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Watch the Fellows Symposium from your home or office! The live stream of Fellows 2018 will be available September 28-30. Check out the AST website for more information.
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Now through November 30, 2018, the AST is accepting nominations for its 2019 Board of Directors. If you are interested in joining the AST board, or know someone who is, we encourage you to submit your nomination.
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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 has created its brand-new Partner Blog.
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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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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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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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Family Planning in SOT
October 10, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
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Reaching the Hard to Reach: Strategies to Reduce Cultural Barriers in Living Kidney Donation
- Discuss the importance of initiating culturally competent discussions about living kidney donation with potential donors and candidates
- Identify ways to integrate culturally tailored navigation assistance throughout the donation and transplant process.
- Describe at least one innovative programs to reduce cultural barriers to living kidney donation
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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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CMS announced a proposed rule to relieve burden on healthcare providers by removing unnecessary, obsolete or excessively burdensome Medicare compliance requirements for healthcare facilities. Collectively, these updates would save healthcare providers an estimated $1.12 billion annually.
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American Journal of Transplantation
A recent study reported that kidney transplant recipients of offspring living donors had higher graft loss and mortality. This seemed counterintuitive, given the excellent HLA matching and younger age of offspring donors; we were concerned about residual confounding and other study design issues. We used SRTR data 2001‐2016 to evaluate death‐censored graft failure (DCGF) and mortality for recipients of offspring versus non‐offspring living donor kidneys, using Cox regression models with interaction terms.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Hearts from older donors are increasingly utilized for transplantation due to unmet demand. Conflicting evidence exists regarding the prognosis of recipients of advanced age donor hearts, especially in young recipients. A retrospective analysis was performed on 11 433 patients aged 18 to 45 who received a cardiac transplant from 2000 to 2017. Overall, 10 279 patients received hearts from donors less than 45 and 1145 from donors greater than 45.
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In 2014, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), implemented a new Kidney Allocation Program (KAS), expanding the dichotomy of extended and standard criteria donors to include a spectrum of 10 specific donor characteristics, forming the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI).
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Liver Transplantation
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a severe complication after liver transplantation that can result in increased morbidity and mortality. Few data are available regarding risk factors, classification, and treatment of PVT after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Between January 2004 and November 2014, 421 adult‐to‐adult LDLTs were performed at our institution, and they were included in the analysis.
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Since the implementation of the Model of End-stage Liver Disease score-based allocation system, the number of transplant candidates with impaired renal function has increased. The aims of this review are to present new insights in the definitions and predisposing factors that result in acute kidney injury (AKI), and to propose guidelines for the prevention and treatment of postliver transplantation (LT) AKI. This review is based on both systematic review of relevant literature and expert opinion.
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