Liver Transplant for Hepatitis C Has Good Outcome
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NEW YORK  - The first detailed report of  outcomes after 10 years for people given a liver transplant  because of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection shows that these  individuals fare just as well as those undergoing liver  transplantation for other reasons.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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NEW YORK  - After children and adolescents receive an organ transplant, more than 90 percent do well at the one-year mark. Thereafter, unfortunately, the rate of loss of the grafted organ increases, investigators report.
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NEW YORK  - Most people who have had a liver transplant because of cirrhosis caused by heavy drinking are not likely to experience recurrent alcohol-related liver disease, French researchers report.
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The health of Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto improved Saturday, a day after he suffered multiple organ failure, as the government said a major graft case against him would be settled out of court.
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With little time left before his organs would likely fail, Marine Lance Cpl. Chris LeBleu was in surgery Sunday to receive a new liver for a mysterious ailment doctors said would kill him if he didn't get a transplant.
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Transplanting pig organs into humans may be much safer than previously thought, a study suggests.
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For the first time, doctors said Monday they have found a pill that improves survival for people with liver cancer, a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in more than half a million people globally each year.
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The drugmaker gets a step closer to starting a clinical trial for a hepatitis C drug.
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The number of people with the severe liver disease hepatitis C in England has soared, figures show.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- West Nile virus may be especially harmful to organ transplant recipients, placing them at high risk for severe neurological illness, according to a study in the August issue of the Archives of Neurology.
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A technique would let scientists use a patientâs skin cell to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells that might be transplantable.
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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NEW YORK  - People infected with the  hepatitis C virus risk developing liver cancer, and now  Japanese researchers have identified several factors that  increase that risk.  Being male, advancing age, high liver enzyme levels and low  cholesterol levels all increase the likelihood of liver cancer  occurring in someone with hepatitis C but no current symptoms,  they report.
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A 'one-in-six-billion miracle' An Australian teenager has been dubbed a "one-in-six-billion miracle" after her blood group changed following a liver transplant, Reuters reports.â¦
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A technique for identifying early liver damage could help improve detection of the deadly condition cirrhosis.