transplant patients

(MedPage Today) -- The kidney transplant list is increasingly populated by patients who've already beat the odds by receiving other organ transplants, researchers found.

Among solid-organ transplant recipients, the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus caused illness ranging from mild to deadly, although early antiviral treatment improved outcomes, researchers found.

It's impossible to predict how a face transplant patient will cope with viewing his new countenance in the mirror, experts say.

Extending the period of treatment with antiviral drugs after a kidney or pancreas transplant is a cost-effective way to prevent cytomegalovirus infections that often lead to devastating consequences.

(University of California - Davis) A new genomic analysis shows that small-bowel transplant patients with an ileostomy have a very different population of bacteria living in their gut than patients whose ileostomy has been closed.

(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) After comparing two patient cancer registries -- one featuring transplant patients and the other the general population -- researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found that transplant patients experience worse outcomes from cancer.

PHILADELPHIA -- As soon as patients are added to an organ transplant waiting list, they should be asked if they will accept an organ from a donor who is older or sicker than standard criteria allow, according to ethicists here.