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AST
At this time of Thanksgiving, the thoughts of the AST management team and AST leadership turn to our members, partners, and sponsors with warm appreciation. Thank you for sharing your time and talents with the AST. It is only with your ongoing participation and support that we continue to advance the field of transplantation and improve patient care by promoting research, education, advocacy, and organ donation. Warm wishes to you and yours.
AST
Did you know that you can keep abreast of your AST Board's activities? Summaries from meetings are available on the AST website after minutes are approved by the board during the following month's meeting. Take a look and see what your leadership is doing each month to continue to maintain and grow the Society.
AST
There are several opportunities to advance legislation with a direct impact on transplantation. You can make your voice heard by reaching out to your local representatives to encourage their support and sponsorship of the Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Kidney patients Act of 2016 and the Living Donor Protection Act. Visit the AST website to learn more about these legislative items and help raise awareness through an urgent request for grassroots support.
Contact your three Members of Congress and urge them to cosponsor & pass these important transplant community legislative initiatives. The preferred grassroots method to advance legislation is to personally make contact with your two U.S. Senators and U.S. House Representative. Information on identifying and accessing contact information for your representatives is available on the AST website for your convenience.
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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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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
Dec. 7, 2016 1 PM Online Activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/webinars/optimizing-your-living-kidney-donor-program
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Dec. 12, 2016 2 p.m. Online Activity
For more information: https://www.myast.org/education/webinars/t3
CEOT
The theme of improving long-term outcomes is extending into AST's 2017 Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEOT) meeting. We hope you will join us for “One Transplant for Life: Many Pathways to Success.” February 23-25 in Phoenix Arizona, being held at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore. Throughout the conference, individual sessions will focus on specific topic areas regarding donor organ survival including barriers to therapeutic innovation, enhanced measures of quality and value, tolerance, recipient candidacy and post-transplant infections, as well as policy topics such as the use of marginal organs.
ATC
The American Transplant Congress is designed for physicians, surgeons, scientists, nurses, organ procurement personnel and pharmacists who are interested in the clinical and research aspects of solid organ and tissue transplantation. The meeting will provide the most current information in the field of transplant science. The deadline to submit abstracts is Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. For more information regarding abstract submission, please click here.
American Journal of Transplantation
Because results from single-center (mostly kidney) donor studies demonstrate interpersonal relationship and financial strains for some donors, we conducted a liver donor study involving nine centers within the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study 2 (A2ALL-2) consortium. Among other initiatives, A2ALL-2 examined the nature of these outcomes following donation.
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The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research
There are an increasing number of reports of pregnancy following liver transplantation, but many questions remain regarding preconception counseling and management of the pregnancy. The aim of this study was to report pregnancy outcomes in women who had undergone liver transplants and to gain insight into these issues.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Allocation of liver grafts triggers emotional debates, as those patients, not receiving an organ, are prone to death. We analyzed a high–Model of End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) cohort (laboratory MELD score greater than or equal to 30, n = 100, median laboratory MELD score of 35; interquartile range 31–37) of liver transplant recipients at our center during the past 10 years and compared results with a low-MELD group, matched by propensity scoring for donor age, recipient age, and cold ischemia time.
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Hepatology International
Cardiac morbidities can occur during the peri- and post-liver transplant (LT) period, affecting the long-term survival. The purpose of this study was to identify the potential factors that predict a coronary event post-transplantation.
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American Journal of Transplantation
On Sept. 19, 2016, scientists and physicians from four continents and 12 countries traveled to Boston to discuss stem cell derived beta cells at the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association (IPITA)-Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Helmsley-Harvard Stem Cell Institute Key Opinion Leaders Meeting on Stem Cell Derived Beta Cells. "Recently, there have been landmark achievements that have really reinvigorated the field," said Jon S. Odorico, M.D., IPITA president, in his welcoming remarks. The goals of the conference were to present this cutting-edge science of pluripotent stem cell derived beta cells and develop an understanding of supporting technologies. Such technologies include encapsulation, function and immune response assays.
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