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Transplant Immunology
Produced in association with the American Society of Transplantation and written by experts in the field, Transplant Immunology provides a comprehensive overview of immunology in relation to clinical transplantation. AST members receive 35 percent off!
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On Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, people around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. Please consider donating to the AST on #GivingTuesday — 100% of your gift will go toward supporting transplantation research, education, advocacy, or organ donation.
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Is your career focused on transplantation? Do you want to better understand the sweeping changes that impact your practice? Do you value a smaller meeting setting that fosters direct interactions with your colleagues? If you answer “yes,” you do not want to miss CEOT 2016.
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The UCLA Immunogenetics Center (UIC) provides comprehensive testing for organ and tissue transplantation. Transplant testing has a long history at UCLA. HLA typing was pioneered here in the 1960's. The development of the microcytoxicity test in 1964 marked the beginning of international testing and standardization of HLA typing. The UCLA Immunogenetics Center has retained its leadership position in HLA research, and in the development of accompanying diagnostic testing. MORE
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The AST launched the Transplantation and Immunology Research Network (TIRN) to expand the scope, reach, funding, and effectiveness of the AST’s research program. Here, Dan Salomon and Anil Chandraker introduce TIRN’s newest feature: the researcher registry.
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CEOT 2016 – Cutting Edge of Transplantation
Registration now open!
AST
Feb. 25-27, 2016 | Phoenix, AZ
For more information: http://2016.ceot.myast.org/
The shortfall between the demand and the availability of organs for transplantation has never been greater. Tackling this mismatch requires a multifaceted approach, which addresses issues at all levels. CEOT 2016 focuses on how the effects of redistricting, the possibility of incentives, and how the use of marginal donors can and will impact the donor organ shortage problem.
American Journal of Transplantation
From 5,000 to 10,000 kidney patients die prematurely in the U.S. each year, and about 100,000 more suffer the debilitating effects of dialysis, because of a shortage of transplant kidneys. To reduce this shortage, many advocate having the government compensate kidney donors. This paper presents a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of such a change.
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Journal of Medical Virology
Quantitative DNA detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) and BK virus (BKV) is critical in the management of transplant patients. Quantitative laboratory-developed procedures for CMV and BKV have been described in which much of the processing is automated, resulting in rapid, reproducible, and high-throughput testing of transplant patients.
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American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Alcoholic liver disease is one of the most common
indications for liver transplantation (LT) in the
U.S. Most LT centers require at least a 6-month abstinence from alcohol before considering LT for alcoholic cirrhosis (AC). Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a unique clinical syndrome among patients with chronic and active alcohol abuse that has short-term mortality of up to 50 percent.
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You care about your transplant
patients. And so do we. That’s
why we’re introducing Astellas
Cares—a new program that
offers you customized tools,
educational resources, and
comprehensive support to help
your patients care for their
health. To register, visit
AstellasCares.com/Transplant
today.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
Evaluation of candidates to serve as living kidney donors relies on screening for individual risk factors for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). To support an empirical approach to donor selection, we developed a tool that simultaneously incorporates multiple health characteristics to estimate a person's probable long-term risk of ESRD if that person does not donate a kidney.
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PubMed
There are a number of regulatory barriers both perceived and real that have hampered widespread clinical research in the field of donation and transplantation. This article sets forth a framework clarifying the existing legal requirements and their application to the conduct of research on deceased donors and donor organs within the U.S.
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