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The AST’s Transplantation and Immunology Research Network (TIRN) expands the scope, reach, funding, and effectiveness of the AST’s research program. Be sure you take advantage of this AST member benefit and add your name to the registry!
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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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Recommend AST membership to your colleagues for 2016 so that they can receive the discounted member rates to AST's Cutting Edge of Transplantation (CEOT) meeting and The American Transplant Congress (ATC). All individuals who join in December will receive this month free and remain a member in good standing through December 2016! Please email info@myAST.org with any questions on how to refer new members.
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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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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.
CEOT 2016 – Cutting Edge of Transplantation Register today!
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February 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
Facial allotransplantation restores normal anatomy to severely disfigured faces. Although more than 30 such operations performed worldwide have yielded promising short-term results, data on long-term outcomes remain scarce. Three full-face transplant recipients were followed for 40 months. Severe changes in volume and composition of the facial allografts were noted. Data from computed tomography performed 6, 18 and 36 months after transplantation were processed to separate allograft from recipient tissues and further into bone, fat and nonfat soft tissues.
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International Urology and Nephrology
Whether organs from donors after brain death (DBD) with acute kidney injury (AKI) should be accepted for transplantation is still a matter of debate. This was a retrospective, center-based, matched cohort study of 33 renal transplant patients who received a renal allograft from a DBD with AKI. Sixty-five kidney transplants without donor AKI transplanted directly before and after the index transplantation served as controls.
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Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Awareness of smoking complications in liver transplantation patients is increasing. No study in the past 15 years has addressed attitudes toward offering transplantation to smokers. Our aim was to determine smoking policies nationwide. We conducted a survey of liver transplantation centers. The seven-question survey was sent to medical and surgical directors of liver transplantation. Results were analyzed in R 3.1.1 using two-tailed t testing and ANOVA.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Analysis and dissemination of transplant patient safety data are essential to understanding key issues facing the transplant community and fostering a “culture of safety.” The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network's (OPTN) Operations and Safety Committee de-identified safety situations reported through several mechanisms, including the OPTN's online patient safety portal, through which the number of reported cases has risen sharply.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Emerging adulthood (17–24 years) is a period of high risk for graft failure in kidney transplant. Whether a similar association exists in heart transplant recipients is unknown. We sought to estimate the relative hazards of graft failure at different current ages, compared with patients between 20 and 24 years old. We evaluated 11 473 patients recorded in the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients who received a first transplant at less than 40 years old (1988–2013) and had at least 6 months of graft function.
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