Using cold storage (CS) to preserve livers prior to transplantation has been the norm for the past 20 years. However, that may be coming to an end. Scientists at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center have published a study with new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine profusion (HMP) may offer a significant [Sign in to read the full article...]

About 25% of healthy people have abnormalities in their kidneys and blood vessels, but most of them aren’t serious enough to prevent a becoming an organ donor, according to a new study. In the study, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, conducted CT scans of the kidneys and renal arteries of nearly 2,000 [Sign in to read the full article...]

Researchers in the US have identified a new disease mechanism and therapeutic approach for a type of advanced kidney disease that is a common cause of complications in patients with lupus. “The standard treatment for lupus kidney disease is to block inflammation,” said Lionel Ivashkiv, associate chief officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New [Sign in to read the full article...]

A novel – and natural – way of creating new bones suitable for transplanting into humans may become a reality in the near future, according to a new study. Scientists in Italy report they have developed a way of turning rattan wood into bone that is almost identical to human tissue and has already been [Sign in to read the full article...]

Many heart transplant patients develop multiple skin cancers, perhaps because they have greater use of immunosuppressive medications or are generally older at the time of transplantation, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported in the December issue of the journal Archives of Dermatology. “Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk for skin cancers,” the authors [Sign in to read the full article...]