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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
The recent identification of an outbreak of 2019‐ novel coronavirus is currently evolving, and the impact on transplantation is unknown. However, it is imperative that we anticipate the potential impact on the transplant community in order to avert severe consequences of this infection on both the transplant community and contacts of transplant patients.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
Prioritization of highly sensitized candidates under the Kidney Allocation System and growth of large, multicenter kidney‐paired donation clearinghouses have broadened the transplant modalities available to HS candidates. To quantify temporal trends in utilization of these modalities, researchers used SRTR data from 2009‐2017 to study 39,907 adult HS waitlisted candidates and 19,003 recipients.
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The Washington Post
In what turned out to be a record-setting year, 39,717 organs — hearts and kidneys, for instance — were transplanted in 2019 in U.S. residents. It was the seventh consecutive year that the number of organ transplants has increased, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit organization that has the federal contract to coordinate the country’s organ procurement and transplant effort.
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Global Times
A Chinese medical team successfully carried out the world's first double-lung transplant on Feb. 29 for a patient who was infected with the COVID-19 virus, which is of great significance in reducing critical cases.
Chen Jingyu, a well-known expert in the lung transplant field and deputy head of the Wuxi People's Hospital, performed the five-hour operation with his team in East China's Jiangsu Province.
The COVID-19 patient has been awake since the surgery was finished, the patient's vital signs are stable, and the transplanted lungs function well, Chen told the Global Times on March 1.
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Currently, there are 6,153 people waiting for an organ transplant in the UK, and 3,474 have received one since April last year. However, over 400 people died in 2019 while waiting for a transplant and the country is facing a significant shortage of donors, particularly from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.
Now, the UK is introducing a new law where all eligible adults will be automatically enrolled as organ donors unless they choose to opt out, transitioning away from the previous system where people needed to opt in.
Even when a heart, lung or kidney is acquired and transplanted, recipients’ bodies can reject the new organ. While they go on to take immunosuppressive drugs to minimize the risk of this happening, these aren’t always successful and come with risks of their own.
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Clinical Transplantation
Opioid medications are frequently used to address pain among patients with cirrhosis, including those on the liver transplant waitlist and after transplantation. However, opioid use has been associated with poor allograft outcomes and reduced transplant survival.
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Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition via MD Linx
Using national registry data and parametric models, researchers sought to project 20- and 30-year posttransplant outcomes for recently transplanted pediatric liver transplant recipients.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
Data for liver transplant recipients regarding the benefit of care concordant with clinical practice guidelines for management of blood pressure are sparse. This paper reports on clinician adherence with BP clinical practice guideline recommendations and whether BP control is associated with mortality and cardiovascular events among LTRs.
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