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Join us for an interactive discussion on personalized medicine at the 2019 Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEoT) meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Early bird registration is now open.
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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 Thompson Liver / Oncology System provides surgeons with the ability to obtain stable, versatile retraction for liver transplants, liver resections, oncology, and obesity cases. Multi-planed retraction and unlimited flexibility for the most complex abdominal and pelvic cases. Call 1-800-227-7543 to start your free trial.
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Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is a great way to expand your transplant knowledge. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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Family Planning in SOT
October 10, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
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Living Kidney Donation Education: Strategies to Optimize the Education Process for Candidates and Donors
- Explain the benefit of providing living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) education earlier in the disease process, and identify strategies for repetition throughout the process.
- Discuss engagement of patients with end-stage renal disease, their families, and possible living donors to emphasize medical facts about living donor evaluation, surgery and recovery, advantages of living donation, and strategies for how to find living donors.
- Review comprehensive risk and benefit information about LDKT, known fears or concerns about LDKT, and stories about real-life LDKT and LKD experiences for both recipients/potential donors
- Identify novel approaches to LDKT education that have shown success
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As the 2018 AST membership year winds down, don’t forget to renew your membership and reaffirm your commitment to the AST for 2019. Renewal invoices were e-mailed to members last week and are due December 31, 2018 - so please check your inboxes! If you didn’t receive your email, you can log in anytime to your AST member account to view, print, and pay for your invoice. If you need assistance or have further questions, please contact our Membership Services Team.
Don’t miss out on all the future AST educational, networking, advocacy, and research efforts! Click here to renew today!
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Transplantation was founded on the spirit of innovation and experimentation. The AST created the Innovation Award to honor an individual or team whose big ideas and “outside of the box” thinking has made a significant impact on transplantation. The award is designed to showcase successes in transplant innovation and to drive, recognize, and reward novel ideas.
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Join ASN, AST, and more than 13,000 other kidney professionals from across the globe at ASN Kidney Week 2018 in San Diego, CA. The world's premier nephrology meeting, Kidney Week provides participants exciting and challenging opportunities to exchange knowledge, learn the latest scientific and medical advances, and listen to engaging and provocative discussions with leading experts in the field. Learn about the Kidney Transplantation Early Program (Oct 23 – Oct 24).
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UNOS public comment closes on October 3. Presentations explaining the proposals will be posted on the region pages on Transplant Pro by the end of this week.
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The articles included in this email are for informational use only and are not endorsed by the AST.
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Hepatology
Screening for hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) using pulse oximetry is recommended in liver transplant (LT) candidates since mortality is increased, independent of the severity of the oxygenation defect. LT exception points may be afforded to those with HPS and severe hypoxemia. We assessed the screening characteristics of pulse oximetry for HPS. The Pulmonary Vascular Complications of Liver Disease 2 study is a multicenter, prospective cohort study of adults undergoing their first LT evaluation.
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Hepatology
Acute liver failure (ALF) caused by hepatitis A is a rare but fatal disease. Here, we developed a model to predict outcome in patients with ALF caused by hepatitis A. The derivation set consisted of 294 patients diagnosed with hepatitis A‐related ALF from Korea, and a validation set of 56 patients from Japan, India, and United Kingdom. Using multivariate proportional hazard model, a risk‐prediction model (ALFA score) comprised of age, international normalized ratio, bilirubin, ammonia, creatinine, and hemoglobin levels acquired on the day of ALF diagnosis was developed.
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Liver Transplantation
Patients having received a liver transplant for alcoholic liver disease (ALD) have a high risk of de novo malignancies, especially in the upper aerodigestive tract and lungs due to their smoking and alcohol history. The aim of this retrospective study was to compare a group of patients transplanted for ALD who continue to smoke and who were included in an intensive screening program for tobacco‐related cancers implemented at the Grenoble University Hospital, and a group of similar patients followed according to usual practice (chest CT‐scan every five years) at the Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Our objectives were to evaluate kidney transplantation survival benefit in people aged greater than or equal to 70 on renal replacement therapy (RRT) and identify their risk factors for post-transplant mortality. This study included all patients in the national French REIN registry who started RRT between 2002‐2013 at age greater than or equal to 70. Mortality risk was compared between patients with transplants, on the waiting‐list, and on dialysis matched for age, gender, comorbidities and time on dialysis.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Technical, immunologic, and patient care advancements have improved transplant outcomes, but geography and organ transportation remain impediments to access to transplantation. Organs are moved using a complex network of couriers, commercial aircraft, and transplant personnel. Reliance on commercial aircraft schedules and couriers add cold ischemia time (CIT) and may prohibit transplantation altogether. Private charters can be used, however this comes at great expense.
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