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Genomics in Transplant: The Universal Code for Care
Friday, 15 November - Monday, 18 November 2019
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The Health Resources and Services Administration’s Workplace Partnership for Life (WPFL) Hospital Organ Donation Campaign recently recognized more than 1,200 hospitals and transplant centers, including 314 small and rural hospitals, for their efforts to promote organ donation awareness and registration. Hospitals earned platinum, gold, silver, and bronze recognition based on the number of outreach activities they implemented and donor registrations they facilitated between October 2017 and April 2018.
The Campaign unites hospitals, healthcare associations, organ procurement organizations, and Donate Life America affiliates in this national initiative to increase the number of people who register as organ, eye, and tissue donors. Campaign participants added nearly 23,700 donor registrations to state registries and the Puerto Rico registry, which includes enrollments from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Overall, hospital participation in the Campaign increased by 9 percent, including a 10 percent increase in small/rural hospital participation.
ITNS is a national partner in the campaign and proud to support this national initiative, which has enrolled more than 443,430 organ donors since its launch in June 2011. We encourage more hospitals, state hospital associations, and donation organizations across the country to join this important effort to help increase donor registrations.
To learn more about the WPFL Hospital Organ Donation Campaign click here.
HealthDay News via Renal & Urology News
For transplant providers, the second most influential factor determining a patient's suitability for transplantation is social support, according to a report published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Keren Ladin, PhD, from Tufts University of Medford, Mass., and colleagues examined how transplant providers weigh the importance of social support for kidney recipients.
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Healio
Unrelated cord blood transplantation served as a valuable curative option for patients with refractory severe aplastic anemia who had no matched related donors, according to findings from a phase 2 study.
“Outcomes remain poor for severe aplastic anemia patients refractory to first-line immunosuppressive therapy without matched unrelated donors. Recent use of eltrombopag [Promacta, Novartis] shows blood count improvements (40% of cases), but most refractory patients remain unresponsive to eltrombopag and other second-line treatments, exposing them to life-threatening complications,” Regis Peffault de Latour, MD, PhD, said.
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HealthDay News via Monthly Prescribing Reference
Virtual assistant programs like Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa are not yet in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), warns an article published in Medical Economics. While it is tempting for providers to employ the technology for scheduling or note taking with a simple voice command, these technologies need additional advancements and protections to ensure that sensitive patient data are safe.
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Pulmonology Advisor
Patients who receive lung transplants during an acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have a significantly lower survival rate compared with patients who have stable IPF, according to a recent study published in CHEST.
A total of 89 patients with IPF were listed for lung transplantation; 52 of whom received transplants during stable IPF and 37 of whom were hospitalized because of an acute exacerbation of IPF. Of these 37 patients, 28 received transplants and 9 died before transplantation.
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BioEdge
While medical factors are part of the eligibility assessment for organ transplantation candidates in the United States, “social” considerations are also taken into account when evaluating patients.
Current guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Policy (CMS) and professional societies state that doctors should consider the “social support” of patients when assessing their eligibility for organ transplantation.
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By Chelsea Adams
Heart transplants survive longer in mice with genetically enhanced DEPTOR, a regulatory protein in immune cells. The study was conducted at Boston Children's Hospital and published in the July 3 issue of the American Journal of Transplantation.
In the experiment, mice that received heart transplantations but no immunosuppressive drugs survived an average of seven days. However, mice treated with genetically enhanced DEPTOR activity in their T cells survived an average of 35 days.
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URO Today
Clinical studies have demonstrated that, after renal transplantation (TX), testosterone deficiency (TD) at the time of the procedure is independently associated with lower survival of the patient and graft. However, data between TD and the functional CAG polymorphism of the androgen receptor promoter (AR) are discordant. We investigated the prevalence of TD and its association with body composition, biochemical parameters, the Aging Males' Symptoms rating scale (AMS) domains and AR polymorphism.
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HealthLeaders Media
Just three years ago, the nursing unit that nurse manager Lincy M. Philip, MSN, RN-BC, oversees at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, was in dire straits.
Among the challenges was a move to a newly designed unit, resulting in challenges that disrupted workflows and teamwork. Along with the move came higher-acuity patients, but not the additional staff to care for them.
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