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A young woman whose lungs were damaged due to COVID-19 has successfully received a double lung transplant, surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago announced on June 11.
The hospital said it believes this is the first time such an operation on a COVID-19 patient has been performed successfully in the United States, and it offers new hope for patients with extensive lung damage from coronavirus infection.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Universal screening of potential organ donors and recipients for SARS‐CoV‐2 is now recommended prior to transplantation in the United States during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Challenges have included limited testing capacity, short windows of organ viability, brief lead time for notification of potential organ recipients, and the need to test lower respiratory donor specimens to optimize sensitivity.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Cardiac cancer that arises from or involves the heart can present as heart failure, chest pain, stroke or another thromboembolic event. Although patients with CC have limited treatment options, in other organ cancers such as hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transplant improves five-year overall survival in carefully selected patients. For CC, however, the benefit of replacing the cancerous heart is uncertain because one-year survival is generally estimated around 50 percent after this rare operation.
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Prior studies have suggested women might have higher mortality of cirrhosis of the liver than men. Women are also less likely to receive liver transplantation.
But the research was unclear. A comprehensive new Northwestern Medicine study shows women are not more likely to die of liver cirrhosis than men, demonstrating that this chronic liver disease affects both men and women similarly.
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Healio
Providing virtual postoperative follow-up for living kidney donors may be an effective alternative to traditional clinic care, according to a poster presented at the virtual American Transplant Congress. “LKD has been declining in the U.S. in recent years, and there is evidence to suggest that this is partly due to the inconvenience of the surgery and follow-up care needed,” Shelby Allen, MD, of the Medical University of South Carolina, and colleagues wrote. “New web-based technology has allowed the development of virtual clinic visits between patients and health care providers without the patient having to physically travel to their appointments.”
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Renal & Urology News
Potassium binders may help solid-organ transplant recipients control hyperkalemia over the short term, according to two small case series presented at the American Transplant Society 2020 virtual congress.
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Clinical Transplantation
Previous studies have shown that adult congenital heart disease is associated with high early post-transplant mortality but improved long-term survival in comparison to the overall heart transplant population. Researchers aimed to evaluate survival outcomes of ACHD in adult transplant recipient patients as specifically compared to ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy groups.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Post-lung transplantation progressive chronic kidney disease is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Comorbidities and cotreatments, and post-LTx medical complications, including acute kidney injury, are associated with an increased risk for subsequent CKD development. However, among the several risk factors for post-LTx CKD development, pre-transplant renal function plays a key role.
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Pediatric Transplantation
Living donors are preferred over DDs for renal transplantation in children due to superior GS. Oslo University Hospital has never restricted living donation by upper age. The aim of this study was to investigate long‐term outcomes using grandparents compared to PLD.
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