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New England Chapter of ITNS Fall Meeting
When: Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015
Where: Bertucci’s Restaurant, 4054 Mystic Valley Parkway, Medford, MA 02155
Time: 7:00 p.m.
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Transplant Exam Study Session
Presented by: Linda Ohler, MSN, RN, CCTC, FAAN and Sandra Cupples, PhD, RN, FAAN, authors of Transplantation Nursing Secrets and Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses
Location: Kaiser Permanente, 11921-D Bournefield Way, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904
Date: Nov. 7, 2015 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Cost: $25 for current ITNS International and Local Chapter Members, $150 for Non-members
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3-D printing aids heart transplant in US
BreakingNews.ie
Surgeons in the U.S. have carried out a successful heart transplant on a five-year-old girl using 3D printing to help them.
They used a model of her heart to work out exactly how they needed to operate cutting down the length of the procedure.
It is thought it could increase a patient's chance of survival in future.
Genome wide testing may make transplantation more personalized
Medical Research
Genetic studies in transplantation have been plagued by small samples and very complex phenotypes/outcomes of patients. Transplanted individuals are typically on potent immunosuppression drugs for the rest of their lives, as they have 3.5 million to 10 million variants difference from an unrelated transplanted donor organ. Such populations would certainly benefit from large well-powered genetic studies but only 3 transplant genome-wide genotyping studies comprising a few hundred individuals have been published.
New formula predicts liver volume for live donor liver transplantation
Healio
A new formula developed by researchers in Switzerland and Japan was accurate in calculating standard liver volume in recipients of living donor liver transplantation, according to study data published in the Journal of Hepatology. To create this formula, liver volumes of 180 Japanese donor candidates from a tertiary care Japanese hospital between March 2006 and December 2013 and 160 Swiss patients with normal livers treated at a tertiary care Swiss hospital between January 2001 and April 2014 were analyzed by researchers.
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Ovarian tissue transplant can help some women have kids after cancer treatment
Health Day
Cancer patients who have ovarian tissue removed and stored for later transplantation have a chance at a successful pregnancy, a new study finds.
Powerful chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer can impair a woman's fertility. This new study shows that ovarian tissue transplants are safe and effective and pose little risk of the cancer coming back, the Danish researchers said.
Britain to see its first womb transplants as procedure gets official approval
Tech Times
Ten women in the United Kingdom will get womb transplants as part of a clinical trial approved by the country's Health Research Authority following successful procedures in Sweden.
Doctors at Imperial College London have been given the go-ahead to carry out the transplants as part of the clinical trial, which, if successful, could see Britain's first babies born from womb transplants in late 2017 or 2018.
Scientists develop fast-pumping artificial foam heart
Newsweek
Scientists have developed a soft, foam-based artificial heart which can pump at a faster rate than any similar alternatives.
The proof-of-concept heart is made of flexible, porous silicone and is an example of soft robotics, which move by allowing compressed air to flow through the material, according to New Scientist magazine. Many of the current artificial hearts approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which tests medical devices, are hard devices that are attached to external pumps, such as the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart.
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Probiotics reduce rate of infection after liver transplant
Doctors Lounge
Liver transplant recipients have a lower rate of infection with receipt of prebiotics and probiotics before surgery, according to a meta-analysis published in the issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Tarek Sawas, M.D., from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis to examine the impact of prebiotics and probiotics on infections in patients receiving liver transplants.
Study: Burnout impacts transplant nurses
EurekAlert!
More than half of nurses who work with organ transplant patients in the United States experience high levels of emotional exhaustion, a primary sign of burnout, according to a study published by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital.
In addition, 52 percent of the nurses surveyed reported feeling low levels of personal accomplishment in their life-saving work, according to findings published recently in Progress in Transplantation, the official journal of NATCO.
Vitebsk surgeons make first aorta transplantation
ET
The operation was made on a 75-year-old patient. Vitebsk surgeons applied the technology developed by Cardiology center. Such complicated operations have been performed only in Minsk.
Nikolai Loiko, surgeon of Cardiosurgery Department of Vitebsk Clinical Hospital: "The operation is unique. It took us 4.5 hours to perform it. Now we are performing the rehabilitation treatment."
Liver transplantation prolongs DFS in pediatric HBL, HCC
Healio
Liver transplantation combined with chemotherapy provided long-term DFS in pediatric patients with advanced hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, according to the results of a retrospective analysis. Favorable outcomes with transplantation persisted even among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) larger than Milan and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) criteria for transplant eligibility, results also showed.
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