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AST
Senator Cassidy introduced the Veterans Increased Choice for Transplanted Organs and Recovery (VICTOR) Act on Wednesday. The AST was mentioned as a supporter on Capitol Hill and included in the Senator's press release.
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AST
AST offers resources for providers to work with pediatric patients and their caregivers to ensure a beneficial transition to adult care. Readiness assessments and action plans were developed for four stages, beginning at early adolescence.
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AST
As an AST member, access to free or discounted educational resources are included in your membership. These diverse educational resources offer materials relevant to the transplant professional in every stage of their career – from basic trainee lessons to webinars on specialized topics.
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AST
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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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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UNOS
When: April 24-26, 2018
Where: Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin, TX | Rate: $229*
*Be sure to book your room early as they sell out fast for this meeting.
Registration fee: $750 before March 21 | $850 through April 24
Click here to see who’s talking at the 2018 UNOS Transplant Management Forum (TMF).
American Journal of Transplantation
Kidney transplant is the optimal therapy for end stage renal disease, prolonging survival and reducing healthcare spending. Prior economic analyses of kidney transplant using Markov models, have generally assumed compatible, low risk, donors. The economic implications of using deceased donor kidneys with high kidney donor profile index (KPDI) scores, ABO incompatible or HLA incompatible living donors has not been assessed.
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Transplant International
Mortality in the general population and in patients on chronic hemodialysis is significantly higher in winter than summer. It is unknown whether such a seasonal difference exists for mortality or graft failure among kidney transplant recipients. We analyzed United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data to assess whether the annual distribution of deaths and graft failures differed significantly from expected.
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Liver Transplantation
Advanced donor age has been identified as a risk factor when combined with donor warm ischemia time (WIT), eg, in donation after circulatory death (DCD). In several countries, DCD livers older than 60 years are not considered suitable due to concerns related to poor graft function and development of ischemic cholangiopathy. In this study, we evaluate outcomes after DCD liver transplantation using grafts from donors older than 60 years.
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Clinical Transplantation
Single-center retrospective analysis of data of 428 patients, who underwent liver transplantation in period between January, 2009 and December, 2014. Univariate and multivariate analysis were used to study the risk factors of early reoperation and its impact on graft survival.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The impact of pre-donation obesity on long-term outcomes of living kidney donors remains controversial. Published guidelines offer varying recommendations regarding BMI (kg/m2) thresholds for donor acceptance. We examined temporal and center-level variation in BMI of accepted donors across US transplant centers.
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