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The International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) is looking for two active members to facilitate the new Special Interest Group (SIG) listservs. The facilitators will spark conversation and share current transplant information and initiatives with members of each SIG:
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)
- Bedside/Staff Nurse
To apply, email Rita Wirth at rwirth@itns.org a short description of why you are interested in the position and your experience with listservs and online communities by Wednesday, Jan. 23.
 
Country of the Month: Brazil
The General Hospital of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo was built in 1956. It is a public hospital that serves as a teaching and research facility for students of seven undergraduate courses: Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, Speech-Language Pathology and Biomedical Informatics. Each year, it offers 821 positions in 71 Medical Residency programs, 12 positions in eight Multiprofessional Residency programs, 10 positions in four Cancer Care residency programs and 89 Specialization course in 28 non-medical programs. It is also field of activity for postgraduate studies at masters and doctoral levels for these same courses, having received 1,827 postgraduate students during 2017.
Since 1988, the General Hospital has been integrated into the Unified Health System (SUS), being characterized as a large hospital of high complexity, constituting a tertiary reference for the north region of the State of São Paulo, which is composed of about four million inhabitants. It provides health services to the population of more than 26 cities surrounding Ribeirão Preto. It has accumulated some major milestones in the transplantation field, being the first Latin American hospital to perform a kidney transplant with a deceased donor, the first Brazilian hospital to accomplish stem cell transplantations for the treatment of lupus and multiple sclerosis, and the first center in the world to perform stem cell transplantation for the treatment of type 1 diabetes.
It is nowadays a reference center in kidney, liver, pancreas, bone marrow and corneal transplants in Brazil. The General Hospital has been consolidating itself as a tertiary reference of quality healthcare, maintaining itself at the forefront application of cutting-edge technology and in the development of new methods and programs applied to healthcare. It is definitely a reason for pride among Ribeirão Preto area citizens. The next steps will be the implantation of heart and lung transplant services, as well as the multivisceral transplantation.
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 Course: Current Trends in Transplantation
Date: Saturday, March 9, 2019
Location: Goldfarb School of Nursing Auditorium St. Louis, MO 63110
Learn more at https://cmeonline.wustl.edu/itns/index.htm.
Updates in pediatric intestinal failure and transplant: Educational strategies and neurodevelopmental assessment
Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 - 11:00 a.m. EST
This webinar will focus on aspects of patient care outcomes within intestinal rehabilitation and transplant. The topics presented will provide an overview of successful educational interventions for caregivers who are learning central line care and home TPN administration. Additionally, the webinar will include an overview of neurodevelopmental outcomes in this patient population. This webinar is being presented by the Allied Health Committee of IRTA.
Learn more and register.
American College of Surgeons via Medical Xpress
Among African-American adults undergoing liver transplant to treat liver cancer, patients whose organ donor was also African-American lived significantly longer than those with a racially unmatched donor, report authors of a new study using national data. The study is published online as an "article in press" on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website in advance of print publication.
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University of Basel via EurekAlert!
Organ transplant rejection is a major problem in transplantation medicine. Suppressing the immune system to prevent organ rejection, however, opens the door to life-threatening infections. Researchers at the University of Basel's Biozentrum have now discovered a molecular approach preventing rejection of the transplanted graft while simultaneously maintaining the ability to fight against infections.
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JAMA Pediatrics
In this multicenter cohort study of 6,980 pediatric solid organ transplant recipients at a Pediatric Health Information System center, 16 percent of individuals had at least one hospitalization for a vaccine-preventable infection in the first five years after transplant. Children who received transplants when they were younger than two years and transplant recipients of lung, intestine, heart, and multivisceral organs were at increased risk for hospitalization with a vaccine-preventable infection.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 More than 100,000 people in the United States are sick enough to benefit from a heart transplant. In 2017, only 3,244 people actually received one. The number of people in need of a heart transplant is growing, and the number of heart transplants performed each year is growing as well. Donations, however, have reached a plateau. In two new Stanford University-led studies, researchers say the number of people on the waiting list could be reduced by using hearts that transplant centers often overlook, such as those organs that once belonged to people who were obese or who had an active hepatitis C infection.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
The Canadian status 4S category prioritizes highly sensitized patients with a calculated panel reactive antibody greater than 80 percent awaiting heart transplantation. We examined the impact of sensitization and status 4S and developed a predictive model to estimate waiting time in Canada.
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Ace Newz
A research study led by immunologist Joan Nichols at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and colleagues developed bioengineered lungs for four pigs by using a sugar and detergent mixture to strip the cells from lungs of donor pigs. The study was published online on Aug. 1, 2018, in Science Translational Medicine. Lab-grown lungs developed healthy blood vessels that allowed pigs to survive for several weeks after surgery without medical complications. Previous studies reported failure in implantation of lab-grown lungs in rodents within few hours, due to underdeveloped blood vessel network, which is necessary for long-term survival.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Livers from older donors are risky and often declined; however, it is likely that some candidates will benefit from OLDs versus waiting for younger ones. To characterize the survival benefit of accepting OLD grafts, we used 2009‐2017 SRTR data to identify 24,431 adult liver transplant candidates who were offered OLD grafts eventually accepted by someone.
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Middle East Monitor
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the latest stage of the “From Gaza to Liverpool” kidney transplant program has begun.
This stage is the 20th installment of the program, which is led by the head of the Organ Surgery Centre at the Royal Liverpool Hospital in the UK, Dr Abdelkader Hammad, Safa reported.
Since 2013 Dr Hammad – who is of Palestinian origin – has worked alongside his colleagues to transfer organ transplant expertise from Liverpool to the besieged Gaza Strip. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 61 kidney transplants have been carried out since the start of the program.
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