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HealthDay News via WebMD
Because people who receive a donor kidney are often on immune-suppressing medications, they're at extremely high risk of dying if COVID-19 strikes, a new report warns.
The study, from doctors at Montefiore Medical Center in hard-hit New York City, looked at outcomes for 36 kidney transplant patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between March 16 and April 1.
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American Journal of Transplantation
COVID-19 is impacting transplant programs around the world, and, as the center of the pandemic shifts to the United States, we have to prepare to make decisions about which patients to transplant during times of constrained resources. In this paper, researchers discuss how to transition from the traditional justice vs. utility consideration in organ allocation to a more nuanced allocation scheme based on ethical values that drive decisions in times of absolute scarcity.
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Follow the journeys of kidney transplant patients who transitioned to a different immunosuppression regimen. After talking with their doctors about their experiences with other options, they decided to make a switch.
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Hepatology
The goals of this document are to provide data on what is currently known about COVID‐19, and how it may impact hepatologists and liver transplant providers and their patients. The authors' aim is to provide a template for the development of clinical recommendations and policies to mitigate the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on liver patients and healthcare providers.
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University of Queensland via ScienceDaily
Growth hormone has been identified as playing a key role in reducing inflammation and increasing survival rates following liver surgery.
Researchers at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute investigated how the body's growth hormone assists with liver regeneration in a study using mice. The study demonstrates the important role the HLA-G protein plays in suppressing inflammatory responses.
Dr Brooks said treating liver transplant patients with the HLA-G protein or growth hormone may also help suppress inflammation following surgery.
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When kidney transplants first came into practice in the 1950s, patients with chronic kidney disease could finally picture freedom from the unrelenting routine of blood-cleansing dialysis treatments. Just over a half-century later, demand has completely outstripped supply. The critically ill languish for years on waiting lists, while doctors have little choice but to accept donations of damaged kidneys in a desperate attempt to save lives.
Transplant outcomes are so hard to predict that nephrologist Dr. Darren Yuen, of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, compares it to "spinning a roulette wheel". But recently published findings in JCI Insight are laying the groundwork to potentially revolutionize this dynamic - and empower physicians to eventually reset the gold standard in transplantation protocol.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation via MD Linx
Researchers sought to inscribe their experience using intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in isolated lung transplantation and examine its influence on long-term graft function and survival.
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