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In many ways China’s response to the coronavirus epidemic has been impressive. According to Science, hospitals overflowing with patients a few weeks ago now have empty beds. “China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile, and aggressive disease containment effort in history,” a World Health Organization report says. The government’s newspaper Global Times recently reported that “a Chinese medical team successfully carried out the world's first double-lung transplant” for a coronavirus patient. But how, critics of the government have asked, were doctors able to find a brain-dead donor so quickly? “Whilst around the world waiting times for a single lung from a suitable donor could be years, China has shown this week that it need only be days, for two perfectly matched lungs to be rustled up,” says Ruth Ingram in Bitter Winter, a news service about religious persecution in China.
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Healio
Defining health equity as “the elimination of avoidable disparities in health outcomes among socially disadvantaged groups,” Darren Stewart, MD, a research scientist at the United Network for Organ Sharing, outlined how the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network goes about monitoring the transplantation process and also named the four factors most strongly associated with disparities in access to kidney transplant.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
Donor cytomegalovirus seropositivity at transplantation was associated with increased risk for thrombotic events post-transplantation, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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American Asssociatoin for the Study of Liver Diseases
The aim of this study was to analyze long‐term patient and graft survival after liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis from the prospective multicenter European Liver Transplant Registry. After AIH‐LT, patient survival was 79.4 percent, 70.8 percent and 60.3 percent and graft survival 73.2 percent, 63.4 percent and 50.9 percent after five, 10 and 15 years respectively of follow‐up.
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Did you know there’s a transplant support system to help patients and providers with best-in-class assistance and resources? This ongoing support system assists with benefit investigation, prior authorization assistance, coordination with specialty pharmacies, prescription fulfillment navigation, and CoverMyMeds® access. There’s also a $0 co-pay card to overcome financial barriers.
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Wiley via EurekAlert!
In the past two decades, death rates after liver transplantation have dropped by more than half in the UK, according to a recent analysis of almost 10,000 liver transplant recipients published in BJS. During this time period, survival over the first three years has improved to 83.1 percent in 2012-2016 (from 71.7 percent in 1997-2001) for patients who had transplants for cancer and to 90.7 percent (from 79.6 percent) for those transplanted for benign diseases.
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Renal & Urology News
Potassium, magnesium, and calcium-phosphorus imbalances must be carefully managed in kidney transplant recipients, according to Clifford D. Miles, MD, and Scott Gregory Westphal, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, who authored a “How I Treat” article published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
In this cohort study of 166 patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease and 87 patients with hypertension only to assess change to cardiovascular functional reserve after improving the uremic milieu through a kidney transplant using state-of-the-art cardiopulmonary exercise testing, improved cardiovascular functional reserve was seen one year after kidney transplant in the absence of significant alterations in left ventricular morphologic findings.
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American Journal of Transplantation via Wiley Online Library
Uncontrolled donation after cardiac death has the potential to ameliorate the shortage of suitable lungs for transplant. To date, no lung transplant data from these donors are available from North America. Researchers describe the successful use of these donors using a simple method of in situ lung inflation so that the organ can be protected from warm ischemic injury.
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