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AST
A special tribute to Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, will be held at the 2017 American Transplant Congress. Please join us Saturday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m. CT in the Airie Crown Theater at McCormick Place - Lakeside to honor his distinguished career and celebrate his pioneering contributions to the field.
AST
Invite your colleagues to join AST now for 2017! All new members will be eligible to take advantage of AST member benefits.
For every new member successfully recruited by April 20th, 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
For more details, please visit the Pay it Forward page on the web site.
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Sanofi Genzyme supports physicians in solid organ transplant through:
• Ongoing support of major professional societies
• Medical education
• Fellows conferences
• Professional education for community physician groups
We are investing in the present and future of transplantation
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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
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.
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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.
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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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"Effect of Replacing Race With Apolipoprotein L1 Genotype in Calculation of Kidney Donor Risk Index"
AST
April 21, 2017 | 4 p.m EST | Online activity
More information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
"The Role of Antiviral Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review"
AST
May 9, 2017 | 2 p.m EST | Online activity
For 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
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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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.
American Journal of Transplantation
Later this year, nine states will require surgeons to report information on the number of postoperative visits they provide their patients. In this issue of “The AJT Report,” we take a look at how this change in reporting may impact transplantation. Also this issue, we review the results of liver transplantation in recipients with the hepatitis C virus.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The prevention, diagnosis, and management of infectious disease in transplantation are major contributors to improved outcomes in organ transplantation. The risk of serious infections in organ recipients is determined by interactions between the patient's epidemiological exposures and net state of immune suppression. In organ recipients, there is a significant incidence of drug toxicity and a propensity for drug interactions with immunosuppressive agents used to maintain graft function.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Thirteen percent of individuals of African ancestry express two variant copies of the gene encoding apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) that has been associated with an increased risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the general population. Limited studies suggest that the survival of transplanted kidneys from donors expressing two APOL1 risk alleles is inferior to that of kidneys from donors with zero or one risk allele.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Frailty is associated with inferior survival and increased resource requirements among kidney transplant candidates, but assessments are time-intensive and costly and require direct patient interaction. Waitlist hospitalization may be a proxy for patient fitness and could help those at risk of poor outcomes. We examined United States Renal Data System data from 51 111 adult end-stage renal disease patients with continuous Medicare coverage who were waitlisted for transplant from January 2000 to December 2011.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Hospital readmissions are costly and have become a focus for quality improvement. We aimed to determine risk factors, rate, and outcomes of readmissions within the first year after lung transplantation and the potential impact on patient survival.
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