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National Eye Donor Month: Donor family perspective
Rep. Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss., recently declared March to be the 2013 National Eye Donor Month to President Barack Obama. Nunnelee had suffered from the blinding disease keratoconus and was the recipient of two cornea donations that restored his vision. "I live every day...
Patients who underwent liver transplantation to treat lethal genetic syndromes experienced high rates of survival, while factors such as age and preoperative life support increased mortality risk, in a recent study....
The incidence of morbidity and mortality after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is not well understood because reporting is not standardized and relies on single-center reports. Aborted hepatectomies...
Maintenance of T-cell function and modulation of tolerance are critical issues in organ transplantation. The thymus is the primary organ for T-cell generation, and a preserved thymic function is essential for a self-tolerant diverse T-cell repertoire. Transplant procedures...
Antifungal prophylaxis is recommended in high-risk patients, but risk criteria remain unclear and the predictive value of model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score is unknown. In a retrospective, single-center analysis...
Liver transplantation is associated with improvement in fatigue in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). However, a substantial proportion of patients continue to suffer from significant fatigue after two years....
A team is hammering out consensus criteria across Canada for assessment and acceptance of donors involved in the Living Donor Paired Exchange (LDPE) registry run by Canadian Blood Services. An important objective of these criteria is to streamline donor assessment so that...
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