Sclerosing cholangitis is a liver disease characterized by inflammation and scarring of bile ducts within and outside the liver resulting in their constriction.
Tacrolimus vs cyclosporine is associated with more favorable patient and graft survival rates in liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis.
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Organ transplants are miracles of modern medicine that save tens of thousands of lives in Europe every year. But the new life granted to transplant patients comes at a cost: they must spend the rest of their lives taking drugs to suppress their immune systems, which would otherwise attack the foreign organs. The surgery itself is also difficult and stressful: seventy years after the first successful organ transplant, it remains one of the most complicated operations that surgeons carry out.
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