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Anyone watching Kelly Rowe set records as a sprinter at Mansfield Lake Ridge High School and then compete on a track scholarship at the University of Mississippi, would assume she was in peak health. They鈥檇 have no reason to suspect she had been on a battery of medications and gone to countless doctor appointments ever since she was 8. That鈥檚 when she was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, a condition that attacks the liver and leads to long-term damage.

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UChicago Medicine's current clinic on Salt Creek Lane in Hinsdale will close Nov. 21, and open across the street in a new, larger facility Dec. 2.

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Um homem pode piscar, engolir, sorrir e respirar pelo nariz pela primeira vez em uma d茅cada, gra莽as a um transplante facial realizado na Mayo Clinic. Esse procedimento complexo e transformador destaca a equipe cir煤rgica multidisciplinar altamente capacitada da Mayo Clinic, que oferece esperan莽a aos pacientes com necessidades m茅dicas complexas.

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Un hombre puede parpadear, tragar, sonre铆r y respirar por la nariz por primera vez en una d茅cada, gracias a un trasplante facial realizado en Mayo Clinic. Este procedimiento complejo y transformador destaca al equipo quir煤rgico multidisciplinario altamente capacitado de Mayo Clinic, que ofrece esperanza a los pacientes con necesidades m茅dicas complejas.

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A Michigan man can blink, swallow, smile and breathe through his nose for the first time in a decade thanks to a face transplant performed at Mayo Clinic. This transformative and complex procedure underscores Mayo Clinic's skilled multidisciplinary surgical team who provide hope to patients with complex medical needs.

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Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin鈥揗adison and Mayo Clinic.

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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Childhood Constipation and More in the November Issue of AJG

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The article, Safety of Kidney Transplantation from Donors with HIV, details findings supporting HIV-to-HIV kidney transplants as safe and just as effective as those using organs from donors without HIV.

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Lurie Children鈥檚 surpassed a hospital record in its recent fiscal year by performing a record 140 pediatric transplants, including, heart, kidney, liver and stem cell.鈥�

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In a novel study that identified male chromosome genetic material in the intestines of female patients undergoing fecal transplants, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have significantly expanded scientific understanding of how some of these transplants may succeed and work.

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Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD, has been named Head of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies within the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).

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A new international trial is investigating the efficacy and safety of gene therapy in patients with Hurler syndrome and will compare results of gene therapy against BMT which is the current standard of care. UCSF Benioff Children鈥檚 Hospitals are among three sites in the U.S. and seven in the world now enrolling patients for the clinical trial.

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Dr. Roy-Chaudhury will head up an organization鈥攚ith nearly 21,000 health professionals representing 140 countries鈥攄edicated to leading the fight against kidney diseases.

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For kidney transplant recipients experiencing antibody-mediated rejection, the current standard of care involves removing donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) through plasmapheresis (PLEX)鈥攁 procedure that removes antibodies from the plasma portion of the blood. Results from a recent clinical trial reveal that an investigational drug called imlifidase, which cleaves and inactivates the type of antibodies that include DSAs, is more effective than PLEX. The research will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2024 October 23鈥�27.

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Chronic active antibody-mediated rejection (caAMR) is a common cause of allograft loss after transplantation, with no approved therapies. Clazakizumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6), stabilized kidney transplant recipients鈥� kidney function in a phase 2 trial. Investigators now have data from a phase 3 trial with clazakizumab. The findings from the Phase 3 IMAGINE trial, the largest placebo-controlled study in kidney transplant recipients with caAMR, will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2024 October 23鈥� 27.

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Prior efforts to identify novel kidney biomarkers as risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression have typically evaluated proteins individually, which limits their prognostic power. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases鈥� (NIDDK鈥檚) CKD Biomarkers Consortium of investigators recently developed and tested novel dimensions of kidney health by combining a set of 17 urine and plasma biomarkers that had been individually associated with CKD progression. The research will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2024 October 23鈥� 27.