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We recently featured the story of young Lindsey Duquette on AST's patient-focused initiative, Power2Save. Check out this incredible story and share it with your network.
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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.
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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
AST members now have access to Clinical Transplantation (CT). Don’t miss this exciting addition to our member benefits!
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AST
Get to know your colleague and visit the AST Member Spotlight page to find out why Dr. Jonathan Hand values his early-career involvement with AST and what he's working on now.
Interested in being featured in the AST Member Spotlight? Please contact rpaulin@myast.org for more information.
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The National Institutes of Health will get a $2 billion funding boost over the next five months, under a bipartisan spending deal reached late Sunday night in Congress. The agreement marks a sharp rejection of President Trump’s proposal to cut $1.2 billion from the medical research agency in the current fiscal year.
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The American Journal of Transplantation
Organ donation should neither enrich donors nor impose financial burdens on them. We described the scope of health care required for all living kidney donors, reflecting contemporary understanding of long-term donor health outcomes; proposed an approach to identify donor health conditions that should be covered within the framework of financial neutrality; and proposed strategies to pay for this care.
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The American Journal of Transplantation
Current diagnostic criteria for primary nonfunction (PNF) of liver grafts are based on clinical experience rather than statistical methods. A retrospective, single-center study was conducted of all adults (n = 1286) who underwent primary liver transplant (LT) 2000–2008 in our center. Laboratory variables during the first post LT week were analyzed. Forty-two patients (3.7 percent) had 2-week graft failure.
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The American Journal of Transplantation
The impact of allograft injury time of onset on the risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) remains unknown. We hypothesized that episodes of late-onset (≥6 months) allograft injury would produce an augmented CXCR3/ligand immune response, leading to increased CLAD. In a retrospective single-center study, 1894 transbronchial biopsy samples from 441 lung transplant recipients were reviewed for the presence of acute rejection (AR), lymphocytic bronchiolitis (LB), diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), and organizing pneumonia (OP).
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Liver Transplantation
Share 35 was implemented to provide improved access to organs for patients with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores ≥ 35. However, little is known about the impact of Share 35 on organ offer acceptance rates. We evaluated all liver offers to adult patients who were ultimately transplanted between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2015. The analyses focused on patients ranked in the top 5 positions of a given match run and used multilevel mixed-effects models, clustering on individual wait-list candidate and transplant center.
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Liver Transplantation
Transplant-related survival benefit is calculated as the difference between life expectancy with transplantation and life expectancy without transplantation. Determining eligibility and prioritization for liver transplantation based on the highest survival benefit is a superior strategy to prioritization based on the highest urgency (ie, the highest wait-list mortality) or the highest utility (ie, the highest posttransplant survival) because prioritization based on the highest survival benefit maximizes the overall life expectancy of all patients in need of liver transplantation.
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