liver transplant

The rapid evolution of clinical experience in liver transplantation during recent years has prompted several leading organizations to revisit the general recommendations used in patient selection and organ allocation, a new report revealed.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- In patients with advanced liver disease related to hepatitis C, a course of pegylated interferon and ribavirin (Rebetol) before liver transplant may help them avoid recurrence of infection, a researcher said here.

A celebrity like Apple CEO Steve Jobs scores a rare organ transplant and the world wonders: Did he game the system?

The rich have plenty of advantages that others don't. But winning the "transplant lottery" involves more than the size of your wallet - and true medical need....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has an "excellent prognosis" after receiving a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital, a doctor confirmed Tuesday.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Sending text message reminders may increase adherence to immunosuppressant medications in teens who have had liver transplants, a preliminary study showed.

TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- People with HIV do just as well as others after a liver transplant -- as long as they don't have hepatitis C as well, researchers said in Copenhagen.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found....

DURHAM, N.C. (MedPage Today) -- The objective scoring system adopted in 2002 for allocating livers for transplantation has put women at a disadvantage, even as it appears to have eliminated an earlier racial disparity, researchers here said.

The death this week of a musician who was three times denied a liver transplant highlights a new ethical concern: When dying patients need a transplant, should it be held against them if they've used marijuana with a doctor's blessing?