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Draft Guidance Calls for More Thorough Infection Prevention Relating to Organ Transplantation

Draft guidelines on organ transplants call for more thorough donor screening and more advanced organ testing to help protect patients from infections transmitted through transplants. The draft from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concerns infections ...More
September 22, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
HPV Infection Highly Prevalent Among Organ Transplant Recipients

A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals an association between the human papillomavirus (betaPV) infection and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in organ transplant recipients. HPV is known to cause cervical cancer and SCC in the ...More
July 12, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Attention Turns to More Rapid Testing to Prevent the Donation of Infected Organs

A kidney recipient in a New York City hospital recently contracted HIV from the transplanted organ, which came from a living donor, according to the New York State Department of Health. Although an initial screening had been performed on the donor, he or she apparently had ...More
March 28, 2011
Posted in News
First Liver Transplant Patients Receive Experimental Drug to Prevent Hepatitis C Infection

Following a successful Phase 1 study for safety, researchers at MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) today announced the beginning of a Phase 2 clinical trial testing the ability of a human monoclonal antibody they developed to prevent ...More
January 18, 2011
Posted in News
Transplant Surgeons Fear Using Organs from 'High-Risk' Donors Despite Safety Record

As a response to a 2007 episode in which four patients in Chicago were transplanted with organs from a single donor unknowingly infected with HIV — the only such episode in 20 years — one-third of transplant surgeons in the United States "overreacted" and began routinely ...More
January 18, 2011
Posted in News
Transplant Tourism Poses Infection Problems, Ethical Dilemma for U.S. Doctors

A recent case study by doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York examined the ethical issues posed by transplant tourism, an offshoot of medical tourism, which focuses solely on transplantation surgery. Many American transplant professionals frown on the practice of ...More
January 26, 2010
Posted in News
Transplant Infectious Disease Experts Provide Pandemic Guidance

Surgeons and other healthcare professionals specializing in solid organ transplants have been issued with expert advice to guide them through the complex clinical issues posed by the global H1N1 influenza pandemic. The paper, published online by the American Journal of ...More
December 3, 2009
Posted in News
Survival Rates for HIV Patients Following Liver Transplant

HIV positive and HIV negative patients have comparable survival rates following liver transplant, according to new research presented today at EASL 2009, the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Liver in Copenhagen, Denmark.The study results showed no ...More
April 24, 2009
Posted in News