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  WHO audit on Italian safety guidelines for organ transplantation
 

Following transmission of HIV to three blood recipients in the Tuscany Region (Florence) in 2007, the Italian health authorities requested the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe to... continue


  The ALLIANCE-O project white paper and future perspectives
 

The main European transplant organizations actively took part to ALLIANCE-O, a project financed by the European Commission that aimed at setting up further cooperation and coordination in European national... continue


  The new version of the EUROCET portal is online
 

EUROCET is an online multilingual registry that publishes official and updated data on tissues and cells donation and transplantation activity from all EU member states, collected by the Italian National... continue


  Italy: world's first lung transplant on an HIV patient
  The first ever lung transplant on an HIV recipient took place in Palermo, southern Italy, at the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialised Therapies (ISMETT). The male patient... continue

  Italy: three patients transplanted with HIV-positive organs
  Three recipients were transplanted in the Region of Tuscany, last week, with HIV-positive organs because of a wrong transcription of the laboratory analyses conducted by a biologist. The organ donor was... continue

  Johns Hopkins: first domino donor - quintuple kidney transplant
  Nov. 14th The Johns Hopkins Hospital transplant team successfully performed an outstanding transplant intervention: the first five-way donor kidney exchange among 10 individuals. All five organ recipients... continue

  Commercial umbilical cord blood banking should be discouraged by NHS maternity units
  A recent article published in the BMJ* provides a global point of view on the growing parental demand for umbilical cord blood storing in private banks. Taking into account all the aspects laying behind... continue
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