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Children At Risk For Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Helped By Antiviral Therapy (Medical News Today)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT

The antiviral drug, valganciclovir, can lower the levels of Epstein-Barr virus in children with liver transplants, according to a new study. About half of young transplant recipients with detectable levels of the virus in their blood responded to a long course of the therapy, with 60 percent maintaining their response when they stopped taking the drug. These findings are...

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Antiviral Therapy Helps Children At Risk For Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease (Science Daily)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The antiviral drug, valganciclovir, can lower the levels of Epstein-Barr virus in children with liver transplants, according to a new study.

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Doctors' panel favors sickest be chosen first (Today's Tribune-Review)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:23:20 GMT

Four months after a Tribune-Review investigation showed patients often undergo liver transplants when they could have lived longer without the surgery, leading transplant surgeons have voted to alter the way livers are allocated.

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Meet the Liver Transplant 'Dream Team' (ABC News)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:40:57 GMT

A surgical team in South Korea performed 320 liver transplants last year.

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Higher Than Average Success Rate For Children Receiving Living Donor Living Transplants (Medical News Today)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Ninety-six per cent of children who have received liver transplants from living relations are still alive five years after surgery, according to research published in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery. The findings by the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College Hospital, London, are based on the 50 living related liver transplants...

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Liver Transplants From Older Donors Just As Reliable (Red Orbit )

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:00 GMT

Liver transplants from donors over the age of 60 appear to function just as well in patients as those from younger donors, according to a new study. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis studied data from 489 adult liver transplants carried out there.

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Liver Unit Reports Higher Than Average Success Rate For Children Receiving Living Donor Transplants (Medical News Today)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

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Liver unit reports higher than average success rate for children receiving living donor transplants (Eurekalert)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery. And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent. The research, published in the British Journal of Surgery, covers 50 children operated on between...

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Liver Unit Reports High Success Rate For Children Receiving Living Donor Transplants (Science Daily)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery. And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent. The research covers 50 children operated on between 1993 and 2006 by King's College Hospital...

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Swedish to do liver transplants (Seattle Times)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:41:29 GMT

The state Supreme Court has denied an appeal by the University of Washington Medical Center to remain the region's sole provider of liver transplants. Swedish Medical Center is expected to start performing liver transplants early next year.

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Is Britain Selling Health Care to Foreigners? (OpenMarket)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:18:03 GMT

A British hospital says no. But a suspicious number of foreign liver transplants have been done at one hospital. Reports the BBC: A London hospital has been referred to health watchdogs after concerns that too many liver transplants are being given to foreign patients. The Healthcare Commission was alerted after 72 non-British EU nationals were given new [...]...

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Liver transplants and Cadbury's Dairy Milk (NHS Blog Doctor)

noreply@blogger.com (Dr John Crippen) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:50:00 GMT

Scott's liver Scott Hull has a rare disease called PSC (very long name that won’t mean much unless you are a doctor). Basically, over time the bile ducts leaving his liver are squeezed closed which causes fluids to back up into the liver and evenutally, cirrhosis (liver damage). This is not caused by drugs, alcohol, or anything else he did. Although the symptoms are treatable...

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Concerns over foreign transplants (BBC News)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:58:50 GMT

A London hospital is referred to healthcare watchdogs over the number of liver transplants carried out on foreign patients.

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Hospital faces probe on transplants (icWales)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:17 GMT

A hospital has been referred to health watchdogs amid concerns it is giving too many liver transplants to foreigners.

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Mets' Mourn the Passing of a Truly Good Man (Shea Nation)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:28:00 GMT

On Tuesday, long-time Mets' staffer Jim Plummer passed away from a heart attack after undergoing kidney and liver transplants a few days prior. As regular readers of this blog know, my own father died this past January, after complications from a kidney transplant, and I know how difficult this is for his family, wife Tee and son Jonathan. Although I never met Plummer, someone...

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More liver cancer patients getting transplants (Reuters)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:36:31 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In early 2002, a new donor organ allocation system gave priority for liver transplants to people with early liver cancer. It led to a six-fold increase in the proportion of liver transplant recipients with liver cancer, research shows.

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Should criminals have equal access to scarce treatment? (Slate Magazine)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:52:54 GMT

According to a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times, four members of the yakuza, the Japanese mafia, received liver transplants at the UCLA medical center between 2000 and 2004. Two of the four men later gave a $100,000 contribution to the medical center, prompting speculation that a cash promise got them bumped to the head of the transplant waiting list. The story suggested...

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Should criminals have equal access to scarce treatment? (OTB News)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:45:13 GMT

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UCLA's yakuza liver transplants (Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Roy Poses : "The case of the Yakuza liver transplants raises some real questions about whether the process of allocating transplants miscarried in these specific circumstances."

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Strawmen, Red Herrings, and Liver Transplants for Yakuza (Health Care Renewal)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:44:00 GMT

We recently posted about the strange case of four Japanese men, allegedly affiliated with Yakuza criminal organizations, who received liver transplants from the UCLA Medical Center, apparently with some alacrity. All likely paid full list prices for their procedures, and two later donated $100,000 each to the medical center. The case raised concerns by several notables (including Senator...

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