A detailed insight from Dr. Deepak S Ray, Chief Nephrologist & Head of Renal Transplant Programme, Narayana Health, on how ...

Toronto, ON - Researchers at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children report that their recent switch to using the first available size-appropriate heart for neonates and infants regardless of ABO blood ...

Transplantation of hearts from ABO-incompatible donors is contraindicated because of the risk of hyperacute rejection mediated by preformed antibodies in the recipient to blood-group antigens of the ...

Toronto, ON - Hearts from ABO-incompatible donors can be safely transplanted into infants before they develop the natural antibodies that trigger hyperacute rejection, a new report suggests. In the ...

ABO blood type compatibility did not play a role in corneal transplant failure stemming from graft rejection in low-risk cases. Investigators aimed to determine whether ABO compatibility affected ...

ABO-incompatible heart transplantation was developed in the mid-1990s, after a Canadian transplant team led by Lori West realized that infants under the age of two have immature immune systems that ...

A pediatric heart transplant procedure pioneered by Canadian doctors--once deemed impossible--has been shown to be at least as effective as the traditional approach, according to newly published ...

ABO-incompatible heart transplantation (heart transplantation among noncompatible blood groups) can be safely performed in infants a year old or younger, researchers report. ABO-incompatible heart ...

Dorry Segev, MD MARCO ISLAND, Fla.—A brief escalation in immunosuppression without long-term B-cell depletion may provide excellent long-term patient and graft survival after ABO-incompatible (ABOi) ...

Background Transplantation of hearts from ABO-incompatible donors is contraindicated because of the risk of hyperacute rejection mediated by preformed antibodies in the recipient to blood-group ...