Latest - Transplantation

• Alert FDA: Recall of Medtronic HVAD Implant Kits Is Class 1 Some of the kits have been associated with a controller defect that could prevent the pump from promptly starting or restarting; doctors and patients have already been notified.
  News Alerts, March 01, 2021
• Hypothermic Machine Perfusion Prevents Complications in Donated-After-Cardiac-Death Liver Allografts When preparing livers for transplant, hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion slashes the odds of nonanastomotic biliary stricture by two thirds, according to a European study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 24, 2021
• TCT 2021 Steroid Complications in GVHD Common, Boost Costs of Care Among 689 patients with a diagnosis of graft versus host disease following HSCT who received steroids, 97% had at least one steroid-related complication, according to a retrospective database analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2021
• Organ Transplant Patient Dies After Receiving COVID-Infected Lungs Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of COVID-19 in the US in which the virus was transmitted via an organ transplant.
  Kaiser Health News, February 22, 2021
• What Is #NephMadness and How Do I Play? Forget basketball -- March 1 marks #NephMadness. The annual battle of the brackets is a fun way to learn about hot nephrology topics. Timothy Yau, MD, from the AJKD blog gives the inside scoop.
  Medscape Nephrology, February 22, 2021
• How to Spot a Fake N95 Counterfeit N95 airborne particle-filtering face masks are on the rise, but recognizing phonies can be easy using a few simple steps.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• 1 in 5 Diabetes Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 Die in 28 Days Around a fifth of patients with diabetes hospitalized with COVID-19 infection will die within a month, although around half will be discharged, suggests an ongoing French study.
  Medscape Medical News, February 18, 2021
• Immunosuppressive Medicines Do Not Worsen COVID-19 Outcomes Medications that suppress the immune system, necessary for many chronic diseases, do not worsen outcomes of COVID-19 cases, new data suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, February 15, 2021
• Dialysis Patients Should Be Moved Up Vaccine Priority List Patients on dialysis are on par with long-term care residents in terms of risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 death, and should therefore be highest priority for vaccination, say nephrologists.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2021
• Steroids Can Be Safely Ditched in Low-Risk Kidney Transplants 'Going forward...[kidney] transplant centers using steroids should justify why they are using [them], given that there is no evidence of improved outcomes and steroids have adverse effects,' says an expert.
  Medscape Medical News, February 12, 2021
• CKD is a Key Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Emerging evidence that CKD is a strong risk factor for severe COVID-19 is a call to action to improve outcomes for these patients.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, February 12, 2021
• As Variants Spread, Top Experts Lay Out Best Protection Plan Six leaders in infection prevention weigh in on the measures that will make the difference at this critical point in the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, February 11, 2021
• The Unique Mental Stressors of COVID-19's Second Wave   Experts discuss how this winter's lethal surge bears both similar and different mental stressors to that which preceded it.
  Medscape Psychiatry, February 08, 2021
• Heart Transplant Mortality Worse for Younger Black Adults The starkest disparities in heart transplant survival between Black patients and their non-Black counterparts in the U.S. may occur among younger adults, and within the first year posttransplant, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 05, 2021
• Superspreader Sunday: The Super Bowl With COVID Variants Afoot After almost every major holiday in 2020, the United States had an increase in COVID-19 cases and experts are concerned this will happen again as Americans get ready for Super Bowl Sunday.
  Medscape Medical News, February 05, 2021
• Springboard Needed to Boost Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplants Race, social factors are significantly linked to lower likelihood of receiving a kidney transplant from a living donor.
  Medscape Medical News, February 05, 2021
• Early Start: Strategies to Improve Outcomes in IPF: Journey Through Lung Transplant   A retired family physician shares his personal experience from IPF patient to lung transplant recipient and the challenges he has faced in rebuilding his health.
  Medscape TV, February 04, 2021
• Lung Transplant Recipients at Heightened Risk of Colorectal Polyps Lung transplant patients are at increased risk of developing colorectal adenomas in the first few years after transplantation, possibly warranting enhanced surveillance for colorectal cancer, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 03, 2021
• Public Attitudes Towards Imminent Death Donation in the U.S. How does the public feel about procuring organs for transplantation from an imminently dying patient? A new survey provides some insight.
  American Journal of Transplantation, February 04, 2021
• Cardiac Activity Not Uncommon After Lifesaving Measures Stop ECG and blood pressure monitoring identified resumption of cardiac activity in 14% of patients, all occurring in the 5 minutes after pulselessness.
  Medscape Medical News, February 03, 2021