by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by José Ramón Nuñez, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. A nation-wide protocol for retrieving organs after cardiac death outside the… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Peter Friend, University of Oxford. Pancreas transplantation for the treatment of diabetes can be said to be unique amongst transplantations… read more.
by Maria Dalby – Introduction – Recent advances in transplant medicine and surgery mean more lives can be saved or prolonged with an organ transplantation, but also that… read more.
It is estimated that there are 2.9 million people in the UK diagnosed with diabetes1 and the incidence is increasing, as it is across the world, all the… read more.
Researchers from Luton, Bedfordshire presented data on the views of organ donation from different congregations across the UK.
Altruistic donation has contributed to the increase in living donor transplantation worldwide. However, the donor’s wishes are sometimes antagonistic to the medical team’s views.
Nephrotoxicity as the Primary Driver of Failure – Fact or Fiction? – Dr Philip Halloran, Alberta Applied Genomics Center, Alberta, Canada. The calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs), ciclosporin and tacrolimus,… read more.
by Mr Nizam Mamode, Consultant Transplant Surgeon (pictured) – Children are not just small adults; an aphorism which paediatricians are fond of quoting, but one which perhaps has… read more.
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