Search Tag: liver transplant
Nursing-data-help-predict-cirrhosis-patient-s-survival
2015 11 Apr
Standard assessments that nurses already use to care for patients can provide data that significantly improve the ability to predict survival following a liver transplant and may help improve patient outcomes. This finding is based on a study from Liver Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and published in the journal Hepatology ....Read more
Combo-therapy-eradicates-hep-c-in-liver-transplant-patients
2014 10 Nov
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, FA, USA) have found that the use of two new oral medications is effective in fighting hepatitis C infection amongst liver transplant patients. Given the clinical importance of the study, results have been presented in a plenary session of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver...Read more
Study-liver-transplant-patients-seek-closer-involvement
2014 18 Jul
Findings of a recent study, the first of its kind, have revealed that liver transplant candidates wish to be involved in the decision as to whether they should accept or reject a donor organ. Discussed in the journal Liver Transplantation, the project has been spearheaded by Robert Porte, a Professor of Surgery at the University Medical Centre Groningen...Read more