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Article: Forget organ allocation controversies, reports of new immunosuppressive drugs, the donor shortage, voluntary organ and tissue donation, and skepticism about limb transplants. That was the 1990s.
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- September 27, 2002
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Here's a picture of transplantation in the year 2002.
Graft tolerance without immunosuppression, injecting porcine islet cells to treatment of diabetes, transplanting HIV patients, hand transplants without fear of problems caused by immunosuppression, and worldwide commerce in organs. (reported in the last issue of Transplant News.)
The XIX Congress of the Transplantation Society proved to be a fertile launching pad for a variety of new approaches being studied to address the ongoing issues surrounding rejection, the donor shortage, recipient selection, and experimental new procedures/methods for treating patients with a variety of transplant/implant ...
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