Sentences with phrase «used after a transplant»

Patients received standard medication used after a transplant to prevent GVHD.

Not exact matches

It was, after all, in the immediate aftermath of the first successful human heart transplant that the medical profession recognized the need to establish criteria to pronounce «brain death,» to be used in certain cases in place of traditional «cardiorespiratory» criteria for death.

Use a thickness of at least two sheets after the transplants have been set out.

When jaundice mounts, and liver failure is likely, a liver transplant may offer hope, for the five - year survival rate after this operation with the use of cyclosporine has been reported to be better than 60 percent.

In the early 2000s, Johns Hopkins scientists Leo Luznik and Ephraim Fuchs found that giving patients high doses of cyclophosphamide — a drug derived from nitrogen mustard and used to treat blood cancers — three days after bone marrow transplant successfully thwarts acute and chronic GVHD.

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists first used cyclophosphamide to prevent severe graft - versus - host disease (GVHD) after bone marrow transplant involving haploidentical or «half - matched» transplants, a treatment first used in 2000 at the Cancer Center to treat leukemias and other blood cancers.

Rapamycin is an immune modifier first used after kidney transplant.

New research in mice indicates that a drug commonly used to suppress the immune system in recipients of organ transplants may also reduce tissue damage and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.

Researchers compared 10 - year survival after being listed for transplant using two opposing strategies: waiting for a donor heart to which the candidate does not have antibodies or taking the first suitable offer, regardless of potential problems that antibodies may pose.

«Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft - versus - host disease: Drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis improves survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplant.»

Results from a clinical trial investigating a new T cell receptor (TCR) therapy that uses a person's own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells demonstrated a clinical response in 80 percent of multiple myeloma patients with advanced disease after undergoing autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT).

«Long - term remissions in some patients after stem cell transplants from donors have been observed, but treatment - related toxicity limits the widespread use of this therapy.»

Young and colleagues used DNA sequencing to study the composition and structure of fecal microbiota (bacteria) in stool samples from 14 patients before and two to four weeks after fecal transplant.

However, in people with compromised immune systems — such as those using long - term steroids for asthma, joint pain, or after an organ transplant — the mild form of the illness can progress to the potentially lethal form, a situation called hyperinfection.

The present turmoil began in May when the couple lodged a complaint in a court in the northern city of Amiens after learning that doctors had removed their dead son's eyes for use in transplant surgery.

After two earlier published attempts that led to early - stage embryos but not confirmed embryonic stem cells, Mitalipov and colleagues took steps to preserve a protein complex believed to help primate eggs restructure transplanted DNA, and employed a new imaging system to observe the egg's chromosomes directly instead of by staining them or using ultraviolet light, which might damage DNA.

The findings illuminate the specialized roles played by key members of the vast microbial community living in the human gut, and could inform the development of tailored microbiota transplants to improve intestinal health after antibiotic use or illness.

Surgeons and researchers here are proposing the use of the Pittsburgh Protocol for immunosuppression after hand transplant.

Tests of urine, blood, and tissue biopsy from the kidney will be used to determine who is at risk for kidney dysfunction after the liver transplant.

Immunologists reported recently that the drug rapamycin, normally used to restrain the immune system after organ transplant, has the unexpected ability to broaden the activity of a flu vaccine.

Replacing brain cells using stem cells from embryos was tried before but didn't work well, probably because we didn't understand how to look after the cells, nurture them to become neurons and get them to make the right connections when transplanted into HD brain.

It is used to help prevent rejection after organ transplant operations and also to treat a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

After transplanting cabbages to outside, it is recommendable to use a starter fertilizer.

The nutrients important to the after - transplant diet have been compiled to make it convenient for your use.

It is also used after bone marrow transplants and bowel surgery to improve recovery, prevent infection, and increase well - being.

New Insights on Pain and Opioid Use in People With Sickle Cell Disease After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (March 12, 2018)

Immunosuppressive medicines are used after an organ has been transplanted from one person to another.

Other similar powerful medications used to disable the immune system after organ transplants or cancer have also been used.

A similar problem occurs with cyclosporine, an immune suppressant used in immune - mediated disease, allergy, or after an organ transplant.

A similar problem occurs with cyclosporine, an immune suppressant used in immune mediated disease, allergy, or after an organ transplant.

The Incube was designed with the need to eventually transplant the tree from the device into the ground, after which it can be used again with another Bios Urn, and the company says the Incube is «produced entirely with «cradle - to - cradle» materials and methods.»

After a kidney transplant, the body may use its immune system to reject the new prevent that from happening.