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As 2015 comes to a close, the International Transplant Nurses Society would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the ITNS Insider a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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ITNS
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Science
From April 23: A 44-year-old man appeared to be recovering nicely after a double lung transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. A week after the surgery, however, the patient, whose own lungs had been ruined by the inflammatory disease pulmonary sarcoidosis, grew confused and then became delirious. Although a brain scan found nothing wrong, tests showed that the amount of ammonia in his blood had spiked — and continued to rise even after dialysis to remove the toxin. Forty days after his surgery, he died.
Now, a new study implicates bacteria that normally live in the urinary tract as the cause of the man's fatal illness and the deaths of other lung transplant patients. The work suggests a way to treat a rare but deadly complication of organ transplantation and cancer treatment.
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ITNS
From Nov. 19: 
Transplant Nurses Day is April 20, 2016. Celebrate ITNS Transplant Nurses Day by purchasing tote bags, hot/cold tumbler cups, or stylus pens for your staff. View the products and place your order today! Check out all of the Transplant Nurses Day resources on the website and stay tuned for more information about the essay contest!
HealthDay News via Renal & Urology News
From July 23: For patients undergoing kidney transplantation, survival is unaffected by body mass index (BMI), according to a study published online in the American Journal of Transplantation.
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MIT Technology Review
From Aug. 13: With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant, U.S. researchers have been shattering records in xenotransplantation, or between-species organ transplants. The researchers say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for 945 days and also reported the longest-ever kidney swap between these species, lasting 136 days. The experiments used organs from pigs "humanized" with the addition of as many as five human genes, a strategy designed to stop organ rejection.
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Hospitals & Health Networks
From Aug. 27: Nursing is a tough job. Nurses juggle it all — sick patients, worried families and stressed doctors. They log long hours, often going to the hospital when it is still dark outside and leaving when it is dark again. It is not unusual for nurses to be floated to hospital departments where they feel that they haven't received adequate training and are expected to take on the workload of a 20-year veteran.
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Tech Times
From Nov. 12: Here's a tip: If you're an organ donor, try not to die on a weekend.
According to new findings presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week, perfectly good donor kidneys are being thrown into the garbage at an alarming rate when those kidneys are procured over the weekend.
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The Tennessean
From July 16: The nation's top transplant surgeons met three weeks ago in Chicago.
They didn't talk medicine. They argued logistics.
The issue is a controversial plan to address geographic disparities in liver transplants that would shorten wait times in some areas of the country at the expense of others. This committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing has debated for a year the redistricting proposal — one that Vanderbilt University Medical Center opposes.
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Al.com
From Nov. 12: Debbie Lethgo of Stone Mountain, Ga. and Eloise Jenkins of Castleberry had two things in common when they arrived at UAB Hospital: Advanced liver disease and small build.
Because both women were small, they were good candidates for the first split-liver transplant performed in Alabama. The procedure began with two surgeons who spent more than four hours splitting the organ into two parts.
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ITNS
From Sept. 10: 
This handbook is designed as a general reference for care after kidney transplantation. Transplant centers often have different care routines, monitoring guidelines, and immunosuppressive routines following kidney transplant. You can purchase a PDF download (limited to 3 downloads per purchase) of the handbook in the ITNS online store. Review the Table of Contents and purchase your handbook. Members pay only $5!
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Live Science
From July 9: Organ transplants can save lives, but patients sometimes reject their new organs. Now, experiments in mice surprisingly reveal that there may one day be ways to ensure that patients who previously rejected transplants will be able to accept future ones. Organ rejection happens when the immune system sees a transplanted organ as foreign and attacks it.
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