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On Feb. 9, 2018, the American Society of Transplantation proudly presented the AST Innovation Award to the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto for their work in Ex Vivo Organ Perfusion. Dr. Shaf Keshavjee, Director of the Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Surgeon in Chief, and Professor for the Division of Thoracic Surgery, accepted the award during the AST Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEoT) meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The nomination window for the 2018-2019 COP EC election is now open! For more information, click here.
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Check out AST's archived webinars and journal clubs, and watch educational content when it's convenient for you. The AST also offers a variety of resources for different transplant specialties, all available on our easy-to-search website.
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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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Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is a great way to expand your transplant knowledge. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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Feb. 21, 2018 2 p.m. Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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March 21, 2018 2 p.m. Online Activity
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"Regulatory T Cell Migration Is Dependent on Glucokinase-Mediated Glycolysis"
February 27, 2018 | 11 a.m. ET | Online activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
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Invite your colleagues to join AST! We’re making it easier for you to refer new members with our easy referral form. You can quickly send a personal and professional email message to refer your colleagues by clicking here.
For every new member successfully recruited, your name will be entered to win one of the following great prizes:
- iPad and free membership for 2018
- $500 AST bucks
- $250 AST bucks
Spread the word! Recommend colleagues for membership by ATC 2018 and get your chance to win! Visit the Member-Get-A-Member page for program details and other resources.
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If you haven't already, please don't forget to renew your membership and reaffirm your commitment to the AST for 2018. Renewal notices have been both mailed and emailed to members. If you wish to continue to receive your membership benefits in the AST, including discounted meeting registrations, free webinars, and a reduced subscription to the American Journal of Transplantation, please remit your dues immediately. You may log in anytime to your AST member account to view, print, and pay for your invoice. If you need assistance or have further questions, please contact our Membership Services Team.
OPTN/UNOS
There are fifteen proposals that are open for public comment through March 23, 2018. For information on these proposals, click here.
OPTN/UNOS also has updates from its Liver Committee including a HCC policy change and the implementation of NLRB and liver distribution enhancements. For more information, click here.
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is accepting nominations for the 2019 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, awarded annually to a national or international leader in the field of organ transplantation and immunology.
The prize consists of a crystal award, an honorarium of $10,000, and travel expenses to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the spring of 2019 to formally receive the award and to present the Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology lecture. The winner will also participate in related activities and meet informally with faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students.
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Transplantation
Policymakers are deliberating reforms to reduce geographic disparity in liver allocation. Public comments and the United Network for Organ Sharing Liver and Intestinal Committee have expressed interest in refining the neighborhoods approach. Share 35 and Share 15 policies affect geographic disparity.
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Transplant International
More than thirty-five facial allograft transplantations (FAT) have been reported worldwide since the pioneering case performed in France in the year 2005. FAT has received tremendous interest by the medical field and the general public while gaining strong support from multiple disciplines as a solution for reconstructing complex facial defects not amenable/responsive to conventional methods.
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Pediatric Transplantation
Non-adherence to immunosuppressant medications is an important risk factor for graft dysfunction. To evaluate the effectiveness of adherence-enhancing interventions, we reviewed adherence intervention studies in solid organ transplant recipients (all ages). Using the following databases: PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, and ScienceDirect, we identified 41 eligible studies. Only three non-randomized trials showed a possible positive effect on objective indicators of transplant outcomes (such as rejection, liver enzyme levels, kidney function).
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Transplant Infectious Disease
Data are limited on clinical outcomes in patients awaiting heart transplant (HT) with total artificial heart (TAH) infections. We retrospectively reviewed all TAH recipients at our center. TAH infection was classified as definite if a microorganism was isolated in cultures from the exit site or deep tissues around the TAH; as probable in patients without surgical or microbiologic evidence of infection but no other explanation for persistent or recurrent bloodstream infection (BSI); or possible in patients with clinical suspicion and radiographic findings suggestive of TAH infection, but without surgical intervention or microbiologic evidence.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The kidney sessions of the 2017 Banff Conference focused on 2 areas: clinical implications of inflammation in areas of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (i-IFTA) and its relationship to T cell–mediated rejection (TCMR), and the continued evolution of molecular diagnostics, particularly in the diagnosis of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR). In confirmation of previous studies, it was independently demonstrated by 2 groups that i-IFTA is associated with reduced graft survival.
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