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AST
We all know that an organ donor can save up to 8 lives. Help honor these donors by donating $8 to AST’s Power2Save initiative. Every dollar counts!
All donations made on Power2Save by a COP member will also be counted toward the COP Donation Derby.
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The 2017 COP giving contest, The Donation Derby, is in full force. Watch this race, as the COPs compete for two prizes. All donations made by COPs until the end of the year will count towards this contest, so be sure to check it out today.
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Have you submitted your abstract? The deadline for CEoT 2018 abstracts has been extended to December 22, 2017!
The deadline to receive the discounted rate for CEoT 2018 is approaching. Book by January 5, 2018, to receive this special pricing.
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Sanofi Genzyme provides benefits to patients by:
• Partnering with the community to increase access to transplant for appropriate patients
• Supporting patient advocacy and education
• Organ donation awareness initiatives
• Supporting clinicians to improve patient care
We define our success by the success of transplant patients
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AST
As the 2017 AST membership year winds down, don’t forget to renew your membership and reaffirm your commitment to the AST for 2018. Renewal invoices have been mailed and e-mailed to members and are due December 31, 2017. If you didn’t receive your invoice, you can log in anytime to your AST member account to view, print, and pay for your invoice. If you need assistance or have further questions, please contact our Membership Services Team.
AST
For the third year in a row, the AST has received the highly coveted 4-star rating for Charity Navigator. Since 2002, using objective analysis, Charity Navigator has awarded only the most fiscally responsible organizations a 4-star rating.
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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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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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Invite your colleagues to join AST! We’re making it easier for you to refer new members with our new, easy referral form! You can quickly send a personal and professional email message to refer your colleagues by clicking here. Be sure to share how new members who join now until the end of the year receive a special offer - a full year of membership for 2018 and the rest of 2017 included free!
For every new member successfully recruited, your name will be entered to win one of the following great prizes:
- iPad and free membership for 2018
- $500 AST bucks
- $250 AST bucks
Spread the word! Recommend colleagues for membership through the 2017-2018 year and get your chance to win! Visit the Member-Get-A-Member page for program details and other new resources!
American Journal of Transplantation
Incompatible living donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) has been established as an effective option for end-stage renal disease patients with willing but HLA-incompatible living donors, reducing mortality and improving quality of life. Depending on antibody titer, ILDKT can require highly resource-intensive procedures, including intravenous immunoglobulin, plasma exchange, and/or cell-depleting antibody treatment, as well as protocol biopsies and donor-specific antibody testing. This study sought to compare the cost and Medicare reimbursement, exclusive of organ acquisition payment, for ILDKT (n = 926) with varying antibody titers to matched compatible transplants (n = 2762) performed between 2002 and 2011.
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American Journal of Transplantation
According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart failure (HF) remains a pervasive condition with high morbidity and mortality, affecting 5.8 million people in the United States and 23 million worldwide. For patients with refractory end-stage HF, heart transplantation is the “gold standard” for definitive treatment.
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Liver Transplantation
Platelets interact with tumor cells and promote metastasis. The importance of platelets in posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence is unclear. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the association between preoperative platelet count (PLT) and HCC recurrence after living donor liver transplantation.
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Liver Transplantation
Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a technically demanding endeavor, requiring command of the complex anatomy of partial liver grafts. We examined the influence of anatomic variation and reconstruction techniques on surgical outcomes and graft survival in the 9-center Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study (A2ALL).
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Transplantation
When a deceased-donor kidney is offered to a waitlisted candidate, the decision to accept or decline the organ relies primarily upon a practitioner’s experience and intuition. Such decisions must achieve a delicate balance between estimating the immediate benefit of transplantation and the potential for future higher-quality offers. However, the current experience-based paradigm lacks scientific rigor and is subject to the inaccuracies that plague anecdotal decision-making.
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