Cytomegalovirus Resistance Less in Valganciclovir-treated Transplant Patients
Saturday, 08 May 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Valganciclovir, a prodrug of ganciclovir with increased bioavailability after oral administration, has been found in a multicenter study not to be associated with resistance mutations after prophylactic use in organ transplant recipients.
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Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Restores Renal Vasodilation in Diabetics
Friday, 23 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Normal vasodilatory ability appears to be restored in uremic type 1 diabetic patients after kidney and pancreas transplantation, Italian researchers report in the April issue of Diabetes Care.
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Kidneys From Older Donors Generally Provide Good Function
Wednesday, 14 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kidneys from older donors provide good allograft function and most recipients do well, according to a report published in the April issue of the Archives of Surgery.
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Cardiac Dysfunction Seen in Children after Kidney Transplantation
Thursday, 01 April 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac hypertrophy is often seen in children after renal transplantation, and new research suggests that this structural abnormality has functional consequences.
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Heart and Kidney Disease Share Many Risk Factors
Monday, 23 February 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many of the risk factors tied to heart disease -- such as hypertension, diabetes, and smoking -- are also risk factors for new-onset kidney disease, findings from a new study indicate.
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Minorities Have Better Odds for Kidney Transplants
Thursday, 05 February 2004
BOSTON (Reuters) - A federally mandated change in the way doctors test for compatibility in kidney transplants has increased the number of organs going to minorities by about 7.2%, according to a study reported this week in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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UK Physicians Back Organ Donation Plan
Tuesday, 03 February 2004
LONDON (Reuters Health) - British doctors have thrown their support behind a proposal heard in parliament on Tuesday that suggests making significant changes to the country's organ donation system.
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Age Over 65 Is Not Associated with Poorer Outcomes after Laparoscopic Urological Surgery
Tuesday, 30 December 2003
Minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery purportedly eases the operative burden on patients by lessening incisional pain, decreasing narcotic use, improving post-operative respiratory function, allowing earlier mobility and resulting in shorter periods of hospitalization.
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New Immunosuppressant May Prevent Transplant Rejection with Fewer Side Effects
Thursday, 30 October 2003
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental new immunosuppressant drug could help prevent rejection of transplanted organs with fewer side effects, U.S.-based researchers said on Thursday.
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Sildenafil Has Beneficial Vascular Effects in Cardiac Transplant Recipients
Friday, 24 October 2003
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sildenafil (Viagra), the popular erectile dysfunction drug, improves blood pressure and has other beneficial vascular effects in cardiac transplant recipients with hypertension, new research shows.
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Euro MPs Seek EU Ban on Buying and Selling Organs
Thursday, 23 October 2003
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers on Thursday called on member states to bar wealthy EU citizens from buying organs from poor donors outside the bloc, a trade dubbed "transplant tourism."
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Modified Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy Provides Benefits Over Open Nephroureterectomy and Results in no Increased Risk of Tumor Recurrence
Monday, 20 October 2003
Dr. H.C. Klingler and colleagues from Vienna, Austria write in the October issue of European Urology about their experience with 19 patients who underwent modified laparoscopic nephroureterectomies (LNU) and compared them to 15 who had standard open nephroureterectomies (ONU).
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Ultrasound and Molecular Tests Useful in Predicting Renal Allograft Survival
Wednesday, 09 July 2003
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The renal arterial resistance index, determined with ultrasound, and DNA microarray profiling appear to be useful in predicting graft survival after kidney transplantation, according to findings from two studies published in the July 10th issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Living Kidney Donors Seen to Have Few Long-Term Sequelae
Wednesday, 25 June 2003
VIENNA (Reuters Health) - Researchers in Switzerland have found that kidney donors continue to have stable renal function for up to 10 years after undergoing nephrectomy.
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Enalapril Renoprotective in Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
Thursday, 12 June 2003
BERLIN (Reuters Health) - The progression of renal failure in kidney transplant patients with chronic nephropathy is slowed when they are treated with the ACE inhibitor enalapril, a researcher said at the World Congress of Nephrology.
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Renal Transplantation, Vascular Disease 
