ILTS 2012 Report – Casting wide net for donated livers is worthwhile
by Thomas R. Collins – Pursuing liver grafts in an aggressive manner throughout the United States is much more costly than getting them from a local or regional… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Pursuing liver grafts in an aggressive manner throughout the United States is much more costly than getting them from a local or regional… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Doing a biopsy on a liver before the organ is procured for transplantation is helpful only when done for certain potential organ donors,
by Thomas R. Collins – With a scarcity of livers available for transplantation, there is a tremendous pressure on the medical community to make the best use of… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – A living donor liver transplant can be a safe and effective first-line treatment for very young children with biliary atresia,
by Thomas R. Collins – Establishing and adhering to management goals for organ donors boosts the percentage of livers that are utilized,
Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from a Phase III study report no difference in rates of viral clearance between two anemia management strategies for patients with chronic hepatitis… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that patients with genotype 2 or 3 hepatitis C virus (HCV) treated with investigative pegylated interferon lambda-1a (peg-IFN-lambda 1a, Bristol-Myers Squibb) in… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Two studies presented at EASL suggest the real human and economic costs of liver disease across Europe.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that combination ABT-450 with ritonavir (ABT-450/r, Abbott) plus ABT-333 plus ribavirin (RBV) is both well tolerated and led to high sustained virological… read more.
In order to promote the ongoing education in cancer care which is one of the objectives of the association the Cork branch holds an annual education update. In… read more.
For the first time, researchers have successfully injected cultured red blood cells (cRBCs) created from human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) into a human donor, according to study results… read more.
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