Sentences with phrase «of transplant surgery»
WINSTON - SALEM, N.C. — Aug. 3, 2015 — Giuseppe Orlando, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of transplant surgery at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and researcher at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine, has been selected to participate in a $ 9 million project to develop a cell - therapy product to treat diabetes without insulin injections.
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With the number of transplant surgeries in India on the rise, insurers have come out with healthcare plans that cover the medical expenses of both donors and donees.
«Our study is the first to show that NAD + can tune the immune response and restore tissue integrity by activating stem cells,» said Abdallah ElKhal, PhD, BWH Division of Transplant Surgery and Transplantation Surgery Research Laboratory, senior study author.
«Her work has the potential to change the face of transplantation and to save countless lives,» said Dr. James Markmann, chief of transplant surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
«The fact that fetal stem cell transplantation has not been very successful has been puzzling, especially given the widely accepted dogma that the immature fetal immune system can adapt to tolerate foreign substances,» said co-senior author Qizhi Tang, PhD, an assistant professor of transplant surgery and director of the UCSF Transplantation Research Lab.
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At that time the technology of transplant surgery was beginning to make progress, and some people suspected that the desire to establish in law a concept of brain death was motivated only by the wish to obtain organs for transplant before those organs had deteriorated (as they will rapidly when heart and lung activity fail).
«But a system of this kind seems to have the potential to close the aching gap between the potential benefits of transplant surgery and the limits imposed by our current system of consent.
Scleral contact lenses lower the rate of transplant surgery in patients with severe keratoconus, according to this retrospective analysis.
As Stefan Tullius, MD, chair of transplant surgery at Harvard Medical School, put it, «All of a sudden, you have this old organ doing things that you only expected a young uterus to do.»
To qualify under Major Organ Failure on Waiting List, the Insured Person must become enrolled as the recipient in a recognized transplant centre in Canada or the United States of America that performs the required form of transplant surgery.
«The fact of the matter is, we need more organ donors,» said Kim Olthoff, MD, chief of the division of Transplant Surgery.
«This is a universal molecule that can potentially treat not only autoimmune diseases, but other acute or chronic conditions such as allergy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sepsis and immunodeficiency,» said Stefan G. Tullius, MD, PhD, BWH Chief of Transplant Surgery and Director of Transplantation Surgery Research, lead study author.