Sentences with phrase «outs of liver transplant»

Not exact matches

Twenty percent of those kids may eventually need a liver transplant, but they're likely to be out of luck; looks like we're not going to have enough livers to go around.

Liver cells carry out hundreds of different functions, only some of which Lagasse has tested in mice, and it is unlikely that transplanted cells could fulfill all of them in humans.

U.S. biotechnology company Circe Biomedical has had similar success, she said, showing in an ongoing clinical trial of a similar device using pig liver cells that six out of 36 patients have completely recovered without the need for transplant.

«Our findings indicate the need to understand how Medicaid expansion affected access to care, out - of - pocket expenditures, and clinical outcomes among liver transplant recipients, given the changes in their insurance status occurring due to this policy.»

To find out, they randomized a total of 719 patients between 25 and 35 days after liver transplant into three study arms.

The Boston Globe tells the story of Boston Children's patient Sloan St. James who was diagnosed with biliary atresia and received a liver transplant after Lt. Steven Tenney found out he was a match to donate.

Defending a pharmaceutical company in an action arising out of the plaintiff's use of a statin medication, which use, she alleges, resulted in her needing a liver transplant.

My husband has been in and out of University of Washington Medical Center over the past 2 years for a liver transplant and various complications.