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At a transportation summit, four national transplantation organizations — including the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Society of Transplantation, the United Network for Organ Sharing and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations — developed a set of recommendations to ensure the safety of organ recovery teams.
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Endpoints News
Since the 1960s, cold storage emerged as the preferred method for organ preservation for transplantation, but it didn’t tick all the boxes — limitations such as the risk of early graft dysfunction still contribute to chronic complications. So an upgrade was in order. Instead of flushing and preserving the procured organ at roughly freezing temperatures, new technology actually keeps the organs warm and toasty for transplantation in a bid to improve organ accessibility and improve transplantation outcomes.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Scientists read with great interest the report by Fernandéz‐Ruiz and colleagues on the outcome of 18 transplant recipients with COVID‐19, showing a higher case fatality rate than that reported in the general population.
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News-Medical
Due to the shortage of donated organs, thousands to millions of people with end-stage diseases will remain on waiting lists for years in the hopes that they will one day receive this life-saving procedure. Although medical examiners and coroners have legal permission to donate the organs of a decedent’s body, the reality of this process is often complicated by competing interests that exist between forensic investigators and organ donation networks.
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
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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Skin cancer and skin infection are significantly more likely in solid organ transplant patients compared to patients with normal immune system function. Transplant recipients have a 60-100-fold increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma, the second most common skin cancer in the United States, compared to patients with normal immune systems. The risk of basal cell carcinoma, the most common skin cancer, is increased about 10-fold while the risk for melanoma is 3.5 times that of immune competent patients. When solid organ transplant patients get skin cancers or infections, their risk of serious complications and death is significantly elevated.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Solid organ transplant recipients who are cytomegalovirus seronegative and receive seronegative donor organs have a small but currently unquantified risk of both transfusion‐transmitted CMV and community‐acquired CMV.
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
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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Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care via EurekAlert!
In complex surgery, is there a correlation between the volume of services provided per hospital and the quality of treatment results? This is the question addressed in eight commissions on minimum volumes that the Federal Joint Committee awarded to the Institute of Quality and Efficiency in Health Care. The IQWiG report is now available for the fifth intervention to be tested, kidney transplantations.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
The demand for donated human hearts far exceeds the number available. Xenotransplantation of genetically modified porcine organs provides an alternative. In 2000, an Advisory Board of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation set the benchmark for commencing clinical cardiac xenotransplantation as consistent 60 percent survival of non-human primates after life-supporting porcine heart transplantations.
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