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The Pediatric Community of Practice (PCOP) announced a new program, which will provide a one-year membership to the AST and PCOP. This program is designed to help medical trainees and allied health professionals get more exposure to the field of pediatric transplantation and provide a structure for professional networking within the pediatric transplant community. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2018.
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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 one year free membership
- $500 AST bucks
- $250 AST bucks
Spread the word! Recommend colleagues for membership through the 2017-2018 year and get your chance to win! Visit the Member-Get-A-Member page for program details and other resources.
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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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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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.
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).
Learn more about the 26th Annual UNOS Transplant Management Forum.
Hepatology
Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is a metabolically active organ, associated with higher risk of malignancies. We evaluated whether VAT is associated with the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients presenting with cirrhosis as well as HCC recurrence after liver transplantation (LT). Patients with cirrhosis (n = 678; 457 male) who were assessed for LT (289 with HCC) were evaluated for body composition analysis.
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Transplantation
Velma Scantlebury, MD, says, "I had an assignment at a young age to write an essay on “My Career”. Even at age 10 years, I wanted to help others, learn about what makes you sick, but most importantly, I wanted to be my own boss. I saw the only doctor I interacted with at that time, my pediatrician, and he worked for himself. That’s what I wanted to do."
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Transplantation
The incidence and prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has increased in many developed countries over the last decade, predominantly due to infection with genotype 3 (G3) HEV. Infection with HEV G3 is important in transplant recipients because it can persist in immunosuppressed individuals, leading, if untreated, to the development of chronic hepatitis and significant liver fibrosis.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Kidney Allocation System (KAS) was enacted in 2014 to improve graft utility, while facilitating transplantation of highly-sensitized patients and preserving pediatric access to high-quality kidneys. Central to this system is the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), a metric intended to predict transplant outcomes based on donor characteristics but derived using only adult donors.
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American Journal of Transplantation
An increased risk of ESRD has been reported for living kidney donors, and appears to be higher for those donating to a relative. The reasons for this are not clear. One possibility is that ESRD is due to the nephrectomy-related reduction in GFR, followed by an age-related decline that may be more rapid in related donors.
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