New Machine-Perfusion Organ Preservation System Keeps Livers Healthier for...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22, 2015 – A new preservation system that pumps cooled, oxygen-rich fluid into donor livers not only keeps the organs in excellent condition for as long as nine hours before...
View ArticleUPMC Approved to Perform Kidney Transplants at UPMC Hamot
ERIE, Pa., Jan. 22, 2015 – The private organization that manages the nation’s organ sharing network has given approval for UPMC surgeons to start performing kidney transplants at UPMC Hamot. The...
View ArticleRebooting Cell Programming Can Reverse Liver Failure, Says Children’s...
PITTSBURGH, March 16, 2015 – It might be possible to heal cirrhotic liver disease by rebooting the genes that control liver cell function, according to researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh...
View ArticleUPMC Clinicians Win Beckwith Institute Grants to Engage Patients, Improve Care
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2014 –To experiment with changes big and small that might better engage patients and improve health care, The Beckwith Institute recently awarded 11 new grants to UPMC clinicians...
View ArticleUPMC-Managed Transplant Hospital Drives Major Economic Benefits for Sicily,...
PITTSBURGH, May 28, 2015 – ISMETT, a leading transplant hospital managed by UPMC in Palermo, Italy, boosted the Sicilian economy by €132.5 million in expenditure in 2013, generated nearly 2,000 jobs...
View ArticleFDA Approves Blood Test Developed by UPMC Researchers to Predict Rejection in...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5, 2014 – A first-of-its-kind, personalized blood test to predict the likelihood of organ rejection in children with liver or intestine transplants has received U.S. Food and Drug...
View ArticleUPMC Clinicians Win Beckwith Institute Grants to Engage Patients, Improve Care
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2014 –To experiment with changes big and small that might better engage patients and improve health care, The Beckwith Institute recently awarded 11 new grants to UPMC clinicians...
View ArticleNaturally Occurring Antibodies May be Treatment for BK Nephropathy in Kidney...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2014 – A viral infection known as BK that commonly causes kidney transplant dysfunction in patients taking high doses of immunosuppressants may be treated with naturally...
View ArticleSurgical, Other Advances Made at UPMC Improve Graft Survival of Intestinal,...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2014 – Innovations in surgical techniques, drugs and immunosuppression have improved survival after intestinal and multi-visceral transplants, according to a retrospective...
View ArticlePitt Researchers Receive $1.25 Million from Defense Department to Make...
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7, 2014 – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have been awarded $1.25 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to fund two projects that aim to establish...
View ArticleStem-Cell Transplant Patients Followed Closely At New UPMC CancerCenter Clinic
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17, 2014 – Six months after his transplant for autoimmune hepatitis, stem-cell patient Craig Beary, of Clarion, started experiencing the symptoms of chronic graft vs. host disease...
View ArticleUPMC Patient First in U.S. Implanted with Hemolung Before Lifesaving Double...
PITTSBURGH, July 2, 2014 – Suffering from cystic fibrosis and rejecting the transplanted lungs he had gotten just two years ago, Jon Sacker, 33, came to UPMC from his hometown in Moore, Oklahoma, as a...
View ArticleUPMC Presbyterian Receives Highest National Honor for Organ Donor Enrollment...
PITTSBURGH, July 15, 2014 – UPMC Presbyterian was recognized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for reaching the gold level of achievement, the highest possible, for conducting...
View ArticleUPMC Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program Re-Accredited by FACT
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13, 2013 – UPMC CancerCenter’s Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program has been awarded a three-year re-accreditation by the nonprofit Foundation for the Accreditation of...
View ArticleDecellularized Mouse Heart Beats Again after Regeneration with Human Heart...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13, 2013 – For the first time, a mouse heart was able to contract and beat again after its own cells were stripped and replaced with human heart precursor cells, said scientists from...
View ArticleMcGowan Institute Will Co-Direct $75 Million Second Phase of National Effort...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27, 2013 – The Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) will continue its efforts to apply the latest in tissue engineering and other regenerative medicine techniques...
View ArticleUPMC Performs 100 Lung Transplants for Eighth Consecutive Year
In 2013, the UPMC Lung Transplantation Program performed 100 lung transplants, an achievement that has set apart the program for eight consecutive years. This number exceeds many other transplant...
View ArticleUPMC Passavant and UPMC Shadyside Receive Nation’s Top Ratings for Heart Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has awarded top quality ratings to UPMC Passavant and UPMC Shadyside. UPMC Passavant received the maximum “three star” rating for coronary artery bypass grafting...
View ArticleUPMC Researchers Shine Light on Common Heart Complication After Lung...
Cardiac arrhythmia is a common complication following lung transplantation, and one that has a significant negative impact on long-term patient survival, reports a team of UPMC researchers in the...
View ArticleDonate Life America and UPMC Partner to Increase Living Donor Transplant...
Donate Life America and UPMC are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind online community aimed at increasing living donor transplant awareness. The initiative recently launched with the activation of the...
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