FDA Approves Imbruvica for Pediatric Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease
FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for pediatric patients with chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy.
The ap…
Learn MoreScientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryo With Brain, Beating Heart
FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Using only mouse stem cells, British researchers report they have created synthetic embryos that form a brain, a beating heart and other organs.The stem cells organized themselves until they developed beating …
Learn MoreDrop Seen in Transplantation in 2020 With COVID-19 Pandemic
MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a decrease in transplantation in 2020, according to a study published in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Surgery.Alejandro Suarez-Pierre, M.D., from the Un…
Learn MorePatient Preferences for Choices in Kidney Transplant Examined
MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Patients are willing to receive a worse-quality kidney sooner in order to avoid additional waiting time for transplant, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in the Clinical Journal of the American S…
Learn MoreOrgan From Live Donor Best When Child Needs New Kidney
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Children who need kidney transplants have better long-term outcomes when the donor is a living person and not someone who has died and donated organs, a new study finds.”The findings of our study should lay…
Learn MoreUnos científicos restauran cierta función a tejidos de cerdo una hora tras la muerte
MIÉRCOLES, 3 de agosto de 2022 (HealthDay News) — Unos minutos después de que el latido cardiaco para, una masiva serie de eventos desastrosos, provocados por la falta de flujo sanguíneo, comienzan a destruir las células y órganos del cuerpo.Se pensa…
Learn MoreScientists Restore Some Function to Pig Tissues 1 Hour After Death
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Minutes after a heartbeat stops, a massive series of disastrous events triggered by lack of blood flow begins to destroy a body’s cells and organs.This chain of events had been thought to be inevitable and i…
Learn MoreTacrolimus Variability Explored in Peds Kidney Transplant Recipients
THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For pediatric kidney transplant recipients, tacrolimus intrapatient variability is associated with C1q-binding de novo donor-specific antibody formation, according to a study published online July 26 in the …
Learn MorePerioperative Stroke Examined in Children Receiving Heart Transplants
WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Among children receiving a cardiac transplant, Black children have a lower incidence of perioperative stroke, but their long-term mortality rate following stroke is higher compared with White children, acco…
Learn MorePig Hearts Successfully Transplanted Into 2 Brain-Dead Patients
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Genetically altered pig hearts could soon become a viable transplantation alternative for people with life-threatening heart disease, new experiments show.A team at NYU Langone Health has successfully transpl…
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