Monitoring and maintaining a higher tacrolimus trough level in the first month after transplantation is essential to avoid acute rejection, according to investigators. Maintaining a tacrolimus trough ...

Kidney transplant recipients typically take the immunosuppressant drug tacrolimus to prevent rejection, and some patients experience large fluctuations in blood levels of tacrolimus even when the dose ...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry reported Abbott's (NYSE: ABT) ARCHITECT® Tacrolimus assay provides accurate and consistent ...

Colombo, June 10 (Daily Mirror) - Tacrolimus level tests, which are essential for liver and kidney transplant patients, have been indefinitely delayed in government hospitals due to a shortage of the ...

Previous reports have been published of increased cutaneous absorption of tacrolimus in children with concomitant conditions associated with a skin-barrier dysfunction. Our case is the first report on ...

Scientists have found that generic formulations of tacrolimus, a drug used post-transplant to lower the risk of organ rejection, are just as good as the name-brand version. A University of Cincinnati ...

HOUSTON -- Rate of successful kidney transplantation was similar in adults, ages 65 and older, who received a lower dose immunosuppression regimen, according to the OPTIMIZE trial. For the study, 379 ...