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Happy Holidays from ITNS!
Our offices will be closed on Friday, Dec. 22 and Monday, Dec. 25.
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 ITNS is pleased to congratulate Nathalie Duerinckx on obtaining her doctoral degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Academic Center for Nursing and Midwifery.
The title of Dr. Duerinckx’s dissertation is: The Dark Clouds that Surround Heart Transplantation: Depressive Symptoms and Smoking.
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Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas recently announced the first birth after a uterus transplant in the United States. The successful pregnancy with the transplanted uterus and subsequent birth of a healthy baby boy raises several interesting regulatory questions about the future of uterine transplantation and its potential as a growing area of assisted reproduction.
The Dallas baby is not the first successful birth after uterine transplantation.
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Transplantation
When a deceased-donor kidney is offered to a waitlisted candidate, the decision to accept or decline the organ relies primarily upon a practitioner’s experience and intuition. Such decisions must achieve a delicate balance between estimating the immediate benefit of transplantation and the potential for future higher-quality offers. However, the current experience-based paradigm lacks scientific rigor and is subject to the inaccuracies that plague anecdotal decision-making.
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By Keith Carlson
 In a politically charged era when the future of American healthcare is wholly uncertain, nurses must honor the ANA Code of Ethics as powerful advocates for vulnerable populations and the rights of all patients. Whether it's access to nonjudgmental healthcare for transgender patients, the lack of high-quality primary care in the inner city or disparities faced by communities of color, nurses are on the front lines of the intersection between care delivery and social justice.
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The Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report
Charles Grugan's drug addiction took a toll on his family.
They tried to help him, but on Oct. 12, 2011, Grugan 33, overdosed on heroin. He never recovered.
While on life support in a regional hospital, doctors approached his family and showed them his driver's license.
Grugan had made the decision to be an organ donor when he was 18 years old.
His heart, liver and kidneys were successfully transplanted into three people.
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Liver Transplantation
Platelets interact with tumor cells and promote metastasis. The importance of platelets in posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence is unclear. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the association between preoperative platelet count (PLT) and HCC recurrence after living donor liver transplantation.
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Medscape (free login required)
I've been a nurse for nearly 30 years and worked in a variety of settings. My current job has been a unique blend of my past nursing roles (such as clinic, emergency department, and parish nurse) along with elements from other specialties: health educator, case manager, counselor, safety manager, physical therapist, lactation consultant, game show host, and even "mom."
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MD Magazine
The American Society of Transplantation has reached consensus on how treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) with direct acting antivirals (DAAs) could enable organ transplantations to HCV naive recipients and potentially save the lives of many on transplant waitlists. Organ transplantation between HCV-positive donor and recipient is already accepted practice, and the consensus conference report lead author Josh Levitsky, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL and co-authors explained the purpose of the January 2017 conference.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Incompatible living donor kidney transplantation (ILDKT) has been established as an effective option for end-stage renal disease patients with willing but HLA-incompatible living donors, reducing mortality and improving quality of life. Depending on antibody titer, ILDKT can require highly resource-intensive procedures, including intravenous immunoglobulin, plasma exchange, and/or cell-depleting antibody treatment, as well as protocol biopsies and donor-specific antibody testing. This study sought to compare the cost and Medicare reimbursement, exclusive of organ acquisition payment, for ILDKT (n = 926) with varying antibody titers to matched compatible transplants (n = 2762) performed between 2002 and 2011.
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