liver transplant

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- A substantial proportion of women evaluated for liver transplant had coexisting infection with the hepatitis C virus and high-risk human papillomavirus, investigators reported here.

Steve Jobs managed to live more than seven years with a rare form of pancreatic cancer that grows more slowly than the common kind.

But his need for a liver transplant two years ago was a bad sign that his troubles with the disease probably were not over....

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10 percent of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B interventions.

These interventions now successfully screen, treat, and vaccinate millions of Asian and Pacific Islander adults in the US and millions of children in China, according to a paper in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

MONTREAL (MedPage Today) -- Neither an intracardiac shunt nor pulmonary hypertension should be contraindications to orthotopic liver transplantation, an echocardiography study suggested.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors dropped another bomb soon after telling Matthew Rosiello it was time for a liver transplant: The 21-year-old isn't likely to get one any time soon in his home state of New York.

Consider traveling to Ohio, they advised, where the wait's a lot shorter....

(MedPage Today) -- Hepatocellular carcinoma patients who have HIV do just as well after a liver transplant as those who are not infected, French researchers reported.

CHICAGO (AP) -- In Illinois, a pharmacist closes his business because of late Medicaid payments. In Arizona, a young father's liver transplant is canceled because Medicaid suddenly won't pay for it.

In California, dentists pull teeth that could be saved because Medicaid doesn't pay for root canals....

(MedPage Today) -- Patients scheduled for liver transplant who felt that God could help them with their illness tended to survive longer after surgery than those without religious faith, researchers said.

A 4-pound Queens preemie got a life-saving liver transplant, making her one of the smallest tots to survive the procedure, officials said Tuesday.

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.