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On April 19, 2017, Transplant Support Organization honored National Donor Month with a meeting for transplant nurses and staff.
Transplant nurses from Westchester Medical Center, The Rogosin from Weill-Cornell, and NY Presbyterian-Columbia were recognized by their patients and thanked for their personal contribution to transplantation.
Genevieve Reilly, a member of the lung transplant team from Columbia and a member of the International Transplant Nurses Society, shared her personal story with the attendees.
TSO is very grateful for the presence of these dedicated people and for the success our members have because of them.
Turkey Telegraph
The first successful lung transplant has been carried out on a cancer patient by a team in Turkey. Carried out under the leadership of Professor Dr Cemal Asım Kutlu the operation was a success and the patient has returned to normal life, just three months after undergoing the procedure.
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The OU Campus
It's not a sci-fi film or a cartoon. It's our real world: the first head transplant, ladies and gentlemen.
This surgery is not only revolutionary and surreal, but it also attempts to solve two of the many problems that medicine still can't quite figure out: Brain death and genetic degenerative terminal diseases. Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero made the world stop in 2013 when he announced he had started the recruiting process for this surgery.
The first person he chose to be on his team is Dr. Xiaoping Ren from China and they found a volunteer patient to perform the procedure. The patient's name is Valery Spiridonov from Russia.
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American Society of Nephrology via Science Daily
Researchers have developed a risk calculator that estimates the risk of kidney failure after donation. Overall risk was low, but black race and male sex were associated with increased risks of developing kidney failure in living kidney donors. Older age was associated with greater kidney failure risk in nonblack donors, but not in in black donors. Higher BMI and a close biological relationship to the recipient were also associated with increased risks of kidney failure.
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European Society of Cardiology via Science Daily
The risk of heart transplant rejection can be reduced by desensitizing patient antibodies, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure. The breakthrough comes on the 50th anniversary of heart transplantation.
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Patient Engagement HIT
Nurses can add an easy-to-implement patient communication strategy to their tool belts, according to a recent study. Research published in the Patient Experience Journal shows that nurses who sit down when communicating with patients yield higher patient satisfaction scores.
The research team developed the strategy, called the Commit to Sit initiative, by looking at evidence-based communication approaches.
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Renal & Urology News
Opioid use before and after a kidney transplant may increase the risk of death and graft loss, investigators reported at the 2017 American Transplant Congress in Chicago. In a study of 75,430 kidney transplant recipients, Krista L. Lentine, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri, and colleagues examined the association between opioid use in the year before and after transplantation and patient and graft survival.
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Medical Xpress
Ten patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease. The findings point to new strategies for increasing the supply of organs for the nation's more than 97,000 patients who are awaiting kidney transplants — often for as many as five or more years.
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American Council on Science and Health
A young man who received a lung transplant four weeks ago following a terrible case of pneumonia that caused his lungs to collapse has died. He is making national headlines because his petition to receive new lungs was initially rejected because he had smoked marijuana.
This will very likely cause outrage, especially since more states are legalizing marijuana. But in a world in which transplantable organs are in short supply, hospitals must make decisions about which patients to prioritize.
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FierceHealthcare
Public health officials are warning hospitals that a drug-resistant fungus is circulating in the United States and has hit several New York and New Jersey hospitals. Candida auris is a dangerous form of yeast, and is resistant to two of three main antifungal drugs; some strains are resistant to all three. A total of 61 cases of the fungus have been reported in the U.S. since 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the vast majority were identified over the last year.
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By Keith Carlson
 In nursing, a professional trajectory can take many forms. A nurse's career can be like a long straightaway across the open plains or a meandering trek across the mountains. No matter how many choices a nurse may have at her fingertips, she may feel like she's nursed herself into the proverbial corner with no idea how to change course. This is a spell that needs to be broken so the nurse can expand her vision and find a more satisfying path.
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