Conference Reports

Highlights of the IPTA 3rd Congress These highlights are intended to stimulate interest in, and point out improved outcomes in, pediatric solid organ transplantation, and to suggest the depth and breadth of activity around the world.
September 08, 2005
45th Annual Conference of the ACLM Legal Medicine - Confronting the Challenges: A discussion of the most current legal and legislative trends that impact everyone who practices medicine.
April 27, 2005
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Related Conditions The optimal therapeutic regimen for lupus nephritis is hotly debated, as a significant number of patients progress to ESRD and require dialysis and renal transplantation.
July 16, 2004
From Noncompliance to Concordance in Renal Transplantation Despite the obvious importance of compliance with immunosuppressive therapy, noncompliance is frequent among transplant recipients, with rates ranging from 2% to 68%.
September 18, 2003
Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among the curative therapies for HCC, LT has gained wider acceptance as improvements in crude survival and recurrence-free survival have been demonstrated in selected cases.
July 10, 2003
Refractive Surgery Advances This report from the 2003 annual meeting of ASCRS highlights such advances in cataract and refractive surgery as wavefront technology and improved intraocular lenses.
May 30, 2003
Intrauterine Growth and Disease in Later Life This Conference Report from the 9th Asian Pacific Congress of Nephrology focuses on developmental origins of renal disease.
May 08, 2003
Organ Replacement Technologies: A New Frontier Various new technologies including stem cells, tissue engineering, xenotransplantation, and organogenesis all have potential for replacing or augmenting organ function.
March 10, 2003
Tumors and Solid Organ Transplantation Malignancy is a problem that requires careful consideration in the evaluation of organ donors and transplant recipients both before and after transplantation.
February 24, 2003
Live Organ Donation: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Significant challenges related to live organ donation face the transplant community, according to speakers at the NCQHC conference on uality in organ donation and transplantation.
December 20, 2002
Report From the 40th Annual Meeting of the IDSA Dr. Raymund Razonable from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, reports on current trends in opportunistic viral, bacterial, and fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients.
November 12, 2002
11th Annual Symposium and General Assembly of the ITNS Highights from the 11th Annual Symposium and General Assembly of the International Transplant Nurses Society.
October 25, 2002
Highlights From South African Renal Society Congress Nephrologists from South Africa discuss the challenges of ESRD care on a continent in the throes of development, where resources are scarce and future prospects not necessarily bright.
October 01, 2002
Long-term Kidney Allograft Function and Survival Evidence was presented at this meeting that delayed graft function, increased serum creatinine, and decreased GFR in the early posttransplant period are predictive of poor graft outcome.
September 24, 2002
Report From the 39th Congress of the EDTA/ERA Leading international authorities address frontline research and recent clinical developments in nephrology.
September 01, 2002
Highlights of the Eighth Congress of the ILTS Couldn't attend the conference? Read the highlights and join the 500 participants of the Eighth Congress of the ILTS.
July 25, 2002
Highlights From the 98th International Conference of the ATS Information on care of lung transplant candidates and new innovations that may defer the need for transplantation.
July 09, 2002
ASTS Second Annual Winter Symposium 2002 Novel interventions have renewed interest in the field of solid organ preservation for transplantation.
February 28, 2002
Sixth Annual AST Winter Symposium Microbes, rejection, atherosclerosis, and malignancy -- are they related?
February 22, 2002
Advances in Intestinal Transplantation Refinements in operative techniques, postoperative management, and immunosuppressive therapy improve outcomes in intestinal transplantation.
January 14, 2002