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Join us in sunny Phoenix, AZ at the beautiful Biltmore Hotel, February 8-10, 2018 for this exciting meeting! This year's topic will focus on breaking through regulatory barriers to unleash the innovation needed to advance the field of transplantation!
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The AST is now accepting nominations for the 2018 Board Elections. Open positions on the Board of Directors include President-Elect, Treasurer (two-year term), and three Councilors-at-Large (three-year terms). The term of service begins with the rotation of the Board at the Town Hall that will be held during the 2018 American Transplant Congress in Seattle, WA.
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Submitting an abstract to the American Transplant Congress means that it will be peer reviewed and may be accepted for either an oral or a poster presentation. All accepted abstracts will be published in an online Supplement to The American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), the Joint Journal of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and American Society of Transplantation (AST).
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The AST Career Center connects hiring organizations and transplant professionals searching for career opportunities. AST members with openings to fill can post them here at a significantly reduced rate. For answers to questions about the Career Center, please visit: https://www.myast.org/career-center.
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We are collaborating with the transplant community to improve the health of transplant patients through
• Innovative approaches and partnerships in data generation
• Working to improve long-term graft and patient survival
• Encouraging success through patient programs and outreach
We are committed to you, your patients, and the future of transplantation
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Check out AST's archived webinars and journal clubs, and watch educational content when it's convenient for you. The AST also offers a variety of resources for different transplant specialties, all available on our easy-to-search website.
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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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The Comprehensive Trainee Curriculum (CTC) is AST's latest addition to its member benefits. This feature is an online educational platform that features dozens of webinars on various concentrations of transplantation.
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A blood test that measures donor-derived cell-free DNA, a direct indicator of kidney injury
Ideal rejection surveillance tool with high NPV and specificity
Clinically and analytically validated
Covered by Medicare
Learn more at www.allosure.com
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In this upcoming webinar from UNOS, Dr. Ryan Davies, Vice-Chair of the OPTN/UNOS Thoracic Committee and Kim Uccellini, UNOS’ Thoracic policy Committee Liaison will explain what you can expect when adult heart allocation policy changes in 2018.
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November 14, 2017 2 p.m. Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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"IgG Endopeptidase in Highly Sensitized Patients Undergoing Transplantation"
November 8, 2017 | 2 p.m. ET | Online activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
"Zbtb7a Induction in Alveolar Macrophages is Implicated in Anti-HLA–Mediated Lung Allograft Rejection"
November 20, 2017 | 12 p.m. ET | Online activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
"THE NATIONAL LANDSCAPE OF LIVING KIDNEY DONOR FOLLOW-UP IN THE UNITED STATES"
December 7, 2017 | 2 p.m. ET | Online activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/astajt-journal-club
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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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Visit the AST Member Spotlight page to find out how the complexity of problems to be investigated in transplantation led Dr. Adrian Morelli to work in transplant immunology and what he finds to be the most valuable aspect of his work.
Interested in being featured in the AST Member Spotlight? Please contact rpaulin@myast.org for more information.
Clinical Transplantation
Transplant patients often seek specific data and statistics to inform medical decision making; however, for many relevant measures, patient-friendly information is not available. Development of patient-centered resources should be informed by patient needs. This study used qualitative document research methods to review 678 detailed Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) entries and summary counts of 55,362 United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) entries to provide a better understanding of what was asked and what requests were most common.
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Transplant International
Treatment of acute rejection (AR) following kidney transplantation has improved in recent years, but there are still limitations to successful outcomes. This review article covers literature in regards to recipient and donor genetics of AR kidney and secondarily of liver allografts. Many candidate gene and some genome wide association studies (GWAS) have been conducted for AR in kidney transplantation.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The relationship between healthcare utilization before and after liver transplantation (LT) and its association with center characteristics is incompletely understood. This was a retrospective cohort study of 34,402 adult LTs between 2002-2013 using Vizient inpatient claims data linked to the United Network for Organ Sharing database. Multivariable mixed-effects linear regression models evaluated the association between hospitalization 90 days pre-LT and the number of days alive and out of the hospital (DAOH) 1 year post-LT.
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Transplant Infectious Disease
Donors with an increased risk of transmitting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV) (increased risk donors [IRDs]) are a potential source of organs for transplant. Organs from IRDs can be utilized with appropriate recipient consent and post-transplant follow-up. We reviewed the characteristics and utilization of IRDs in our Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) over a 2-year period.
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Obesity Surgery
Patients with a body mass index (BMI) >35 kg/m2 who need kidney transplant present with increased postoperative mortality and reduced kidney graft survival compared to patients with a lower BMI. For this reason, obese patients are often excluded from the transplantation waiting list. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and the results of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) for obese patients awaiting a kidney transplant.
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