Sentences with phrase «risk transplant surgery»
«Here's a person who has received a precious organ in a liver or a heart, after going through high risk transplant surgery and the mental anguish that goes along with that,» says Thakar.
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Particularly at risk are people with compromised immune systems (HIV and transplant patients), those who are aging, recovering from gastrointestinal surgeries or are on antibiotics for more than three days to treat other illnesses.
Again, patients having surgery inside the chest cavity, on major blood vessels, or organ transplants were at greatest risk.
If the tumor has recurred, Alexander said treatment options would include chemotherapy or embolization, although performing surgery «on a transplanted liver is high - risk.»
But, if a child is classified as high - risk, the survival rate falls to approximately 50 percent even with an aggressive treatment plan that includes high - dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, radiation and immunotherapy.
Unfortunately, corneal transplants are rarely performed in canine patients with CED due to the expense of the surgery and follow - up care, relatively high risk of complications, and lack of appropriate donor tissue.