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...drug, defibrotide, works to reverse the symptoms of severe veno-occlusive disease (VOD) in transplant patients...
Defibrotide was given to 88 transplant patients with severe VOD and completely reversed VOD in 36 percent of these cases...
...drug also allowed 35 percent of transplant patients to survive for more than 100 days—a significant improvement over the less than 10 percent expected to survive for this period...
...evidence." Product labels contain no warnings, few guidelines for use, and potentially dangerous ingredients are often not listed. "Anyone who takes these pills is basically acting as a trial subject," says Dr. Chung Mau Lo of the University of Hong Kong Medical Center, who works in its liver transplant clinic...
...Adachi's patients was saved by a transplant. The other, a 60-year-old woman whose identity has not been released, died. That's when Adachi went to the press. In the resulting explosion of news coverage, he learned his cases weren't the first?three other Japanese deaths, all due to liver failure, had been linked to Chinese diet drugs since 2000. After the news broke, more than 600 other Japanese contacted the Health Ministry saying they had been sickened by the pills. Japan's government finally banned the drugs by name and enacted tighter controls in mid-July...