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There was nothing anybody could do for these patients Now there is

Pam Belluck, The New York Times Published: 06 Apr 2021 02:21 PM BdST Updated: 06 Apr 2021 02:21 PM BdST Sonia Sein, who had irreparable damage to her trachea and received a new trachea in January, sits outside her Bronx home on Mar 22, 2021. Sein is believed to be the first patient in the world to undergo a successful direct transplant of a donor trachea. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times Sonia Sein, speaks with Dr Eric M Genden Sr, chairman of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, left, and Dr Sander S Florman, director of Mount Sinai’s Transplantation Institute, in New York on March 22, 2021. Sarah Blesener/The New York Times

Chinese Medical Expert s Suicide Draws Attention to Questionable Organ Transplant Model

Chinese Medical Expert’s Suicide Draws Attention to Questionable Organ Transplant ‘Model’ The suicide of Chinese organ transplant specialist Zang Yunjin has drawn attention to a questionable “Qingdao model” of human organ transplantation. Zang, 57, head of the Organ Transplantation Center at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, killed himself by jumping off a high building on Feb. 26, a source told the Chinese-language Epoch Times around Feb. 27. He was one of the most well-known liver transplant specialists in China and won a long list of titles and honors over his career for his involvement in the sector, based on China’s state media reports.

Researchers discover specific blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection

Researchers discover specific blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection with a lead time of about eight months, which could give doctors an opportunity to intervene and prevent permanent damage. These results, published today in Science Translational Medicine, not only identify a warning signal that something is going wrong, but also suggest an existing medication that could be given to these patients to right the course of their long-term recovery. We can t tell a priori if a patient is on too much or too little immune suppression-;we don t know until after rejection or an infection has already started. We wanted to find something that would tell us this patient is at risk of rejecting later so that we could change their immunosuppressants up front before the immune system revs up, before scarring and chronic damage is done

Blood Test for Kidney Rejection Suggests New Treatment

Date Time Blood Test for Kidney Rejection Suggests New Treatment PITTSBURGH– Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection with a lead time of about eight months, which could give doctors an opportunity to intervene and prevent permanent damage. These results, published today in Science Translational Medicine, not only identify a warning signal that something is going wrong, but also suggest an existing medication that could be given to these patients to right the course of their long-term recovery. “We can’t tell a priori if a patient is on too much or too little immune suppression we don’t know until after rejection or an infection has already started,” said senior author David Rothstein, M.D., the Pittsburgh Steelers Chair in Transplantation and professor of surgery, medicine and immunology at Pitt. “We wanted to find something that would tell us this patient is at risk of

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