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The ITNS Annual Symposium Planning Committee invites you to present at the Transplant Nursing Symposium, “Transplant Nurses: Leaders in Excellence,” at the Hilton Rosemont Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, IL from 28-30 September 2018. The submission deadline is Wednesday, 18 October 2017 by midnight (CT). Click here to submit an abstract for the Transplant Nursing Symposium in Chicago.
 ITNS is pleased to announce the availability of a $2,500 research grant. The purpose of this grant is to encourage qualified ITNS members to advance the body of transplant knowledge. This grant may be used to support research projects, a systematic review of the literature, a meta-analysis, a quality improvement initiative or a program evaluation project.
Click here for the grant application.
Submit grant applications to the ITNS Research Director: Laura A. Taylor, PhD RN ANEF by e-mail itnstaylorresearch@gmail.com by Sept. 15, 2017.
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Cancer Therapy Advisor
Patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) who undergo post-translational cyclophosphamide-based haploidentical (HAPLO) allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation may achieve similar survival outcomes as HLA-matched sibling donor (SIB) and HLA-matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplantations, and experience a lower rate of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) than MUD, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Liver Transplantation
In 2006, derivation of the donor risk index (DRI) highlighted the importance of donor factors for successful liver transplantation. Over the last decade, the DRI has served as a useful metric of donor quality and has enhanced our understanding of donor factors and their impact upon recipients with hepatitis C virus, those with low Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score, and individuals undergoing retransplantation. DRI has provided the transplant community with a common language for describing donor organ characteristics and has served as the foundation for several tools for organ risk assessment.
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Healio
Researchers from the University of Toronto are transplanting pancreatic islet cells subcutaneously as a treatment for type 1 diabetes, according to a press release from the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
Unlike the abdominal cavity, liver or pancreas, which are considered hostile environments for islet cells, under the skin provides an accessible location that may keep the islets from being damaged.
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Clinical Transplantation
Limited data exists regarding the evaluation and selection of older candidates for transplantation. To help guide the development of program protocols and help define research questions in this area, we surveyed U.S. transplant centers regarding their current practices in the evaluation of older kidney transplant candidates.
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HealthDay News via The Clinical Advisor
Given population obesity trends, the increase in the demand for liver transplantation (LT) for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) noted since 2000 is expected to continue, according to a study published online in Hepatology.
Neehar D. Parikh, MD, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined the temporal trend behind the increase in obesity and NASH-related additions to the LT waitlist in the United States and made projections for future NASH burden on the LT waitlist.
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The Washington Post
His belly swollen, his energy flagging, 45-year-old Jorge Perez Remache waits in his Queens apartment for word that his turn has come to receive a lifesaving liver transplant. Though he has suffered from cirrhosis for 10 years, the chance of that happening is virtually zero.
A thousand miles south in tiny Morven, Ga., Katryna Grisson — equally sick, just three years older and, like Perez Remache, on Medicaid — awaits the same miracle.
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Transplant Infectious Disease
A paucity of data is available about BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) infection after renal transplantation (RTX) in resource-limited countries with a predominantly living-donor, ABO-compatible RTX program. We aimed to assess BKPyV infection in such patients in a public hospital in India.
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News-Medical
Loyola Medicine's solid organ transplant program has reached another major milestone with the successful performance of its first pancreas transplant.
The transplant was performed July 30 on Anthony Law, a 61-year-old Type 1 diabetes patient. Mr. Law had "brittle" diabetes, characterized by extreme, life-threatening swings in blood sugar levels.
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