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Country of the Month: Belgium
Transplant Center: University Hospital Ghent
With around 3,000 patients per day and over 6,000 staff, the University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) is one of the largest and most specialized hospitals in Flanders, Belgium.
Patients (adults and children) can be offered a full range of highly specialized, high-quality care for which the hospital has extensive facilities for one-day visits or overnight stays.
The hospital is integrated into the Ghent University.
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AJT via Wiley Online Library
In accordance with the National Organ Transplant Act and Department of Health and Human Services’ Final Rule, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients publicly releases biannual program‐specific reports that include analyses of transplant centers’ risk‐adjusted waitlist mortality, organ acceptance ratios, transplant rates, and graft and patient survival.
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Renal & Urology News
Clostridioides difficile infection is highly prevalent among solid organ transplant recipients and develops early in the post-transplant period, according to data presented at the 2019 American Transplant Congress in Boston. CDI in this population is usually severe and associated with a high rate of recurrence and increased mortality.
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Nephrology News & Issues via Healio
In the past three decades, survival rates of both allograft and patients following kidney transplant have improved, according to a speaker at the American Transplant Congress.
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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery via ScienceDirect
High-risk donors for patients with end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease awaiting transplantation represent an opportunity for access to more organs and therefore can significantly decrease the waiting list mortality. The objective of this study is to investigate the use of hepatitis B virus core antibody positive or hepatitis C virus seropositive donors for pediatric heart transplantation.
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Nephrology News & Issues via Healio
A study by Drexel University researchers indicates the risk of more hospitalizations and death for kidney transplant patients increases for patients asked to lose 10 percent or more of their weight prior to the transplant.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital via ScienceDaily
Brigham surgical teams have performed face transplants for people who have suffered from severe facial injuries. The surgery holds the promise of improving physical and mental health for patients who have been severely disfigured and have no other treatment options. In the New England Journal of Medicine, a Brigham team presents the longer-term outcomes for six patients who had been followed for up to five years after surgery, representing the largest cohort of patients in the U.S. Overall, patients had a robust return of motor and sensory function of their face, and all but one patient reported improvements in quality of life.
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AASLD via Wiley Online Library
Colorectal cancer screening with colonoscopy is commonly used in patients who are candidates for liver transplantation. We initiated this study to define the risk‐benefit ratio of performing screening colonoscopy in this population. A retrospective observational study of all consecutive patients undergoing colonoscopy during pre–liver transplantation screening between 2004 and 2017 was conducted.
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Infection and Drug Resistance via Dove Press
Cytomegalovirus is a major cause of morbidity in immunocompromized hosts, including allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant or solid organ transplant recipients. In healthy individuals, primary infection with CMV is often asymptomatic, or it manifests with a self-limited febrile illness.
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