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In December 2019, the Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney Transplant Patients Act of 2019, also known as the Immuno Bill, was introduced in the House of Representatives. This legislation would extend Medicare coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients, which is currently limited to just 36 months. We need your help to make this a reality! The AST has made it easy to quickly contact your Members of Congress, so take action today.
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Thank you to everyone who contributed to the 2019 Donation Derby. We would like to congratulate our winner and top performers. Check out the results here.
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It has been an exciting past year at the AST. Check out our latest blog post to see our year in review with our meetings, research, public policy, and more!
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
Explore some of the many factors that can put a graft at risk, including CYP3A5*1 expression, declining adherence, and nephrotoxicity. In addition, review pharmacokinetic and clinical data that may be relevant to your practice and patients.
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Visit the AST Member Spotlight page to learn about Xian Li's current projects.
Interested in being featured in the AST Member Spotlight? Please contact rpaulin@myast.org for more information.
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The AST sponsors a variety of Achievement Awards in recognition of AST members' achievements and contributions to the field of transplantation. The AST encourages members to nominate deserving candidates for consideration. Make your nominations by January 31.
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Over the long-term, graft survival may be impacted by factors such as declining adherence, which may be affected by complex dosing regimens and neurotoxicities. Studies show a direct correlation between rejection losses and nonadherence, which is also proven to increase over time. Review 2-year published data and see the results achieved at 2 years in de novo kidney transplant patients.
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Join us for an interactive discussion on organ allocation at the 2020 Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEoT) meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Early bird registration is open until January 16, 2020
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The Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST) designation application is open to all members who meet the eligibility criteria. Instructions for the application can be found here. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2020. Don't miss out on joining this prestigious program and be recognized for your contributions to transplantation.
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The Transplant Nephrology Core Curriculum (TNCC) is an online program jointly provided by the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. The TNCC focuses on key information needed to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification examinations.
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Transplant professionals have increasing demands on their time. Finding time in one’s day to attend conferences or to read journals is challenging. Transplant in 10 is intended to provide transplant professionals with short, easily accessible videos on key and updated topics in 10 minutes.
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American Association of the Study of Liver Disease
Machine learning utilizes artificial intelligence to generate predictive models efficiently and more effectively than conventional methods through detection of hidden patterns within large data sets. With this in mind, there are several areas within hepatology where these methods can be applied.
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Patients with liver disease acquire complex changes in their hemostatic system, which results in a fragile rebalanced status. The status of the fibrinolytic system is controversial, as is the role of fibrinolytic dysfunction in bleeding and thrombosis in patients with cirrhosis. Here, we aimed to determine fibrinolytic status and its relationship with outcome in acutely ill patients with cirrhosis.
Science Direct
Since 2005, the United States donor heart allocation system assigned patients awaiting transplantation with measurably distinct outcomes into a single high urgency priority status. In this old system, patients in cardiogenic shock as well as ambulatory stable patients with complications of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) were allocated to a similar status of highest urgency and competed equally for donor organs.
Wiley Online Library
Through multiple mechanisms, regulatory B cells (Breg) have been shown to play an important role in the development of allograft tolerance. However, a careful understanding of the role of antigen‐specificity in Breg‐mediated allograft tolerance has remained elusive. In experimental models of islet and cardiac transplantation, it has been established that Bregs can be induced in vivo by anti‐CD45RB ± anti‐TIM1antibody treatment, resulting in prolonged, Breg‐dependent allograft tolerance.
Wiley Online Library
Although expedited placement could ameliorate stagnant kidney utilization, precisely identifying difficult‐to‐place organs is crucial to mitigate potential harms associated with this policy. Existing algorithms have only leveraged structured data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; however, detailed, free text case information about a donor exists. No known research exists about the utility of these data. We developed a model to predict the probability of delay or discard for adult deceased kidney donors between 2010 and 2018, leveraging donor free text data.
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