Latest - Transplantation

• Alert FDA Flags Cyber Threat With GE Healthcare Stations, Servers Hackers could remotely take control of the devices to silence alarms, generate false alarms, or interfere with functionality of patient monitors connected to these devices.
  News Alerts, January 24, 2020
• Fluoroquinolones, Cancer Drugs on New FDA Watch List Eight fluoroquinolones made the list, with potential signs of risk for mitral and aortic regurgitation.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2020
• Lower Hepatoma Risk With Earlier ALT Normalization During HBV Treatment Earlier normalization of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels during treatment of chronic hepatitis B is independently associated with a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), researchers from South Korea report.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2020
• Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Is 'Overstated,' Say Groups Radiology and nephrology groups call the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) with iodinated CT contrast media "overstated", stress need to distinguish between "contrast-induced" and "contrast-associated" AKI.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2020
• Moderate Alcohol Intake Linked to Lower Risk of Kidney Disease Those who consume up to 20 drinks per week are less likely to develop chronic kidney disease than never drinkers, but authors warn "potential benefits" of alcohol must be weighed against "harms."
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2020
• Improving Medication Adherence in Kidney Transplant Patients Could this novel intervention help improve immunosuppressive medication adherence among adult kidney transplant recipients?
  American Journal of Transplantation, January 20, 2020
• Too Old for New Heart? Germany Faces Dearth of Organ Donors Siegfried Richtsteig has been waiting in hospital for more than 130 days for a heart that would allow him to do the things he enjoyed most, like playing with his grandchildren, before a stroke damaged the organ beyond repair.
  Reuters Health Information, January 16, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Exercise Pill, Sex to Delay Menopause, Preserving Livers Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, January 17, 2020
• Alert Cardinal Health Surgical Gowns May Not Be Sterile, FDA Warns Facilities should immediately stop using Level 3 surgical gowns made by Cardinal Health, and PreSource procedural packs that contain the gowns, because of sterility concerns.
  News Alerts, January 17, 2020
• Have the Blockbuster Diabetes Drug Trials Been Biased? A recent article from Japan is the latest to point out imbalances in the study arms of the FDA-mandated cardiovascular outcomes trials of newer type 2 diabetes medications.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2020
• Kidneys From Donors With AKI Safe for Transplant, But Often Unused Findings from a new large study add to evidence of the safety of kidneys from donors who have had acute kidney injury, yet a review of allocation shows many such organs are unused, despite growing need.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2020
• Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Tied to Better Survival Than Kidney Transplant Alone in Type 1 Diabetes Compared with kidney transplantation alone, simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation was associated with an almost twofold lower 10-year mortality among type 1 diabetics, in a retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 09, 2020
• 'Excellent' Long-Term Outcomes for Recent Pediatric Liver-Transplant Recipients Liver transplant (LT) outcomes in children have improved substantially in the past three decades rendering earlier observed long-term outcomes irrelevant, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, January 09, 2020
• Drug Reduces Need for Transfusions in Some Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndromes Therapy every 3 weeks with the drug luspatercept dramatically reduced the need for blood transfusions in a subset of patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), according to results from the MEDALIST study reported in the Jan. 9 New England Journal of Medicine.
  Reuters Health Information, January 08, 2020
• Clopidogrel Appropriate for PCI in Liver Transplant Candidates In patients with decompensated cirrhosis undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), clopidogrel safely inhibits platelet aggregation, according to a small study of liver-transplant candidates.
  Reuters Health Information, January 07, 2020
• Chronic Heart Failure: Old Habits   Cardiologists call upon their colleagues to adapt newer therapies for heart failure patients, as recommended by the latest guidelines.
  Medscape TV, January 08, 2020
• 10 Ways Doctors Lose Patients and Respect on Social Media Physicians often enjoy using social media for personal or professional reasons, but a single ill-considered post can drive patients away and could even threaten a career.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2020
• HCV Retreatment With SOF/ELB/GZR +/- RBV After Relapse This study examined the safety and efficacy of an alternate retreatment regimen in HCV patients who do not respond to first-line therapy, including those with difficult-to-treat HCV GT3 infection.
  Liver International, January 07, 2020
• Kidney Disease Up as Prescribing Errors Exacerbate the Problem The study of two large health systems spanning 11 years shows "burgeoning" CKD prevalence, relatively low identification, limited use of nephroprotective agents, and overuse of drugs causing kidney damage.
  Medscape Medical News, January 06, 2020
• Need for Renal Replacement Therapy Rising, and Variable, Across EU The need for renal replacement therapy is highly variable across different European countries and is only partially explained by differences in the availability of national resources.
  Medscape Medical News, January 03, 2020