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Organ recipients compete, raise awareness in transplant games
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For Francine Lacharite and Yves Gagnon, their lives began anew when they received heart transplants. The two Quebec residents, who met in Windsor this ...
Hundreds of athletes gather in Windsor, Ont., for Transplant Games The Canadian Press
Athletes focus on Windsor for Transplant Games MLive.com
Hundreds of athletes gather in Windsor for Transplant Games Sudbury Star
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Los Gatos area Cub Scouts dig in to transplant oak saplings
San Jose Mercury News,  USA -
They transplanted 40 saplings from 1-gallon to 5-gallon containers. "I like pouring the dirt in," said 8-year-old Steven Jasper. "I like the whole project," ...
World?s First Double Arm Transplant
Environmental Graffiti, UK -
A farmer who lost both arms in an accident six years ago has undergone a double arm transplant in Germany. Five teams of surgeons took 15 hours to attach ...
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Pictures of 'world-first' double arm transplant Telegraph.co.uk
Doctors hail farmer's double arm transplant Times Online
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Squad set for transplant games
Irish Times, Ireland -
EIGHT YOUNG athletes who have undergone transplant operations will provide hope and inspiration to those on donor waiting lists when they compete at an ...
Organ "Transplant Chain" Matches Living Donors with Patients
89.3 KPCC, CA -
KPCC's Brooke Binkowski has details on one of the West Coast's first "transplant chains." Inocenta Platt: I have to sit, my legs are killing me. ...
'Kidney Chains' connect donors, patients abc7.com
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First NY?to?LA Living-Donor Transplant Chain Results in Three ...
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Newswise ? The lives of three Los Angeles?area kidney transplant patients were transformed by one of the West Coast's first three-way living donor kidney ...
Thanks to Careful Post-Transplant Case Management, Liver Recipient ...
Newswise (press release) -
Newswise ? Julieanne Carter of Lynchburg, VA has a special place in her heart for the University of Virginia Health System and its Transplant Services team. ...
World's First Transplant Of Both Arms
Science Daily (press release) -
4, 2008) ? From the 25th to the 26th July, the ?Klinikum rechts der Isar? of the Technical University of Munich saw the first transplant of complete arms ...
Big Turnout For Little Boy Needing Bone Marrow Transplant
KLAS-TV, NV -
"We recently lost a young man from our congregation who was in line for a bone marrow transplant who was battling cancer and so Candle lighters contacted us ...
Organ transplants, potential donors rise
Jerusalem Post, Israel -
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH The number of organs donated for transplant has increased 62 percent during the first seven months of this year compared to the ...
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Parathyroid function in long-term renal transplant patients: importance of pre-transplant PTH … -
A Torres - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 1998 - ERA-EDTA
... (r=0.43; P=0.001) and pre-transplant PTH (r=0.31; P=0.02) significantly correlated
with post-transplant only rarely [13,14]. Lobo et al. [13] observed that 55% ...

Influence of panel-reactive antibodies on posttransplant outcomes in lung transplant recipients -
CL Lau, SM Palmer, KE Posther, DN Howell, NL … - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000 - Soc Thorac Surgeons
... 1 year, and 58% (high PRA) versus 73% (low PRA) at 2 years (Fig 1); p 0.31 by log
rank test. Kaplan-Meier analysis of all 200 lung transplant patients showed 1 ...

Blood protein binding of cyclosporine in transplant patients -
I Zaghloul, RJ Ptachcinski, GJ Burckart, D Van … - The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1987 - jcp.sagepub.com
... Mean ? SD 1.05 ? 0.17* 13.47 ? 3.46* 0.09 ? 0.05* 0.33 ? 0.07* 0.084 ? 0.036 Liver
Transplant 1 1.59 29.15 0.10 0.31 0.063 2 1.36 29.60 0.08 0.24 0.059 ...

OXIDATIVE STRESS AND LIPID ABNORMALITIES IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH OR WITHOUT CHRONIC … -
JP Cristol, C Vela, MF Maggi, B Descomps, G Mourad - Transplantation, 1998 - transplantjournal.com
... unchanged (Table 3). Impairment of the antioxidative defenses was observed in
transplant patients as RBC Vit E and SOD decreased from 1.08?0.31 to 0.72?0.40 ...

Toxoplasma gondii infection in marrow transplant recipients: a 20 year experience. -
MA Slavin, JD Meyers, JS Remington, RC Hackman - Bone Marrow Transplant, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Occurrence of toxoplasmosis was 0.31 cases per 100 allogeneic transplants and 1.0
per 100 autopsies. An estimated 15% of allogeneic transplant recipients were ...

