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Bloomberg
AST has partnered with Bloomberg, Optum, and Donate Life America in a video entitled Day Zero, which is a video that tells the story of a 2-time liver transplant recipient. Be sure to check it out here.
AST
Starting next week, AST members will have access to Clinical Transplantation (CT). Don’t miss this exciting addition to our member benefits!
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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
The ATC17 app serves as your all-in-one event guide for putting everything you need to know onto your mobile device.
Click here to learn more about the ATC17 mobile app
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"
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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"
AST
May 24, 2017 | 1 p.m EST | Online activity
More information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
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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.
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.
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
In 2005, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Board of Directors commissioned the development of the first International Listing Criteria for Heart Transplantation, published in 2006.1 Subsequently, the ISHLT commissioned a focused update to concentrate on evolving areas of importance, not fully addressed previously. These include congenital heart disease (CHD), restrictive cardiomyopathy, and infectious diseases. In addition, we undertook a review of all 2006 guidelines to update those where new information was evident or evolution in practice demanded significant changes.
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Transplantation
A measure of donor liver quality, the donor liver index, was developed and validated for the UK population of transplant recipients. Unlike previously proposed measures, this index is only based on variables that are available at the point of retrieval, and so does not include cold ischemic time.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Despite the severe shortage of donor cardiac allografts, the general belief in worse outcomes with donors from prolonged distances has resulted in many centers greatly limiting the acceptable geographic distance of acceptable donors. However, with improvements in allograft preservation, it is likely that distance may be extended without compromising graft integrity. We hypothesized that recipients of appropriately selected allografts from greater distances would have equivalent long-term survival compared to recipients from closer geographic regions.
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The American Journal of Transplantation
Graft failure represents a leading cause of mortality after organ transplantation. Acute late-onset graft failure has not been widely reported. The authors describe the demographics, CT imaging–pathology findings, and treatment of patients presenting with the latter. A retrospective review was performed of lung transplant recipients at two large-volume centers. Acute late-onset graft failure was defined as sudden onset of bilateral infiltrates with an oxygenation index greater than 200 without identifiable cause or concurrent extrapulmonary organ failure.
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The American Journal of Transplantation
Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation (LT) reportedly yields inferior survival and increased complication rates compared with donation after brain death (DBD). We compare 100 consecutive DCD LT using a protocol that includes thrombolytic therapy (late DCD group) to an historical DCD group (early DCD group n = 38) and a cohort of DBD LT recipients (DBD group n = 435). Late DCD LT recipients had better 1- and 3-year graft survival rates than early DCD LT recipients (92 percent vs. 76.3 percent, p = 0.03 and 91.4 percent vs. 73.7 percent, p = 0.01).
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