Latest - Transplantation

• Mini-Biographies Help Clinicians Connect With Patients The "My Life, My Story" project has writers crafting a story of a patient's life to be included in the EHR. The idea came from a resident doing a rotation at a Wisconsin VA hospital in 2012.
  Kaiser Health News, June 2019
• Initial Volume Overload Tied to Death in Peritoneal Dialysis Largest study to date finds volume overload at start of peritoneal dialysis tied to increased death. Men and those with diabetes had higher levels of volume overload; dialysis practices vary around the world.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• Alert Fecal Transplants May Transmit Drug-Resistant Infections: FDA The FDA warns about the potential risk for serious or life-threatening infections with the use of investigational fecal microbiota for transplant.
  News Alerts, June 2019
• Muscle-Pump Activator Cuts Hospital Time, Edema After Kidney Transplantation Switching standard compression stockings for muscle-pump activators (MPAs) on a kidney-transplantation patient's legs cuts hospitalization time and improves short-term outcomes, a new randomized trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2019
• 'Liquid Biopsy' for Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease on the Horizon A blood test could replace the need for liver biopsy in the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in children within five years, European researchers predict.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2019
• Growing Doubt, Uncertainty Over PDE5i Use in Left Heart Disease Off-label preoperative use was linked to an increase in severe early right heart failure after LVAD implantation, even after propensity matching for 22 variables.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• Eculizumab Changed the Course of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome The approval of the monoclonal antibody eculizumab for treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome led to significant improvements in outcomes, according to a study of French patients presented June 3 at American Transplant Congress 2019 in Boston.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2019
• Post-Approval Study Finds No Surprises With Argus II Retinal Implant Post-approval follow-up of the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System shows safety and visual function outcomes similar to those in previous trials, according to a company-funded study.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2019
• ADA 2019'Like Watching a Car Crash in Slow Motion': New RISE Data New RISE findings inform child/adult differences in trajectory of type 2 diabetes; disease is much, much more aggressive in youth. Experts stumped as to what to do in kids both to prevent and treat it.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• ADA 2019Game Changer: Antibody First to Delay Type 1 Diabetes Onset in TrialNet Teplizumab, an investigational anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, delayed the onset of type 1 diabetes for 2 years in patients in the TrialNet study. Experts urge caution but admit result is "terrific."
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• Medical Assistance in Dying and Organ Donation Should Be Separate Decisions The decisions to seek medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and to offer organs and tissues for transplant should be separate, according to guidelines proposed by Canadian organizations.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2019
• Is Renal Infarction Linked to Cardiac Amyloidosis? First study of its kind finds renal infarction in cardiac amyloidosis may be more common than previously thought, especially in patients with acute kidney injury, but an expert questions the results.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• Too Many CKD Patients Get Central Catheters Despite Warnings Almost one quarter of patients with advanced CKD receive a peripherally inserted central catheter while in hospital, despite their relative contraindication, in order to preserve future vascular access.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• ADA Standards Updated With Renal Guidance Based on CREDENCE New renal management guidance is based on data from the recently reported Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy (CREDENCE) trial.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• ASCO 2019'Surgery Is Never Elegant When Women Are in the OR' Monica Morrow, MD, is one of the leaders in American breast cancer surgery, but her road to the top has had some bumps and bruises.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2019
• Most Face Transplant Patients Continue to Report Better Quality of Life Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston say most of the face transplant patients they have been following for about five years are continuing to show improvement in quality of life.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2019
• Sirolimus Linked to Lower Malignancy After Heart Transplant A single-center cohort analysis demonstrates that converting heart transplant patients from standard immunosuppression to regimens that use sirolimus is associated with improved 10-year survival.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2019
• New Markers Protect in Diabetic Kidney Disease; Hope for Therapy Study identifies proteins that protect against development of diabetic kidney disease with potential as biomarkers and/or for development of new therapeutics.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2019
• Allogeneic HCT Provides No Benefit for Hypodiploid ALL Is HCT still indicated for pediatric patients with hypodiploid ALL? New reports call this practice into question.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology, May 2019
• Heart (and Kidneys) Feature in Diabetes Trials in San Francisco Sessions to cover highly anticipated novel clinical trial data in type 2 diabetes, as well as new analyses on renal and cardiovascular outcomes from previously reported studies, plus more on treatment and prevention.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2019