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ITS 2012 Report – Marked increase in national organ donation rates in Israel

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – New legislation which recognises and defines the concept of brain death has allowed Israel to nearly double the number of transplantations of organs from… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Difficult donor issues in the time of donor shortages

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Introduction – In many ways waiting lists to receive an organ transplantation look very much the same today as they did a decade ago… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Translational approaches to tolerance induction

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Patients receiving kidney transplants from human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched donors can be induced to develop tolerance to the graft and thereby avoid lifelong immunosuppressive… read more.

Pharmacological preconditioning for transplantation – Lost in translation?

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Professor Stephen J Wigmore – Ischaemia reperfusion injury is an inevitable consequence of the process of clinical transplantation. Organ injury and delayed function are common events after… read more.

ATC 2012 Report – Everolimus gives results similar to MMF, study says

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – Using everolimus for immunosuppression in heart transplant recipients, along with a reduced amount of cyclosporine, produces results comparable to mycophenolate mofetil,

ATC 2012 Report – New highly specific antibody shows good safety results

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins –  TOL101, a new murine monoclonal antibody that targets the alpha-beta T-cell receptor, showed a good safety profile despite a problem with hives that… read more.

ATC 2012 Report – High insulin use pre-SPK brings risk to pancreas and kidney

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – Using a high dose of insulin is associated with a high risk of pancreas loss after a simultaneous pancreas kidney transplant, researchers said… read more.

ATC 2012 Report – Hypertension among kidney transplant recipients still a big challenge

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – The blood pressure of the kidney transplant recipient at the University of Glasgow kept climbing. But it wasn’t without effort from physicians.

ATC 2012 Report – Functional status could be useful tool in organ allocation

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – The functional status of transplant recipients is a factor that is often overlooked as kidneys are allocated,

ATC 2012 Report – Researchers shed light on the ways of the BK virus

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – The BK virus, and damage to the kidney that is caused by it, poses a continuing challenge to kidney transplant specialists.

ATC Report 2012 – New assay is a breakthrough in cross-matching

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – A method for cross-matching organ donors and recipients — using beads and human complement — is producing more reliable results, making for transplantation of hearts… read more.

ATC 2012 Report – Large donor-outcome studies are valuable but a major logistical challenge

Written by | 21 Aug 2012

by Thomas R. Collins – Tracking living kidney donor outcomes in a comprehensive way is fraught with difficulties and complications,

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