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AST
In addition to ongoing communication with CMS and its proposed revisions to the Interpretative Guidelines, The AST and ASTS were also asked to share their thoughts regarding a CMS memo on solid organ transplant program thresholds that was released on Friday, May 13, The memo outlines survey and certification guidance to interpret to the regulation related to the outcomes threshold for one year post-transplant patient deaths or graft failures.
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AST
Recommend AST membership to your colleagues by May 31 so they can take advantage of the benefits AST membership has to offer! For each member you recommend, your name will be entered to win an iPad, free membership for 2017, or AST bucks. Winners will be announced during the AST Town Hall annual business meeting during ATC. We hope to see you there!
Visit www.myast.org/payitforward for rules and details.
Contact info@myAST.org with any questions.
AST
AST members: be sure to cast your vote for your next board of directors. Results will be announced at the AST Town Hall during ATC on Monday, June 13. [Vote here]
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The UCLA Immunogenetics Center (UIC) provides comprehensive testing for organ and tissue transplantation. Transplant testing has a long history at UCLA. HLA typing was pioneered here in the 1960's. The development of the microcytoxicity test in 1964 marked the beginning of international testing and standardization of HLA typing. The UCLA Immunogenetics Center has retained its leadership position in HLA research, and in the development of accompanying diagnostic testing. MORE
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ODRC, AOPO
The Organ Donation Research Consortium (ODRC) with additional support from the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) is pleased to offer up to $40,000 in funding to member(s) conducting basic, translational, or clinical research specifically related to the organization's mission to advance the science of organ donation. [Learn more]
AST
Every month, the AJT receives a huge number of high-quality submissions for which it simply does not have the space to accommodate. In an AST blog post, Editor-in-Chief Allan Kirk describes a new journal referral program that will efficiently find a home for many of these excellent manuscripts among Wiley's family of transplant-related journals.
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AST
Check out AST's archived webinars and journal clubs, and watch educational content when it's convenient for you. AST also offers a variety of resources for different transplant specialties, all available on our easy-to-search website.
AST
June 11-15, 2016 | Boston, MA
For more information: atcmeeting.org/
AST Events at ATC:
We hope you are able to join us at the following events at ATC. Everything takes place in the John B. Hynes Convention Center, unless otherwise noted.
Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony
Sunday, June 12, 2016 | 9:45 - 10 a.m.
Hynes Convention Center
Achievement Awards Ceremony
Monday, June 13, 2016 | 9:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Hynes Convention Center
AST President's Address
Monday, June 13, 2016 | 9:45 - 10:15 a.m.
Hynes Convention Center
Town Hall and Excellence in Transplantation Reception
Monday, June 13, 2016 | 6 - 8 p.m.
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Republic Ballroom
AST & ESOT Basic Science Meeting
November 10 - 12, 2016
Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale at Cypress Creek, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
AST ESOT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE NOW OPEN
Submission Deadline is: June 26, 2016
Registration is now open! Don't miss out, register today!
The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies
June 22-25, 2015 | Boston, MA
For more information: myast.org/meetings/focis-2016
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Predicting your "Observed to Expected" ratios
by cohort, by patient, and by risk factor
Wait List Management
Ensuring your wait listed patients are transplant-ready
one phone call at a time.
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The New York Times
Last June, after it became clear that their 3-month-old son, Nathan, needed a liver transplant, Rob and Christina Whitehead of Mokena, Ill., created a Facebook page to tell his story. Word spread quickly. “More than a hundred people called our donor hotline,” recalled Talia B. Baker, director of the Living Donor Liver Transplant program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Liver allocation policies are evaluated by how they impact waitlisted patients, without considering broader outcomes for all patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) not on the waitlist. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using two nationally representative databases: HealthCore (2006–2014) and five-state Medicaid (California, Florida, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania; 2002–2009).
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Transplantation
One of the major events in ischemia-reperfusion (I/R)-induced heart injury in cardiac transplantation is the generation of reactive oxygen species. We hypothesized that a novel preservation solution called SBI-SEIIKU II (SS-II) contains 3 antioxidant reagents: L-cysteine, glycine, ascorbic acid/ascorbic acid-2-phosphate magnesium, which can block the generation of reactive oxygen species to result in a prolongation of the cold storage time via attenuating I/R injury.
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ASAIO Journal
Unlike the lung allocation score, currently, there is no quantitative scoring system available for patients on heart transplant waiting list. By using United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data, we aim to generate a scoring system based on the recipient and donor risk factors to predict posttransplant survival. Available UNOS data were queried between 2005 and 2013 for heart transplant recipients aged greater than or equal to 18 years to create separate cox-proportional hazard models for recipient and donor risk scoring.
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PEC
Kidney transplant recipients face many self-management challenges. We aimed to identify profiles of attitudes towards self-management support (SMS) shortly after kidney transplantation. Profiles were generated using Q-methodology: In face-to-face interviews participants rank-ordered opinion statements on aspects of SMS according to agreement. Socio-demographic and medical characteristics were assessed using a questionnaire. By-person factor analysis was used to analyze the rankings and qualitative data was used to support choice of profiles. The resulting factors represent clusters of patients with similar attitudes towards SMS.
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The Alliance
The Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance (The Alliance) invites key hospital system, transplant and OPO leaders to convene for a 1 ½ day national critical issues forum. The primary goal of this event is to identify novel collaborations and strategies to increase the number of transplants done in the United States. Expert leaders will discuss the science of decision-making as it relates to organ utilization, and analyze how existing practice patterns may limit the number of transplants performed. Examples of unconventional strategies implemented by transplant centers, organ procurement organizations, and hospitals that have been successful in expanding organ utilization will be presented and discussed.
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