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University of Michigan Health Lab
On any given day in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, there might be one or two children hooked up to pumps and artificial lungs keeping them alive. Connected to the machines, these young patients are usually bedridden. Beeps are the soundtrack to their days; a web of wires forms one of their earliest views.
That all could change with implantable, simpler artificial lung systems that can support patients while they play outside or eat dinner at their families’ dining room tables.
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MD Magazine
Patients who are infected with hepatitis C virus prior to receiving a kidney transplant face a higher risk of being diagnosed with diabetes in the years following the procedure, according to new research.
However, the same study found no such association between preoperative Hepatitis B virus and new-onset diabetes after transplantation.
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
Only about a third of long-term care nurses are receiving a bonus, merit-based raise or cost-of living increase annually, according to a new survey.
Elite Learning’s 2018 nationwide nursing salary survey included more than 22,000 responses from nurses in a variety of care settings.
Responses from long-term care nurses indicated that “the biggest thing is that they are underpaid,” said Maria P. Senior, Director of Operations, Advance Healthcare Division, Elite Continuing Education.
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Healio
Black patients were more likely to be waitlisted with acute liver failure, require status-1 listing and undergo liver transplantation than white patients, according to a presentation at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting.
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Portland Patch
Ken Zuckerbrot writes, "Last year, I won the lottery. I received a new kidney. There were about 100,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney at the time — about double what the number had been a decade before — which meant about five percent of them would die. That's about 13 people every day.
The number since then has grown."
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American College of Surgeons via EurekAlert!
Patients with advanced liver disease who accept liver transplants donated by people over age 70 reduce their long-term risk of death significantly compared with similar patients who decline the same offer. That survival benefit remains across the range of Model for End-stage Liver Disease scores, according to new research findings presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2018.
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Science Trends
Transplantation is in some regards the “end of the line” therapy in medical care as transplantation specialists step in to replace entire organs after other interventions to preserve or restore function have failed. In lung transplantation, donor organs give patients with end-stage lung disease the capacity to breathe better, increase levels of physical activity and reclaim their independence. When successful, lung transplantation is life-changing in more ways than one can imagine.
Unfortunately, donor organs remain a scarce resource as there are fewer available organs than people in need.
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