuesday, long-time Mets' staffer Jim Plummer passed away from a heart attack after undergoing kidney and liver transplants a few days prior. As regular readers of this blog know, my own father died this past January, after complications from a kidney transplant, and I know how difficult this is for his family, wife Tee and son Jonathan. Although I never met Plummer, someone very close to me worked...
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newsroom | 04/03/2008
BY DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com Cases of hepatitis C, already at epidemic proportions in New York, are expected to jump explosively in the coming decade, increasing the need for liver transplants and fueling a rise in the liver-related death rate, experts said yesterday. Speaking at a daylong conference on hepatitis C convened by the New York State Health Department, doctors painted a dreary...
