Latest - Transplantation

• Ambulatory BP Monitoring in Kidney Transplant Recipients Is 24-hour ambulatory monitoring a more accurate measurement of blood pressure status among kidney transplant recipients?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, October 2019
• Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Could behavioral treatments help prevent alcohol relapse among liver transplant candidates and recipients with alcohol-related liver disease?
  American Journal of Transplantation, October 2019
• Doctor Who Advocated 'Unethical' Care of Vegetative Patient Is Placed on Leave Newark Beth Israel acted after our report that its transplant program kept a patient alive to improve its metrics, while barely consulting his family.
  ProPublica, October 2019
• Doc-Senator: Don't Rely on DC to Reduce Physician Burden If physicians want to make changes in healthcare, they need to get more involved to make it happen, says Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2019
• Exporting Medical Expertise: Teach a Team to Transplant   How has teletechnology allowed US clinicians to expand their reach globally?
  Medscape Pediatrics, October 2019
• Fertility Preservation in the Pediatric Cancer Patient What are the latest strategies for fertility preservation in adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer?
  Current Opinion in Urology, October 2019
• 'Women on Dialysis Want to Get Pregnant'; Rates Higher Than Thought Women on dialysis are more likely to become pregnant than previously thought, but the rate of live births is low compared with the general population. Preconception counseling is advised.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2019
• Former GP Spurs Scientific Action Over Forced Transplants Dr Wendy Rogers won't rest until the forced harvesting of organs from Chinese prisoners ends forever.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2019
• 5-Year Survival High for HIV+ to HIV+ Kidney Transplant Study following kidney transplants from donors with HIV infection in South Africa to HIV positive recipients shows high rates of 5-year overall and graft survival.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2019
• Protecting the Heart Allograft With a Statin An intriguing study investigates whether a single dose of a statin administered to a brain-dead heart donor might improve outcomes for the transplant recipient.
  Circulation, October 2019
• AL Amyloidosis: Advances in Diagnostics and Treatment Recent advances have led to promising new diagnostic strategies and treatment options for AL amyloidosis.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, October 2019
• Could 'Liquid Biopsy' Detect Vascular Complications in Diabetes? Using an experimental assay to analyze just a few drops of blood appears to be predictive of vascular complications in diabetes; validation studies are next and a clinical trial is planned.
  Medscape Medical News, October 2019
• Alert FDA OKs Canagliflozin to Curtail Diabetic Kidney Disease Results of CREDENCE lead to FDA approval for canagliflozin to slow kidney disease progression and reduce the risk of heart failure hospitalization in adults with type 2 diabetes.
  FDA Approvals, September 2019
• Class Action Lawsuit Against ABIM Dismissed A federal court has said that ABIM has the right to require internists to recertify; any harm physicians suffer if they fail to maintain certification can't be blamed on the board.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2019
• The Week That Wasn't: Face Transplant Failure, Salmonella Chickens, Amazon Care Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, September 2019
• Alert FDA Further Expands Approval of HCV Combo Drug Mavyret Mavyret is the first 8-week treatment approved for all treatment-naive adult and certain pediatric patients with any hepatitis C virus genotype, both without cirrhosis and with compensated cirrhosis.
  FDA Approvals, September 2019
• Impact of US PHS Increased Risk Deceased Donor Designation In what ways have the US Public Health Service recommendations impacted the utilization rates for increased risk deceased donor organs?
  American Journal of Transplantation, September 2019
• Guideline Recommends Direct-acting Antivirals for HCV in People With Kidney Disease Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) should be screened for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and infected individuals should be treated with direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy, according to the updated 2018 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) clinical-practice guideline.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2019
• What Do You Do When Your Patient Starts to Cry? Dr Bishal Gyawali shares what he has learned about empathy and culture in medicine through his experiences of delivering difficult news to cancer patients around the world.
  Medscape Oncology, September 2019
• Hypertension Risk Increased in Kidney Donors Kidney donors face a higher risk of developing hypertension, according to findings from the ongoing WHOLE-Donor study.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2019