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AST
The deadline for discounted hotel prices is April 7. For more information, check out the ATC housing page.
AST
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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"Reprogramming the Local Lymph Node Microenvironment Promotes Tolerance that Is Systemic and Antigen Specific"
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April 11, 2017 | 1 p.m EST | Online activity
More information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
"Effect of Replacing Race With Apolipoprotein L1 Genotype in Calculation of Kidney Donor Risk Index"
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April 21, 2017 | 4 p.m EST | Online activity
More information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
"Antigen-Specificity of T cell Infiltrates in Biopsies with T cell Mediated Rejection and BK Polyomavirus Viremia: Analysis by Next Generation Sequencing"
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May 24, 2017 | 1 p.m EST | Online activity
More information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
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Sanofi Genzyme provides benefit to patients by:
• Partnering with the community to increase access to transplant for appropriate patients
• Supporting patient advocacy and education
• Organ donation awareness initiatives
• Supporting clinicians to improve patient care
We define our success by the success of transplant patients
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AST
Voting for the AST Board of Directors and proposed bylaw amendments is open.
Voting will take place completely online this year. If you have not received an email to vote, please check your spam folder. To ensure delivery, please add elections@vote-now.com to your approved senders list. For more information, please click here.
AST
We will be holding our first annual Transplant Patient Summit in Washington, DC. on October 23-24, 2017. The deadline for patients to apply is Monday, April 3.
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AST
In memory of former AST President and TIRN co-founder Daniel R. Salomon, the AST has partnered with the Salomon family to create a memorial fund entitled the Frontiers in Transplantation Endowment (FITE), designed to promote transformative science.
AST
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a public workshop regarding new developments and scientific issues related to antibody mediated rejection (AMR) in kidney transplantation.
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University of Pittsburgh
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute is accepting nominations for the 2018 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology, awarded annually to a national or international leader in the field of organ transplantation and immunology.
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AST
In partnership with the AST, the ASTS, and the Arnold Foundation, we are conducting a survey about transplant quality/regulatory metrics. Please complete our brief survey by April 15, 2017 to help ensure that most appropriate metrics are used to regulate transplant centers. Responses are anonymous. Results will help us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of measures currently used for CMS/SRTR quality regulation and inform the design of alternative metrics.
Take the survey.
Thank you for your consideration,
Lauren Nicholas and Dorry Segev
ATC
The American Transplant Congress (ATC) is coming! Scheduled for April 29- May 3 in Chicago Illinois, ATC is the foremost educational event in the field of basic and clinical transplantation.
Reserve your space and review the preliminary program.
Annals of Internal Medicine
Use of interferon and ribavirin to treat chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in kidney transplant recipients is limited because of the risk for allograft rejection and poor tolerability. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the interferon- and ribavirin-free regimen ledipasvir–sofosbuvir in kidney transplant recipients with chronic genotype 1 or 4 HCV infection.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs) are at increased risk of developing and dying from cancer. However, controversies exist around cancer screening in this population owing to reduced life expectancy and competing causes of death. This systematic review assesses the availability, quality and consistency of cancer screening recommendations in clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). We systematically searched bibliographic databases and gray literature to identify CPGs and assessed their quality using AGREE II.
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Transplantation
The cardiac allocation system in France is currently based on urgency and geography. Medical urgency is defined by therapies without considering objective patient mortality risk factors. This study aimed to develop a waitlist mortality risk score from commonly available candidate variables. The study included all patients, aged 16 years or older, registered on the national registry CRISTAL for first single-organ heart transplantation between January 2010 and December 2014.
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Liver Transplantation
Peri-operative terlipressin (Tp) during living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has been shown to reduce intra-operative portal pressures and improve renal function. Its role and safety profile has never been evaluated in a double-blinded RCT. The aim of this study was to evaluate the haemodynamic effects, clinical benefits and safety of peri-operative terlipressin infusion in adult LDLT.
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Nature News
Ever since the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex, scientific and clinical understanding in the field of transplantation has been advanced through genetic and genomic studies. Candidate-gene approaches and recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have enabled a deeper understanding of the complex interplay of the donor–recipient interactions that lead to transplant tolerance or rejection.
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