Transplants

Reports from Japan, Sweden and Brazil add new data to transplants research

Published in Virus Weekly, May 23rd, 2006

Data on transplants are outlined in reports from Japan, Sweden and Brazil.

Study 1: A study from Japan has reported that liver transplantation can be advantageous for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive patients.

"Whether HCV recurrence occurs earlier and with greater severity for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) than for deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) has recently become a subject of debate.

"We retrospectively evaluated clinical outcomes for a cohort of 91 HCV-positive patients who underwent LDLT at Kyoto University with a median follow-up period of 25 months," wrote Y. Takada and colleagues, Kyoto...

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