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Transplant Medicine
Studies add new findings to transplant medicine body of knowledge
December 29th, 2005
New findings from Japan and Spain describe advances in transplant medicine. Study 1: Patients fare well without steroids after hepatitis C-related liver transplants. "To examine the benefits of steroid avoidance in adult living donor liver transplantation, we compared the clinical courses of nine recipients receiving basiliximab or daclizumab and 13 historical patients who received steroids," researchers in Japan report. "The 1-year patient and graft survival and the incidence of acute cellular rejection were similar in both groups," according to S. Marubashi and colleagues, Osaka University. Researchers said...
Source: Blood Weekly (2005-12-29)
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