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1997 Archives

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EDITOR: Paul Kuo, MD

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• UNOS Announces Improved Survival Rates in 3000-Page Report
• Five-Day-Old Girl is Youngest Liver Recipient
• FDA Approves Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Kidney Rejection
• Pancreas Transplantation Halts Polyneuropathy in Long-Term Study
• Medical Center Defends James Earl Ray's Acceptance into Transplant Program
• Immune Tolerance Work Attracts Attention
• Transplant Briefs

• UNOS Report Analyzes Organ Acceptance Rates
• Medical Center Calls for Broad Sharing of Donor Livers
• Organ Matching System Disadvantages Blacks, Study Says
• Kevorkian Wants to Harvest Organs of Suicide Victims
• Study Uses Radiation to Prevent Rejection of Heart Transplants
• Interferon Found to Preserve Livers Longer
• Gene Therapy Studied to Prevent Organ Rejection
• Bladder Cancer Higher in Renal Transplant Recipients
• Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Survival Rates Reported
• Use of Basiliximab Lessens Incidence of Kidney Rejection
• Novartis Files for Marketing Approval for Simulect
• Patients Safely Switch Cyclosporines in Clinical Trial
• Transplant Business News

• Seven-year-old Boy Receives a Second Heart
• Pig Livers a Possible Solution for Humans
• Pig Livers Found to Carry Viruses
• Early Warning Sign Said to Predict Heart Rejection
• Split Liver Transplantation Gains Attention
• Ventricular Assist Device Achieves Milestone

• First Report of Simultaneous Living-Related Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
• Tacrolimus Promising for Atopic Dermatitis
• Methotrexate Found Useful for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
• NKF Announces Dialysis Guidelines
• Recurrence of Hepatitis C after Liver Transplantation is Studied
• Donor Organs to Go to Some HIV Patients
• Summary Available of Religious Views on Transplantation

• LVAD to be Studied as an Alternative to Heart Transplantation
• Epoprostenol Used as a Bridge to Liver Transplantation
• Peanut Allergy Transplanted with Liver
• Laparoscopy Promising for Live Donor Nephrectomy
• Monkey Kidney Transplants Successful without Immunosuppression
• Emory Has Triple Focus: Transplantation, Research, and Training
• Good Intentions Not Enough to Ensure Organ Donation

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