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Doctors in Spain say they have carried out the world's first full face transplant on a man who severely damaged his face in an accident.
CNN.com (Transplant Surgery) - Mon, 26 April 2010
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“Transplants can transform the quality of people's lives, but are currently limited by the availability of organs” proclaims a report published last week by the UK Government about the first year of the country's Organ Donation Taskforce implementation programme. Over 16 million people have demonstrated their agreement by signing the NHS Organ Donor Register. But nearly 10 000 people in the UK are still waiting for a life-saving organ transplant—a queue that is lengthening by about 8% a year—and 1000 people die every year waiting for organs. The increasing incidence of kidney failure, particularly in people aged over 50 years and ethnic minorities, is a key underlying factor.
The Lancet (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 30 October 2009
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Discarded fallopian tubes from hysterectomies could be a good source of donor stem cells, say researchers.
BBC News (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 19 June 2009
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Earlier this week, the case of Hiroki Ando, the Japanese 11-year-old boy who was denied a heart transplant in Japan, highlighted the vast cultural divide in attitudes towards organ transplant and availability worldwide.
CNN.com (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 19 June 2009
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The FDA has approved an expanded indication for tacrolimus (Prograf), recommending its use with MMF for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in allogenic kidney transplantation.
Medscape (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 5 June 2009
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Using a congenic mouse model, Liuba and colleagues show that lymphoid-primed multipotent progenitors are superior to hematopoietic stem cells in providing rapid lymphoid reconstitution following intrauterine transplantation, with sustained polyclonal B-cell production.
Blood (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 8 May 2009
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Surgeons give details of the first almost-total face transplant performed in a 22-hour operation in Cleveland, Ohio.
BBC News (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 18 December 2008
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The loss of a normal airway is devastating. Attempts to replace large airways have met with serious problems. Prerequisites for a tissue-engineered replacement are a suitable matrix, cells, ideal mechanical properties, and the absence of antigenicity.
The Lancet (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 18 December 2008
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A proof-of-concept study showed that a noninvasive test that analyzes proteins in the urine can correctly identify chronic allograft dysfunction.
Medscape (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 27 November 2008
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The chance of long-term survival after a heart transplant rises if the person getting the new heart is the same sex as the donor, researchers say.
BBC News (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 13 November 2008
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