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Special Pharmacy Times
Patients who received lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) were cured after undergoing antiviral drug therapy, findings from a pilot trial conducted at the University of Pennsylvania show.
The results may expand the strategies for increasing organs available to the more than 97,000 US patients who are awaiting kidney transplants, according to an April 30 news release from Penn Medicine. Currently, at least 500 kidneys are discarded every year because the donors had HCV.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Solid organ transplant recipients have an elevated incidence of thyroid cancer. We evaluated a wide range of potential risk factors in a cohort of 229,300 U.S. solid organ transplant recipients linked with 15 stage/regional cancer registries (1987-2012). Incidence rate ratios (IRRs) were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, transplanted organ, year of transplant, and time since transplant. Hazards ratios (HRs) for death and/or graft failure were adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, transplanted organ, and year of transplant.
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CNBC
Nursing has never been an easy job, but with staffing shortages and patients piling up, the gig is getting tougher across the country.
Navicent Health in the small community Macon, Georgia, is the second-largest hospital in the state. Located just an hour outside of Atlanta, the hospital has more than 600 acute-care beds and 1,900 nurses. But attracting and retaining qualified staff has proven difficult, leaving Navicent with a shortage of over 150 nurses at a time when the aging population is creating myriad headwinds for the industry.
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Medical Xpress
People who have received organ transplants are at higher risk of developing and dying of cancer than the general population. Yet their rates of cancer screening do not meet existing guidelines, a new study has found.
The study, published online in the American Journal of Transplantation, examined the health records of 6,392 patients who had organ transplants in Ontario between 1997 and 2010.
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American Journal of Transplantation
In the summer of 2015, 3 unrelated solid organ transplant recipients had meningoencephalitis suggestive of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in Phoenix, Arizona. Testing was inconclusive but was later confirmed as St. Louis encephalitis (SLE). We retrospectively reviewed clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcomes of these transplant recipients. Common symptoms were fever, rigors, diarrhea, headache, and confusion.
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Healio
Fracture after renal transplantation may be predicted by lower serum phosphorus levels and declining femoral neck T-scores, according to findings published in Clinical Endocrinology.
“Peripheral fractures affecting sites rich in cortical bone are common following renal transplantation and, currently, no consensus guidelines exist regarding optimal prevention, screening and management of bone health following renal transplantation,” the researchers wrote. “This is the first study to demonstrate that lower serum phosphorus levels post-renal transplantation had the strongest association with fracture.”
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Medscape (free login required)
Thirteen percent of individuals of African ancestry express two variant copies of the gene encoding apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) that has been associated with an increased risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the general population. Limited studies suggest that the survival of transplanted kidneys from donors expressing two APOL1 risk alleles is inferior to that of kidneys from donors with zero or one risk allele.
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American Journal of Transplantation
We performed a prospective trial to assess the feasibility of real-time central molecular assessment of kidney transplant biopsies from 10 North American and European centers. Biopsies taken one day to 34 years post-transplant were stabilized in RNAlater, couriered overnight at ambient temperature to the central laboratory, and processed (29 hour workflow) using microarrays to assess T cell-mediated and antibody-mediated rejection (TCMR, ABMR).
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Health Affairs Blog
Beginning in the early 1970s, career-oriented and largely female baby boomers embraced the nursing profession in unprecedented numbers following large increases in health care spending after the introduction of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. By 1990, baby-boomer registered nurses (RNs) numbered nearly one million and comprised about two-thirds of the RN workforce. As these RNs aged over the next two decades, they accumulated substantial knowledge and clinical experience.
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Liver Transplantation
Hepatic steatosis develops after liver transplant in 30 percent of adults, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease in non-transplanted children. However, post-transplant steatosis has been minimally studied in pediatric liver transplant recipients. Researchers explored the prevalence, persistence and association with chronic liver damage of hepatic steatosis in these children.
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