The relative influence of delayed graft function and acute rejection on renal transplant survival -
ML Nicholson, TJ Wheatley, T Horsburgh, CM Edwards … - Transplant International, 1996 - Springer
... in those with initial graft function (46 %; Z 2 = 1.02, P -- 0.31; Table 2 ... and DGF
exerted a significant and independent effect on re- nal transplant survival. ...

… GANCICLOVIR FOR THE PROPHYLAXIS AND TREATMENT OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT -
JA Fishman, MT Doran, SA Volpicelli, AB Cosimi, JG … - Transplantation, 2000 - transplantjournal.com
... Only two patients in the prophylaxis group achieved trough levels below the target
range (<0.31 ?g/ml), both of whom were liver transplant recipients who ...

PREDICTORS OF RENAL TRANSPLANT HISTOLOGY AT THREE MONTHS. -
DRJ Kuypers, JR Chapman, PJ O'Connell, RDM Allen, … - Transplantation, 1999 - transplantjournal.com
... Table 1. Pretransplantation demographic characteristics of transplant recipients
(n=112 ... P<0.01), and the number of previously failed transplants (r=0.31, P<0.001 ...

Blood glutathione as a marker of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients -
BD Chiara, R Bigi, J Campolo, M Parolini, F … - Clinical Transplantation, 2005 - Blackwell Synergy
... Pre-transplant cardiac diagnosis was idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy in 22 (40%),
ischaemic ... OR 3.97, 95% CI: 1.15?14, p = 0.03) and GSH bl (OR 0.31, 95% CI ...

… adult height: a report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS) -
RN Fine, M Ho, A Tejani - Pediatric Nephrology, 2001 - Springer
... 1.63) Transplant age (years) 6?8 24 112.85 (1.64) 26 159.17 (0.28) 47.45
(1.69) 9 37 118.06 (1.63) 34 151.41 (0.31) 34.86 (1.99) ...

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Death risk higher in obese kidney transplant cases

Last Updated: 2006-11-17 13:22:22 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obese individuals who undergo kidney transplantation are more likely to die and have a poor outcome than their nonobese counterparts, Dutch researchers report.

"Past studies looking at the effect of obesity on transplantation outcomes have yielded conflicting results," senior author Dr. Andries Hoitsma, from the University Medical Center St. Radboud in Nijmegen, told Reuters Health. "The strength of our study is the large sample size."

The study, reported in the November issue of Transplant International, included 196 obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30 and 1871 nonobese patients. Obese patients were more likely to be female and were typically older than nonobese patients.

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Patient survival and graft survival were significantly lower in the obese group, both at 1 and 5 years, the report indicates. At 5 years, the survival rate of obese patients was 81 percent, versus 89 percent for nonobese patients. The graft survival rate was 71 percent in obese patients versus 80 percent in nonobese patients. These differences are significant.

Hoitsma said that surgeons in The Netherlands will usually not perform kidney transplantation on patients with a BMI of 30 or higher, unless certain conditions are met and then the limit is 35.

"Obese patients seeking transplantation are typically instructed to lose weight first," Hoitsma said.

Research has shown that obese patients who undergo transplantation are better off than if they had remained on dialysis, he noted. However, "with limited grafts available, it is more efficient if the transplants go to patients who are likely to derive the most benefit from them," namely the nonobese.

SOURCE: Transplant International, November 2006.

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Heart valve grown from amniotic stem cells

Last Updated: 2006-11-17 13:41:53 -0400 (Reuters Health)

CHICAGO (Reuters Health) - Stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid can be induced to grow on a polymer scaffold into a fully functional human heart valve that will open and close like a native valve, Swiss researchers report. The process may eventually find application in infants with damaged heart valves.

At the American Heart Association's 2006 Scientific Sessions, Dr. Simon P. Hoerstrup of University Hospital of Zurich described his group's findings from experiments with amniotic fluid-derived stem cells seeded onto leaflet-shaped biodegradable scaffolds.

The engineered valves were then grown, and conditioned with a pulsatile flow to mimic the forces imposed by the circulation of blood through the heart.

The valves show little regurgitation on testing, Hoerstrup said. "There is a very nice opening and closing of the valve."

"A substantial group of newborns have bad heart valves, and about one-third of those need surgery," he said. "With the relatively safe method of amniocentesis, we can extract stem cells...They can be prenatally fabricated such that they are ready (for implantation) at the time of the infant's birth," Hoerstrup said.

Because the cells come from the infant, they will not be rejected, and in theory they will grow with the child.

Now that proof of the concept has been established, the researcher concluded, preliminary studies in animals and humans can be planned.

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