Researchers discover deep learning model to maximise lifespan after liver transplant ANI | Updated: Apr 13, 2021 07:27 IST
Toronto [Canada], April 13 (ANI): Researchers from University Health Network have developed and validated an innovative deep learning model to predict a patient s long-term outcome after receiving a liver transplant.
This model is the result of a collaboration between the Ajmera Transplant Centre and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. The study, published in Lancet Digital Health, shows it can significantly improve long-term survival and quality of life for liver transplant recipients. Historically, we have seen good advances in one-year post-transplant outcomes, but survival in the longer term has not significantly improved in the past decades, said Dr Mamatha Bhat, a hepatologist with the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN and co-senior author of the study.
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Toronto (April 12, 2021) - Researchers from University Health Network have developed and validated an innovative deep learning model to predict a patient s long-term outcome after receiving a liver transplant.
First of its kind in the field of Transplantation, this model is the result from a collaboration between the Ajmera Transplant Centre and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. The study, published in
Lancet Digital Health, shows it can significantly improve long-term survival and quality of life for liver transplant recipients. Historically, we have seen good advances in one-year post-transplant outcomes, but survival in the longer term hasn t significantly improved in the past decades, explains Dr. Mamatha Bhat, a hepatologist with the Ajmera Transplant Centre at UHN and co-senior author of the study.
Published Monday, April 12, 2021 6:35AM EDT TORONTO Timothy Sauve was brushing his teeth one morning in December when he was hit by a dizzy spell that knocked him off his feet. The 61-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., didn t expect that to be the first sign of a COVID-19 infection. But within days he had developed a fever, experienced breathlessness in his sleep, and was rushed to hospital with a deteriorating condition that eventually required a double-lung transplant - believed to be the first done in Canada on a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged by the virus. Sauve, a healthy, physically fit man before he contracted the virus, saw the infection wreak havoc on his lungs over his two-month stay in the intensive care units of two different Toronto area hospitals.
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Timothy Sauve and his partner Julie Garcia pose for a selfie on Toronto s Centre Island in a Sept. 7, 2018, handout photo. Sauve, a 61-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., was rushed to hospital with a deteriorating condition that eventually required a double-lung transplant believed to be the first done in Canada on a patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged by COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Timothy Sauve, MANDATORY CREDIT April 12, 2021 - 1:00 AM
TORONTO - Timothy Sauve was brushing his teeth one morning in December when he was hit by a dizzy spell that knocked him off his feet.
The 61-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., didn t expect that to be the first sign of a COVID-19 infection. But within days he had developed a fever, experienced breathlessness in his sleep, and was rushed to hospital with a deteriorating condition that eventually required a double-lung transplant â