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Medical News Today Six-Organ Transplant Girl Goes Home Today  - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 After 100 days in hospital and undergoing a complicated 6-organ transplant, 9-year-old Alannah Sheve...... Source Of Damage To Donor Organs Identified  - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 For patients with incurable pulmonary conditions, a lung transplantation is the only available treat...... Post-Liver Transplantation Survival Outcomes - Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Helps Predict  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 According to a study in the February edition of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-...... Geography Over Need Is Putting Sicker Patients Needing Lung Transplant At Higher Risk Of Dying  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 The current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrea...... Post-Liver Transplantation Survival May Be Predicted By Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing  - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 Researchers from the U.K. determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a ...... Improved Kidney Transplant Survival In Mice; New Agent Likely To Speed Replacement Of Other Organs  - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 New research published online in the FASEB Journal details a new antibody, called "OPN-305" that may...... Researchers Discover Dual Role Of Key Player In Immune System  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have identified a new and unusual ro...... In Development - System To Deliver Organ Transplant Drug Without Harmful Side Effects  - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmf...... Increased Risk For Transplant Patients Who Develop Head & Neck Cancer  - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 Transplant patients who develop head and neck cancer are more likely to be non-smokers and non-drink...... Stopping Immunosuppressive Prednisone Soon After Transplantation Found To Be Safe  - Sat, 28 Jan 2012 Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help...... Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe  - Fri, 27 Jan 2012 According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live tra...... Blood-Forming Stem Cells' Growth Identified  - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 Scientists with the new Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identif...... Identification Of Entry Point For Hepatitis C Infection  - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 A molecule embedded in the membrane of human liver cells that aids in cholesterol absorption also al...... Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation As A Bridge To Lung Transplantation  - Tue, 24 Jan 2012 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support in awake, non-intubated patients may be an effect...... Researchers Identify Modifiable Risk Factors That Could Limit The Incidence Of Post-Transplant End-Stage Renal Disease  - Thu, 19 Jan 2012 Research from the University of Michigan Health System shows the risk for kidney failure among liver...... MedPage Today Study Finds Low Risk for LVAD Exchange (CME/CE)  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- Clinicians can be "aggressive" when deciding whether to replace a ...... Stents, Surgery Both Maintain Open Carotids (CME/CE)  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- For patients with carotid stenosis, both stenting and endarterectomy ...... Anesthesia in Toddlers Linked to ADHD (CME/CE, with video)  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Children exposed to general anesthesia multiple times during the first two years ...... Most Common Tx for Prostate Ca Not Best Value  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- External beam radiation is the most toxic and expensive among commo...... Clot Busters OK for 'Wake-Up' Strokes (CME/CE, with video)  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Patients who wake up with stroke symptoms that weren't present when t...... PCI Upgraded in 'Appropriate Use' Updates (CME/CE)  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Percutaneous coronary intervention is now considered appropriate in relatively be...... Medicare Pay Policy on Transplant Drugs Slammed  - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Medicare's failure to provide lifelong coverage for immunosuppressive therapy aft...... Less Invasive Tx Preferred for Dupuytren's (CME/CE)  - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Patients with a connective tissue disorder that disables the hands preferred a mi...... CABG Outlasts Stenting for Survival (CME/CE)  - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- Coronary artery bypass grafing was associated with better longer-t...... Patient Priorities Differ from Research Agenda (CME/CE)  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- Clinical trial researchers tend to give equal weight to the compon...... GERD Drugs Raise Hip Fracture Risk (CME/CE)  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Postmenopausal women who use proton pump inhibitors regularly are at increased ri...... Lumpectomy Often Not End of Story (CME/CE, with video)  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Almost a quarter of breast cancer lumpectomies are followed by revision surgery, ...... Direct Aortic Access for TAVI Shows Promise (CME/CE)  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 FT. LAUDERDALE (MedPage Today) -- A minimally invasive surgical approach to transcatheter aortic val...... Focused Radiation May Ease Facial Pain (CME/CE)  - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 (MedPage Today) -- Cyberknife radiosurgery may bring at least short-term relief to patients with ref...... Epidural Plus Fever During Labor Put Baby at Risk (CME/CE)  - Mon, 30 Jan 2012 (MedPage Today) -- A temperature spike during labor with epidural analgesia may indicate serious ris......