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Help your COP(s) achieve their goals in the 2018 COP giving contest: The Donation Derby. This is the perfect way to help your COP(s) fund their projects. All donations made by COP members until the end of the year will count towards this contest, so be sure to check it out today.
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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. The deadline to submit your abstracts is December 13.
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Visit the AST Member Spotlight page to find out what Josh Blatter did before changing careers to pediatric lung transplant.
Interested in being featured in the AST Member Spotlight? Please contact rpaulin@myast.org for more information.
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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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In keeping up with our patient initiatives, we spent 2018 updating our current patient education brochures, including Spanish translations to ensure more patients have access to educational materials. We are looking to our Spanish speaking members to volunteer their time to review the documents for accuracy. There are a total of 16 brochures that are in need of review, so the more volunteers, the better! Please contact Mrs. Rae Massi, AST's Patient Education Program Managers, by email to show your interest: rmassi@myAST.org.
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As the 2019 AST membership year winds down, don’t forget to renew your membership and reaffirm your commitment to the AST for 2019. Renewal invoices were distributed and are due December 31, 2018. 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. Please note, if you wish to participate in the COP Elections this year, your dues must be paid by December 31, 2018. If you need assistance or have further questions, please email info@myAST.org.
Don’t miss out on all the future AST educational, networking, advocacy, and research efforts! Click here to renew today!
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Interested in getting involved with the AST? Take a moment to fill out our Committee Interest form. To be considered for a position next year, this must be completed by December 31.
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The AST sponsors a variety of Achievement Awards in recognition of AST members' achievements and contributions to the field of transplantation. The AST encourages members to nominate deserving candidates for consideration. Make your nominations by January 31.
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The Fellow of the American Society of Transplantation (FAST) designation application is now open to all members who meet the eligibility criteria. Instructions for the application can be found here. The deadline to apply is January 15, 2019. Don't miss out on joining this prestigious program and be recognized for your contributions to transplantation.
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The study is designed to explore an investigational drug-maribavir-in stem cell transplant and solid organ transplant recipients whose CMV infections are not responding to current treatments. This investigational drug is given as an oral pill. Please visit to learn more about the SOLSTICE study.
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The first and only clinically and analytically validated blood test that measures donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA), a direct indicator of kidney injury
Covered by Medicare
AlloSure 101 – Development & Summary Webinar – view
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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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Building Blocks of a Transplant QAPI Plan
December 12, 2018 | 2 pm ET | Online Activity
For more information, click here.
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Are you a diplomate of the ABIM? Confused on the new options for testing and re-certification?
Here are a few important things to know:
- Sign into the ABIM physician portal – what you personally need to do to re-certify should be clearly spelled out for you.
- Two options exist for testing to stay certified – the 2 year KCI (knowledge check-in) test and the standard every 10 year test. The 2 year KCI can be done at home and should take about 2-3 hours to do whereas the 10 year test is an all-day test at a testing center.
- To stay certified, you need to earn 100 MOC points every 5 years after certification or re-certification; and every 2 years you’ll need to complete at least one MOC activity of any point value. Some of the sessions at ATC offer MOC points! This year, we will make it clear in the program which sessions offer MOC points.
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KRAFT
The KPCOP Kidney Recipients with Allograft Failure, Transition of Care (KRAFT) Workgroup has created a brief survey on the Management of Patients with Failing Kidney Allografts, designed to gather additional information on the practice patterns that currently exist in the transplant community, and help us to understand differences in management approaches.
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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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The Lancet
Uterus transplantation from live donors became a reality to treat infertility following a successful Swedish 2014 series, inspiring uterus transplantation centres and programmes worldwide. However, no case of livebirth via deceased donor uterus has, to our knowledge, been successfully achieved, raising doubts about its feasibility and viability, including whether the womb remains viable after prolonged ischaemia.
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Liver Transplantation
Improvement in cognitive function after orthotopic liver transplantation (LT) has been demonstrated in the acute setting immediately after LT and in acute liver failure. However, the longterm changes in cerebral hemodynamics after LT remain unexplored. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the longterm changes in cerebral hemodynamics of patients with cirrhosis after LT.
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Liver Transplantation
The cava‐preserving piggyback (PB) technique requires only partial cava clamping during the anhepatic phase in liver transplantation (LT) and, therefore, maintains venous return and may hemodynamically stabilize the recipient. Hence, it is an ongoing debate whether PB implantation is more protective from acute kidney injury (AKI) after LT when compared with a classic cava replacement (CR) technique. The aim of this study was to assess the rate of AKI and other complications after LT comparing both transplant techniques without the use of venovenous bypass.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The new French heart allocation system is designed to minimize waitlist mortality and extend the donor pool without a detrimental effect on post‐transplant survival. This study was designed to construct a 1‐year post‐transplant graft‐loss risk score incorporating recipient and donor characteristics. The study included all adult first single‐organ recipients transplanted between 2010 and 2014 (N=1776).
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American Journal of Transplantation
A consensus conference on frailty in kidney, liver, heart and lung transplantation, sponsored by the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and endorsed by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST), took place on Feb. 11, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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