On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible ...
Contrary to accepted wisdom, kidney donations from people whose hearts have stopped beating may, in fact, be just as good as donations from brain-dead organ donors. That result — released today by the ...
Overall, the study found that 45% of all brain donors showed evidence of vascular brain injury, establishing a baseline rate across the entire sample of 740 people. White matter damage was the most ...
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Alzheimer's disease research in brain tissue from African American donors points to roles for many novel genes
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...
(Boston)—The prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to White/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is ...
In this randomized trial involving hemodynamically unstable brain-dead potential heart donors, intravenous levothyroxine infusion did not result in more hearts being transplanted than saline infusion.
Muscat: Doctors in Oman have successfully performed the first-ever heart transplant from a brain-dead donor on an Omani patient suffering from heart failure. The five-hour procedure, carried out by an ...
Dressed in a yellow hospital visitor’s jacket, the man steadies himself on crutches and enters the room where his son, ...
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