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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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Scientists have been looking at ways liver disease could be treated using embryonic stem cells, reducing the need for transplantation.
BBC News (Transplant Surgery) - Wed, 7 May 2008
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Complete hematopoietic chimerism and tolerance of a liver allograft from a deceased male donor developed in a 9-year-old girl, with no evidence of graft-versus-host disease 17 months after transplantation.
New England Journal of Medicine (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 25 January 2008
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The study used data from the U.S. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry and from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to identify children with cystic fibrosis who were on the waiting list for lung transplantation during the period from 1992 through 2002.
New England Journal of Medicine (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 22 November 2007
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Mevalonic aciduria is a rare, inborn error of isoprene biosynthesis characterized by severe, periodic attacks of fever and inflammation, developmental delay, ataxia, and dysmorphic features. This autosomal recessive disease is caused by a mutation in the mevalonate kinase gene that severely reduces mevalonate kinase activity.
New England Journal of Medicine (Transplant Surgery) - Tue, 3 July 2007
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Initiatives to dramatically increase the legal supply of organ donation, such as the proposal for the European Union (EU) - wide donor card, are urgently needed to prevent organ trafficking.
The Lancet (Transplant Surgery) - Thu, 14 June 2007
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This week, at the second Global Consultation on Transplantation the World Health Organization (WHO) presented countries and other stakeholders with a blueprint for updated global guiding principles on cell, tissue and organ donation and transplantation.
World Health Organization (Transplant Surgery) - Wed, 4 April 2007
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Il primo trapianto effettuato in Italia, la nascita delle organizzazioni, la normativa, gli incidenti, l'attività di ricerca, la sicurezza, la situazione attuale nel nostro Paese e le attività internazionali, l'orientamento della rete trapiantologica per il futuro.
Ministero della Salute (Transplant Surgery) - Fri, 30 March 2007
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Transplanting human intervertebral discs could be the future for treating spinal-disc degeneration.
The Lancet (Transplant Surgery) - Tue, 27 March 2007
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The model may predict the length of posttransplant survival when a given donor is offered and may be particularly helpful for marginal or high-risk donors.
Medscape (Transplant Surgery) - Mon, 6 November 2006
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