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 Join us in Orlando, FL on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 7 am – 5:30 pm for a face-to-face CCTC and CCTN review course, presented by Sandra Cupples, PhD, RN, FAAN and Linda Ohler, RN, MSN, CCTC, FAAN, FAST. Based on the American Board for Transplant Certification’s test blueprints and the 2nd edition of the Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses, this course includes general transplantation and organ-specific topics as well as information on test-taking strategies.
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CCTC/CCTN Review Course AND Core Curriculum for Transplant Nurses, 2nd Edition
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Donate Life America and the Fresenius Medical Care Foundation recently announced the groups would launch a national, universal living donor kidney registry and at-home testing kit to improve access to living donation.
The Fresenius Medical Care Foundation has donated $500,000 to Donate Life America, marking the beginning of a partnership focused on kidney transplants and living donor access, Fresenius said in a press release. The funding and partnership will create two new initiatives to encourage living donation.
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NTD
A new bill introduced in the UK Parliament would punish British citizens traveling abroad to have a transplant in which the organ was forcibly removed without permission from the donor.
Lord Hunt, a member of the House of Lords, introduced the bill on Oct. 23, which seeks to update rules around organ tourism in the UK.
“People from other countries are paying lots of money to go to China, and almost ordering an organ by order,” Hunt told NTD. “It really is shocking. My bill is a bill to stop people from the UK doing that.”
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
Follow the journeys of kidney transplant patients who transitioned to a different immunosuppression regimen. After talking with their doctors about their experiences with other options, they decided to make a switch.
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USA Today
Surgeons in Boston performed the first full face transplant on an African American patient, the hospital announced.
At 68, Robert Chelsea is also the oldest person to receive a full facial transplant, according to a release from Brigham and Women's Hospital where the surgery was done. He is the 15th person in the United States to undergo the procedure.
“May God bless the donor and his family who chose to donate this precious gift and give me a second chance,” Chelsea said in a statement. “Words cannot describe how I feel. I am overwhelmed with gratitude and feel very blessed to receive such an amazing gift.”
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By Chelsea Adams
In a new report to the president, the National Council on Disability acknowledged that people with disabilities are often barred from receiving organ transplants even though federal law and some states specifically prohibit it. “We live in a world where organ denials are based on disability, rather than suitability,” said Neil Romano, chairman of the National Council on Disability. “Receiving an organ to save your life should never be jeopardized because of fears, myths and stereotypes about disability. Especially not with so many federal laws making that practice illegal.”
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
There are many factors that may put a graft at risk, such as infections, nephrotoxicity, declining adherence, and inadequate immunosuppression. It can be difficult to achieve a balance between overimmunosuppression and underimmunosuppression in kidney transplant patients, putting patients at risk.
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Transplantation
Coronary artery disease is common in lung transplant candidates and may require revascularization before or at the time of their transplant. We reviewed the survival of lung transplant recipients with CAD requiring surgical intervention (CAD-coronary artery bypass grafting) and those who did not at the time of transplant, compared to a cohort with no CAD.
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Oncology Learning Network
Findings from a cohort study of pediatric patients with hepatoblastoma suggest that liver transplant is not significantly associated with improved overall survival compared with liver resection plus current chemotherapy regimens.
“The incidence of hepatoblastoma is increasing, and liver transplant…provides a potential cure for pediatric patients with unresectable hepatoblastoma; however, the use of LT [liver transplant] for hepatoblastoma has not been examined in a modern cohort,” said Jincheng Feng, MD, Institute of Organ Transplantation, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and colleagues.
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AJT
In kidney transplantation, short‐term allograft survival has improved due to improvements in acute rejection episodes without corresponding improvements in long‐term survival. Although current organ allocation algorithms take into account human leukocyte antigen matching to reduce antidonor alloimmune responses, it is likely that genomic variation at non‐HLA loci (ie, non‐HLA donor–recipient [D–R] pair mismatches) play a role in the “non‐self” responses and ultimately affect long‐term allograft survival.
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Clinical Transplantation
Endovascular treatment by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or stent is the first-line treatment for hepatic artery stenosis after liver transplantation, but there are no guidelines to help choose between PTA and stent.
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