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Like most non-profit organizations, the AST has many valuable relationships that contribute to its continued growth and sustainability. To give our partners the opportunity to showcase their current initiatives and news, the AST posted its June 2019 Partner's Blog. READ MORE
Congratulations to the 122 committed members who participated in the 2018-2019 Member-Get-a-Member Referral program. The 2019-2020 program has just launched! All members who successfully recruit 3 new members will receive 1 year of membership free! In addition, you will be entered into the yearly prize drawing, which includes an iPad or AST bucks.
We’re making it easy for you to refer new members with our referral form. You can quickly send a personal and professional email message to refer your colleagues by clicking here.
Spread the word! Recommend colleagues for membership and earn rewards! Visit the Member-Get-A-Member page for program details and other resources.
The AST Career Development Grants have a new submission period for the 2020 cycle. Applications will now open on August 1, 2019 and will be accepted until December 1, 2019.
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See jobs as they're posted by following the AST Career Center on Twitter. The Career Center connects hiring organizations and transplant professionals searching for career opportunities. AST members with openings to fill can post them here.
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Join the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT), and The Transplantation Society (TTS) for the International Transplantation Science (ITS) meeting in Clearwater Beacher, Florida. This meeting will provide in-depth, cutting-edge basic science with talks by leading experts in select topics in transplantation and immunology.
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As an AST member, access to free or discounted educational resources are included in your membership. These diverse educational resources offer materials relevant to the transplant professional in every stage of their career – from basic trainee lessons to webinars on specialized topics. Learn More
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The Transplant Nephrology Core Curriculum (TNCC) is an online program jointly provided by the American Society of Nephrology and the American Society of Transplantation. The TNCC focuses on key information needed to prepare for the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification examinations.
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Transplant professionals have increasing demands on their time. Finding time in one's day to attend conferences or to read journals is challenging. Transplant in 10 is intended to provide transplant professionals with short, easily accessible videos on key and updated topics in 10 minutes.
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A prospective multicenter observational study of cell‐mediated immunity as a predictor for cytomegalovirus infection in kidney transplant recipients
July 23, 2019 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
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We compared access to a kidney transplantation (KT) waiting list (WL) and to KT between people living with HIV (PLHIV) and HIV‐uninfected controls. Using the REIN (the national Renal Epidemiology and Information Network registry), we included all PLHIV initiating dialysis in France throughout 2006‐2010 and HIV‐uninfected controls matched for age, sex, year of dialysis initiation, and the existence of a diabetic nephropathy.
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The U.S. opioid use epidemic over the past decade has coincided with an increase in HCV positive donors. Using propensity score matching, and the Organ Procurement Transplant Network data files from January 2015 to June 2019, we analyzed the short‐term outcomes of adult deceased donor kidney transplants of HCV uninfected recipients with two distinct groups of HCV positive donors (HCV seropositive, non‐viremic n=352 and viremic n=196) compared to those performed using HCV uninfected donors (n=36,934).
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It has been suggested that microsteatosis does not negatively impact graft survival following liver transplantation (LT). The present study represents the largest series on donor livers with significant microsteatosis and investigates the impact of microsteatosis on peri‐operative factors such as post reperfusion syndrome (PRS), early allograft dysfunction and post‐operative renal dysfunction.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transportation
Access to timely suitably size-matched quality organs remains a challenge for pediatric and adult lung transplantation. The outcomes of donation after circulatory death donor lungs from pediatric or adult donors are rarely reported.
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Transplantation
The field of transplantation is shifting outcome priorities from one-year survival to more comprehensive metrics including transplant rate and waitlist mortality. Identifying disenfranchised candidates (high waitlist death risk, low transplantation chance) can be a focus to improve outcomes.
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