Sentences with phrase «as organ transplantation»

This is of limited use in chronic conditions such as organ transplantation or HIV where the emphasis is on managing the condition to minimise immunodeficiency.

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It is worth noting that as recently as 1988 the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs had concluded that it was not permissible to remove organs for transplantation from anencephalic infants while they were still alive, even though it is harder to maintain organs in suitable condition if one waits until the infant has sustained whole brain death.

And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.

He is an at - large member of the United Network for Organ Sharing / Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Ethics Committee, serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation.

Generally speaking, the American public is well accustomed to the concept of tissue and organ transplantation, as stories of life - saving heart and kidney transplants, or American Red Cross blood drives collecting blood and platelets for transfusions have become commonplace.

Because the practice of transfusion and of organ transplantation are heavily regulated by medicine (and for good reason), a culture that considers human milk to be another regulated bodily substance can only conceive of milk sharing as an activity that occurs rarely and under medical supervision.

... Scientists attempting to create organs suitable for human transplantation must have the skills to build as well as biologically characterize their inventions along with facilities suitable for this type of interdisciplinary work.

It concluded in January that this form of treatment posed no new ethical issues beyond those of, say, organ transplantation, but that it should still be treated as research.

The most commonly used technique is orthotopic transplantation, in which the native liver is removed and the donor organ is placed in the same anatomic location as the original liver.

Just as elephant seals restrict blood flow to their nonessential tissues during deep dives, blood flow is interrupted in humans during organ transplantation, stroke, heart attack and other injuries.

That question remains open, as direct transplantation of major organs across species boundaries still hasn't been made to work.

Reactivation of HBV may occur with chemotherapy, organ and tissue transplantation, High dose corticosteroids, and biologicals targeting tumor necrosis factor - alpha (TNF - α), Anti-TNF medications are used in treating rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, digestive conditions that include Crohn's and colitis, and dermatologic conditions, such as psoriasis.

The researchers examined data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) / United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to Organ Sharing (UNOS), the nation's organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ transplant network, on all reported «eligible deaths,» — defined as potential brain - dead organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to organ donors age 70 years or less without any medical conditions precluding donation — from 2008 to 2013.

We can foresee cloned herds as living factories: Cows and pigs will churn out valuable human proteins in their milk or blood, and tissues and organs for transplantation.

The application is on hold, the agency has told him, as NIH reconsiders its rules for the kind of experiments he wants to do: mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop, a strategy that could produce tissues or organs for transplantation.

To help provide accurate estimates of long - term risks, a team led by Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, studied information on 133,824 living kidney donors from 1987 to 2015, as reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

«Furthermore, this strategy may be beneficial for other pathological settings in which elevated numbers of regulatory T cells are desirable, such as autoimmune diseases and solid organ transplantation,» Beilhack says.

As a result, Hausenloy said the results suggest the procedure may still be beneficial in other medical settings of acute ischemia / reperfusion injury, such as when treating heart attack patients or in organ transplantatioAs a result, Hausenloy said the results suggest the procedure may still be beneficial in other medical settings of acute ischemia / reperfusion injury, such as when treating heart attack patients or in organ transplantatioas when treating heart attack patients or in organ transplantation.

Current projects are investigating: 1) the expression of inflammatory genes during ischemia and reperfusion of kidneys during urology transplantation and in mouse models; 2) the expression of inflammatory genes and proteins in urine as markers indicating the presence of rejection in renal allografts; and 3) the role of adhesion molecules and chemokines in directing leukocyte infiltration into organ allografts.

As a result, they are currently being investigated as a cellular therapeutic for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and long - term patient and graft survival following solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantatioAs a result, they are currently being investigated as a cellular therapeutic for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and long - term patient and graft survival following solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantatioas a cellular therapeutic for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and long - term patient and graft survival following solid organ transplantation, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Because other cells under complement attack, such as during solid organ transplantation, also accumulate C3 - populated cells, the interaction with CR3 may have important implications beyond PNH.

Hyperimmunes are used to treat acute infections or prevent infection in immune compromised patients, such as after organ transplantation.

Pluripotent stem cells, from a slightly later stage, can give rise to any specific tissue, but they fail to support more fundamental development such as growing organs for transplantation or building new mouse models.

As of January 2011, more than 16,000 Americans are on the waiting list to receive a suitable liver according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

He made a series of fundamental discoveries that had a significant impact on the basic understanding of the immune system as well as on many clinical specialties, including cancer immunology, organ transplantation, and cardiovascular disease.

In 1994, Schreiber and co-workers discovered that the proteins FKBP12 and mTOR are the simultaneous targets of the small molecule rapamycin, now approved for use as an immunosuppressant drug given to patients after organ transplantations to help prevent rejection.

We performed histological examination of GVHD target organs (liver, lung, small intestine, and colon) and the tongue, which served as a surrogate for skin damage (37), 4 wk after transplantation.

Dr. Bluestone has spent over 35 years working as an immunologist interested in immune tolerance as it relates to autoimmunity and organ transplantation.

And so, you know, we're very interested, as you think about organ transplantation, there's a deficit of donors, and we really rely heavily on patients and trying to get those organs so that we can transplant them into the patients who need them.

He also wants to expand the use of new technology such as normothermic perfusion that can rejuvenate donor organs by circulating warm, oxygenated solution through them prior to transplantation, improving their viability and greatly increasing the number of available donor organs.

He is a member of several scientific and surgical societies, including the Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation for the Department of Health and Human Services and has served as president of the International Liver Transplant Society.

Ex-vivo organ perfusion (EVOP), pioneered at Cleveland Clinic, is rapidly emerging as a potential superior preservation technology over cold storage in clinical transplantation.

As inaugural director of the Transplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty from multiple academic departments to grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid organ tTransplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty from multiple academic departments to grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid organ transplantationtransplantation.

As with other types of transplantation, the challenge with islet transplantation is to avoid rejection of the donated organ and to balance that goal against side effects from the drugs needed to control the immune system.

Laboratory swine provide a model for the study of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and organ transplantation, and porcine skin is so similar to our own that it can be used as a temporary patch for burn patients.

Also, commenters recommended that the definition include other activities associated with the transplantation of organs, such as processing, screening, and distribution.

That said — if prisoners, albeit ones condemned to death, do give their consent informed and freely to the use of their organs for transplantation after death, or indeed an impoverished Indian peasant, who is unable to support his wife and large family, consents to the donation for cash of eg a kidney, and this money will guarantee the family's life and future — can such autonomous action be regarded as unethical and should it be outlawed?

To qualify under Major Organ Transplant, the Insured Person must undergo a transplantation procedure as the recipient of a heart, lung, liver, kidney or bone marrow, and limited to these entities.

In addition to that, coverage for incurred expenses, such as fees and charges for consultants, specialists, anaesthetists, oxygen, blood, operation theatre charges, pre-hospitalization expenses and post-hospitalization expenses, and donor expenses for organ (s) transplantation are covered under the wide umbrella of this policy.