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Congratulations ITNS Award Winners!
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Transplant Nursing Excellence
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Save the Date for 2014!
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If you weren't able to attend the symposium this year, we hope you'll save the date for 2014! Join us at the JW Marriott in Houston, Texas, USA from 27-29 September 2014 for "One World of Caring." The 23rd Annual ITNS Symposium will be held near the "Medical Mile." Houston is home to the Texas Medical center, the largest medical center in the world.
The call for abstracts for the 23rd Annual ITNS Symposium is now open!
Submit your abstract before the 15 January 2014 deadline.
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A novel approach to organ transplantation
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With a critical shortage worldwide of organs for transplantation, scientists around the globe are looking at a variety of ways to address the problem, from methods of improving renal function so a transplant becomes unnecessary to designing artificial organs.
Another promising solution showing plenty of potential is 3D printing.
Man's kidney donation is 'missing link' for 3 transplants
Yahoo Canada
When Ted Bartling, a rocket scientist from Utah, decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, he knew he'd potentially be saving one person's life. What he didn't know was that he'd be saving three people's lives.
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Wait list mortality higher for female heart transplant candidates
Healio
Female heart transplant candidates have a higher risk for one-year morbidity and mortality while on the transplantation waiting list compared with male candidates, according to a report presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America.
Heart study aims to identify at-risk patients after pump implant
Medical Xpress
Emory researchers are exploring the use of echocardiography, an established non-invasive method to view the heart without radiation, to help identify patients at risk for right ventricular heart failure after implantation of a left ventricular assist device.
Predictors of death, transplantation identified for children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Healio
Children with inherited metabolic diseases or with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy combined with other cardiomyopathy phenotypes appear to have a worse prognosis and greater risk for death or heart transplant, according to the findings in a new report.
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Fat transplants could be less risky than organ transplants for metabolic disease treatment
MedCity News
Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine are working to help stop maple syrup urine disease by using fat transplants.
Chris Lynch, a professor of cellular and molecular physiology at Penn State College of Medicine, worked on a study of the tissue transplant and said they were working on inborn errors of metabolism, not obesity or diabetes.
Finding may help doctors pinpoint likelihood of kidney transplant failure
HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Kidney transplant patients who develop a specific type of antibody response may be at particular risk of having the organ fail within a few years, a new study suggests. Experts said the results could help pinpoint those who are at the highest risk of a transplant failure — and possibly aid in finding a good donor organ for some patients.
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