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BACKGROUND: Static cold storage is generally used to preserve kidney allografts from deceased donors. Hypothermic...
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown a higher incidence of biliary complications following donation after cardiac...
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The Canadian Forces’ (CF) deployable hospital, 1 Canadian Field Hospital, was deployed to Haiti after...
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An updated definition of early allograft dysfunction (EAD) was recently validated in a multicenter...
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BACKGROUND: An updated definition of early allograft dysfunction (EAD) was recently validated in a multicenter...
Didactic and laboratory anatomical education have seen significant reductions in the medical school curriculum due,...
BACKGROUND: Fulminant hepatitis progresses to acute liver failure (ALF) when the extent of hepatocyte death...
BACKGROUND: The 1910 Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada is...
BACKGROUND: As part of its contribution to the Global War on Terror and North Atlantic...
In late 2005, Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS) was tasked with the command of the...
Background: In the war against the Taliban, Canada was the lead North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Blast attacks are the commonest form of terrorist attack on civilians. Blast often causes injury...
INTRODUCTION: Liver transplantation is a highly effective treatment for end-stage liver disease. However, there is...
Background: Abraham Groves worked as a general practitioner and surgeon in the small town of...
Combat-related eye injuries continue to increase in frequency and are generally secondary to Improvised Explosive...
BACKGROUND: Complications of renal failure may prevent timely evacuation of injured soldiers. Conventional renal replacement...
BACKGROUND: The disparity between the number of patients waiting for an organ transplant and availability...
BACKGROUND: Fluid excess may place patients undergoing surgery at risk for various complications. Hypertonic saline...
Acute liver failure continues to be associated with a high mortality rate, and emergency liver...
BACKGROUND: The practice of surgery had changed little over millennia when Abraham Groves and William...
The objective of this study was to determine if clinically important thromboembolic adverse events (TAEs)...
The effect of adding a calcium channel antagonist to kidney allograft perfusate solution was assessed....
CONTEXT: Benefits of recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) in hemorrhage may be lost because of...
This study comprises a historical review of liver transplants performed in Canada during 2000--2004, and...
OBJECTIVES: For years, the reference standard in the evaluation of living donor vascular anatomy has...
The mandate of the Global Health Task Force was to advise the Dean regarding the...
Background: Since its inception 50 years ago, the Canadian Journal of Surgery has published articles...
Immunosuppression remains a key issue in neural transplantation. Systemic administration of cyclosporin-A is currently widely...
Introduction: The impact of local provision of specialty service on patients' access to care was...
Introduction: Prophylactic cholecystectomy (PC) is advised after ES and clearance of ductal calculi on the...
BACKGROUND: Cholecystectomy is not required in up to 64% of patients who adopt a wait-and-see...
Non-invasive tools such as endoscopic ultrasound and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography have assisted the diagnosis of...
Cardiac and cerebral vascular diseases are leading causes of morbidity and death in solid organ...
Milan and University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) criteria are used to select patients...
Early renal allograft dysfunction may be caused by a number of technical factors including thrombosis,...
A systematic review of randomized clinical trials (RCT) was undertaken to evaluate the beneficial and...
BK virus associated nephropathy (BKVAN) has emerged as an important cause of renal allograft dysfunction...
Liver transplantation may induce immune tolerance to factor VIII inhibitors but de novo development of...
Transmission of portal hypertension to the umbilical region via a recanalized left umbilical vein may...
BACKGROUND: Histories of kidney transplantation rarely mention a series reported by Gordon Murray of Toronto...
Patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) have excessive blood loss during surgery that requires blood...
The characteristic feature of the clinical sign described here is the demarcation between jaundiced and...
BACKGROUND: There have been no published data on use of the the newer immunosuppressants tacrolimus...
Background: To evaluate the effect of technical modifications to pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) on postoperative outcome, we...
Doppler ultrasound (DUS) is able to measure parameters of blood flow within vessels of transplanted...
Outcomes may differ after kidney transplantation compared to combined liver-kidney transplantation. In animal models, distinct...
BACKGROUND: The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) scores are important predictors...
The mechanism by which a liver transplantation might protect a simultaneous kidney transplant in a...
The severity of preoperative liver disease influences the outcome of liver transplantation, is commonly used...
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic disease that progresses to end-stage liver disease....
We reviewed the outcomes of pediatric en bloc renal transplantation at two Canadian centers in...
Renal allograft compartment syndrome (RACS) is an underreported and poorly described surgical complication of renal...
BACKGROUND: Selection criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) suitable for liver transplantation (LT) include...
The solid organ transplant rate in Canada grew from 49.5 per million population (PMP) in...
Corticosteroid therapy contributes significant toxicity to liver transplantation. The safety and efficacy of early steroid...
Pelvic kidneys have anomalous vascular supplies and collecting systems. Therefore, careful radiologic and functional evaluation...
The tendency for patients with severe liver disease to develop an umbilical hernia has been...
The descriptive analyses presented in this chapter provide a brief overview of transplant activity in...
The world-wide shortage of cadaveric kidneys for transplantation has resulted in a tendency to extend...
The pharmacokinetic (PK) interaction between tacrolimus (TAC) and sirolimus (SRL), similarly structured immunosuppressive compounds that...
Although sirolimus (SRL) binds the immunophilin FK506-binding protein-12 (FKBP-12) with greater avidity than tacrolimus (TAC),...
