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Article: Donor cell injections in thymus improve outcomes for pediatric heart transplants.
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- Drug Week
- Article date:
- June 27, 2003
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2003 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- One to 5 years after heart transplantation, children who had received injections of their donor's bone marrow into their thymus during the surgery had significantly fewer "late" rejection episodes than children who received heart transplants without the addition of the bone marrow containing donor immune system cells, according to a study performed by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
The children receiving the injections also required fewer antirejection drugs. These and other results of the human trial - the only one of its kind - were presented at ...