Sentences with phrase «from deceased patients»

Grima also observed this same clumping of Huntingtin protein with RanGAP1 and nuclear pore proteins to the wrong place in the cell in brain tissue and cultured brain cells derived from deceased patients with Huntington's disease.

To assess possible inherited mutations, the team also sequenced samples from the deceased patients» parents in nine of the cases.

A team led by geneticist Steven McCarroll of the Broad Institute, based in Cambridge, Mass., combed through genetic information from about 29,000 schizophrenia cases, 36,000 controls and 700 brain samples from deceased patients.

A slide shows three images of the same section of brain from a deceased patient who had Alzheimer's disease.

The researchers, led by Richard Proia, compared the affected organoids with tissue from a deceased patient and with organoids with the disease mutation corrected by genome editing.

Not exact matches

Beta cells donated from deceased individuals have already been transplanted into diabetic patients through a procedure called the Edmonton protocol.

From 2006 to 2013, all seven patients with acute liver failure who underwent a LDLT were compared with all 26 patients who underwent a deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT).

«Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors.»

And in another Penn project, researchers are studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased diabetic donors, rather than remaining on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.

To understand why these kidneys are not being used, with the goal of improving kidney utilization, reducing wait times, and providing transplants to more patients, a team led by Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH and S. Ali Husain, MD, MPH (Columbia University Medical Center) analyzed information on deceased donors from whom both kidneys were procured but only one was transplanted from 2000 - 2015.

In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by Carlo Condello presented their results from a study of the sliced brain fragments of deceased Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

Several clinical trials, including this one led by Emoryâ $ ™ s Nicole Turgeon, have shown that islets isolated from deceased human donors can restore normal blood sugar regulation in patients with type 1 diabetes.

In the case of the eight patients in the study, Collinge said that it's likely they acquired a-beta amyloid seeds from the hormone harvested from the deceased elderly who donated their organs for that purpose.

He recalls that the room went «icy cold» as his patient Catherine strangely began to channel messages from Dr Weiss's own deceased family members; things she could not have possibly known.

• Ability to properly handle and restrain patients with respiratory or cardiac compromise • Properly prep and scrub patients for sterile diagnostic procedures • Monitor patient parameters and notify doctor of potential concerns • Take proactive role in life - saving techniques including CPR, as necessary • Properly record patient vitals and trends on anesthesia flow sheet • Perform patient blood work including hematology • Proper handling of diagnostic specimens during procedure and facilitating the proper care and transfer to laboratory including accurate request forms and documentation • Ensure that proper procedures and documentation are followed during deceased patient aftercare • Client communications according to hospital policy • Medication administration for in house patients and refill processing for Internal Medicine patients • Outstanding nurse care • Ability to place catheters and draw blood from patients with compromised veins (peripheral or jugular).

In any other case, a request from a claimant for access to a deceased patient's medical records should be handled under the AHRA, where the holder of the medical records may charge for copying and postage.