Fate of renal allografts that survive vascular rejection To measure the outcome for grafts that...
Neoral dosing is traditionally based on cyclosporine (CyA) trough levels (C(0)). Four-h area under the...
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of RAPA conversion in...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of pre-transplant recipient sensitization on the outcome of 1-haploidentical live...
A series of 32 recipients of liver, kidney, or pancreas transplants who were treated with...
PURPOSE: The consequences of prolonged wound drainage, defined as extravasation of more than 50 ml....
In the absence of a national kidney sharing system in Canada, virtually all the cadaver...
This report details a single center's experience with OKT3 induction immunosuppression for liver transplantation. One...
Right hemidiaphragm paralysis has been previously documented in patients after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and...
The urgency of dealing with impacted ampullary stones is underlined in the first case reported...
Hepatic artery thrombosis is a life-threatening complication after pediatric liver transplantation. We reviewed our experience...
Recurrent acute tonsillitis is a common problem. Despite this, there still remain many controversies regarding...
Diagnosis and treatment of hereditary angioneurotic oedema (HAO) is described in a family. C1 esterase...
Un demi-siècle s’est écoulé depuis les réflexions de Sir Theodore Fox au sujet de ses...
Half a century has passed since Sir Theodore Fox reflected upon his recently completed 40-year...
Catastrophes, natural or man-made, are very rare events in the life of hospitals in the...
Much of the journalism concerning H1N1 influenza virus continues the simplistic infectious disease model that...
Vitamin K, heparin and their antagonists remain the basis of coagulation therapies today, more than...
The story of ‘Le Petit William’ (Contes anglais, 1964) is based on Ferron’s experiences as...
I am grateful for the correction of our reference to Fox's sign and for Mr....
BACKGROUND: Public health and agricultural policy attempts to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy out of North...
It is 40 years since Sir Theodore Fox reflected on a lifetime in medical journalism....
If Canada tests widely for BSE, another case will turn up. Can we convince consumers...
The study of individual genes involved in drug metabolism goes back to the 1960s. The...
Legend has it that if you ask an Irishman for directions, he will suggest a...
The mechanism underlying the immunological advantage of hepatic allografts relative to other organs is incompletely...
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for...
Amputee rehabilitation may be limited by complexity of injury (e.g. bilateral arm amputation), associated injury...
The Royal College has been quietly assisting in the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s residency education system,...
OTTAWA – The Canadian Journal of Surgery has appointed Major Vivian McAlister, a Canadian Armed...
As the medical system is being rebuilt in Afghanistan, many programs that are familiar in...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kidneys procured for transplant after cardiac death (as opposed to...
As part of Schulich Medicine & Dentistry’s recently launched strategic plan, the School’s vision is...
It’s been so successful, organizers are sharing the idea with others through a paper published...
University of Western Ontario faculty members Brian Church, Ray Kao and Vivian McAlister have made...
When we think of “field research,” we picture scientists gathering samples and specimens from their...
Dr Meunier (anesthesiologist), Dr McAlister (surgeon) and the Canadian Forces Health Services surgical team at...
OTTAWA, Nov. 11, 2011 /CNW/ - Today the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of...
A decade after the 9-11 terrorist attacks and, closer to home, five years since the...
On September 18, 2011 second year Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry students helped run...
How will we remember 2010? Probably through these faces. This year, the Western News starts...
Dr. Vivian McAlister of the Department of Surgery in the Schulich School of Medicine &...
On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti...
If people are getting hurt, you need to be there to pick up the pieces,”...
Military surgeons are set to teach lessons learned in field hospitals to help doctors in...
Imagine if University Hospital had to increase its activity 10-fold immediately. The work of the...
London and the University of Western Ontario have a strong tradition of sending medical personnel...
Use of recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) reduces the need for blood transfusion in patients...
Dr. Allan Hawryluk was dreading the difficult hours ahead—his patient was on blood thinners, and...
A group of extraordinary Canadian physicians and surgeons traveled to Afghanistan. Extraordinary not just for...
The Canadian health services in Afghanistan range from first aid at the point of injury...
Modern doctors and their patients whose lives depend on therapies used routinely in cardiovascular and...
Mit dem Blut von Kühen und Ochsen will ein kanadischer Mediziner den weltweiten Mangel an...
As a result of a relaxation in the health environment under the government of Dalton...
Thanks to diseases like HIV, Hepatitis and variant CJD, the human blood supply for transfusion...
MR. TIMOTHY OLIVE: Mr. Speaker, I hereby give notice that on a future day I...
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Cartoon and news article regarding xenotransfusion research by Dr Vivian McAlister
Nowhere is the failure of the health care system, as currently managed, more evident than...
Living-donor liver transplantation combines the techniques of hepatic resection and transplantation. The principal difference between...
Gordon Murray ranks as Canada’s greatest surgical pioneer, to whom history has been most unkind....
CANADIAN MEDICAL OFFICERS IN THE ROYAL NAVY -- WORLD WAR II. Harry Stafford Morton. 112...
In the 21st century, military and civilian trauma surgeons bring similar solutions to similar problems,...
Case Report: A 43-year-old woman presented to the emergency room at University Hospital, London Health...
Background: The NATO hospital classification of hospitals describes an orderly transfer of patients with severe...