Latest - Transplantation

• Doctor's Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Lead to 5 Deaths: Officials Alaskan family physician sentenced to 34 months in prison, probation; Texas hospital CEO and seven docs settle kickback allegations; practice administrator sentenced for fraudulent prescriptions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 26, 2022
• mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness in the Immunocompromised This CDC report reveals that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are less effective in immunocompromised persons, supporting the recommendation for administration of a third dose of mRNA vaccine in this group.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, January 26, 2022
• 7 Ways Doctors Could Get Better Payment From Insurers Doctors often miss opportunities to get paid more when they sign insurance contracts to be in their networks. Experts tell how they can do better.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• 94% of Nurses Say There's Racism in Healthcare: Survey Nursing leaders encourage healthcare settings to confront individual, systemic racism to drive change.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• Lung Transplant Recipient Recovers From COVID for Second Time In July 2020, COVID patient Brian Kuhns underwent a double lung transplant, then a little-used procedure to battle the lung-damaging virus. Doctors told him if he got COVID again he would probably die.
  WebMD Health News, January 24, 2022
• The Other Ventricle With Left Ventricular Assist Devices Left ventricular assist devices are an integral part of management of advanced heart failure, but should we be paying more attention to right ventricular function in patients with LVADs?
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 24, 2022
• Chloride in Heart Failure: The Neglected Electrolyte What do we know about the role of chloride in the pathophysiology of heart failure? This review aims to elucidate the complex interplay of serum chloride and other electrolytes such as sodium in HF.
  JACC: Heart Failure, January 24, 2022
• Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022: Stress, Anxiety, and Anger Physicians had a rough year in 2021, with many feeling more burned out and stressed than they ever have before. Here's what more than 13,000 doctors had to say.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, January 21, 2022
• Treating NAFLD by Defeating Obesity: What Are the Best Options? Bariatric surgery is often the treatment of last resort, but considering it earlier may be just what patients with fatty liver disease need.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, January 21, 2022
• Physician Burnout, Depression Compounded by COVID: Survey Doctors were already struggling with burnout; the COVID-19 pandemic didn't help.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2022
• Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Cells for Type 1 Diabetes An ongoing first-in-human trial suggests that pancreatic cells grown from stem cells can be safely implanted into patients with type 1 diabetes, and in some cases, begin producing insulin.
  Reuters Health Information, January 18, 2022
• Variation in Heart-Transplant Rates Remains Despite Change in Allocation Policy Despite the recent change in heart-allocation policy, substantial center-level and regional variation in likelihood of transplant remains, according to a new analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, January 19, 2022
• Kidneys From Donors With AKI Often Unnecessarily Discarded Although acute kidney injury donor kidney procurement is on the rise, many AKI kidneys are discarded, despite evidence of success; researchers urge changes to the kidney donor scoring system.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2022
• Newly Published Study on Successful Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplant First published account of successful pig-to-human transplant in a brain-dead recipient opens the door to clinical trials in animal-to-human kidney donation.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2022
• Robotic Donor Hepatectomy: A Major Breakthrough in LDLT Learn more about this breakthrough technology and how it could benefit living donor liver transplantation.
  American Journal of Transplantation, January 20, 2022
• Patient Satisfaction: Is It Overrated? Physicians debate the usefulness of patient satisfaction surveys. Some consider them helpful, others feel they're worthless.
  Medscape Medical News, January 19, 2022
• Good Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney/Liver Transplant in Adults With HIV HIV-positive kidney- and liver-transplant patients can expect good long-term outcomes following the transplant, comparable with those of matched HIV-negative peers, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2022
• Diabetes Plus Low HDL-C Boost Peritonitis During Dialysis An observational, multicenter Chinese study showed that diabetes plus low HDL-C significantly links with a nearly doubled peritonitis rate in patients on peritoneal dialysis.
  First Look, January 18, 2022
• HCC Risk in Hepatitis C Stage-3 Fibrosis After SVR With DAAs Do patients with chronic hepatitis C and stage 3 fibrosis remain at risk of hepatocellular carcinoma even after sustained virological response with DAAs?
  Liver International, January 17, 2022
• Pandemic Weighing on Docs' Happiness Outside of Work: Survey Yet despite the struggles of caring for COVID-19 patients and managing their personal lives, many physicians make an effort to attend to their own well-being.
  Medscape Medical News, January 14, 2022