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Liver transplantation may benefit certain patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases

Liver transplantation may extend OS compared with portal vein embolization and liver resection for selected patients with advanced colorectal cancer liver metastases and a left-sided primary tumor, according to a study in...

source: Healio

Long-term mortality risk stratification of liver transplant recipients

Survival of liver transplant recipients beyond one year since transplantation is compromised by an increased risk of cancer, cardiovascular events, infection, and graft failure. Few clinical tools are available to identify patients...

source: The Lancet Digital Health

COVID disease damage leading to 'completely new category' of organ transplants

COVID-19-related transplants are surging as hospitals grapple with a growing subset of patients whose organs — most often hearts and lungs — are "basically destroyed by the virus," said Dr. Jonathan Orens, a lung transplant...

source: NBC News

The differential impact of size mismatch in live versus deceased donor kidney transplant

The impact of weight mismatch between donors and recipients undergoing living donor kidney transplant versus weight matched deceased donor kidney transplant is not established. Researchers used multivariable Cox proportional...

source: Clinical Transplantation

Intermediate-term outcomes of heart transplantation for cardiac amyloidosis in the current era

Cardiac amyloidosis has been historically noted with poor outcomes after heart transplant. However, strict patient selection, appropriate multi‐organ transplant and aggressive post‐transplant therapy can result...

source: Clinical Transplantation

COVID-19 mortality among kidney transplant candidates is strongly associated with social determinants of health

The COVID‐19 pandemic has affected all portions of the global population. However, many factors have been shown to be particularly associated with COVID‐19 mortality, including demographic characteristics,...

source: American Journal of Transplantation

Cancer screening in solid organ transplant recipients: A focus on screening liver, lung, and kidney recipients for cancers related to the transplanted organ

Over the last few decades, the life expectancy of solid organ transplant recipients has improved significantly. With SOTR living longer, more recipients are dying from cancer. There is...

source: Transplantation

COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: A national cohort study from Sweden

Solid organ transplant recipients run a high risk for adverse outcomes from COVID‐19, with reported mortality around 19 percent. Researchers retrospectively reviewed all known Swedish SOT recipients with RT‐PCR confirmed...

source: American Journal of Transplantation

How artificial intelligence might change the way kidney transplant patients are treated

A Halifax kidney specialist has teamed up with computer scientists at Dalhousie University to use artificial intelligence to estimate how long a kidney transplant will last. Transplants are life-changing for patients, but...

source: CBC News

America's transformative new organ donation rule goes into effect over objections from monopolistic contractors

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has confirmed to the Project On Government Oversight that the most transformative rule in more than 35 years of providing oversight for federal contractors recovering...

source: POGO

Reforming and improving organ transplant systems will save lives, taxpayer dollars

Every day, 33 people — disproportionately people of color — die in the U.S. as they wait for organ transplants. Most of these deaths, and the suffering that precedes it, are preventable. Given that COVID-19 causes...

source: STAT

Update on CMV management in transplant patients

As one of the most common opportunistic infections in immunocompromised people, cytomegalovirus is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, and it continues to represent a management challenge for solid-organ transplant and hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients....

source: Infectious Disease Special Edition

COVID-19 infection in a pediatric kidney transplant population

Researchers performed a retrospective cohort study of a pediatric kidney transplant population at a New York transplant center. Findings suggest that pediatric kidney transplant recipients are at risk for development of COVID‐19 infection....

source: Pediatric Transplantation

Reverse-order heart-liver transplant helps prevent rejection for certain patients

All too often, patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a much higher risk of death while waiting for suitable organs they are less likely to reject....

source: Mayo Clinic via EurekAlert!

The impact of the 2017 kidney allocation policy change on simultaneous liver kidney utilization and outcomes

Historically in the United States, kidneys for simultaneous liver kidney candidates were allocated with livers, prioritizing SLK recipients over much of the kidney waiting list. A 2017 change in policy delineated...

source: Liver Transplantation

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Study shows many unaware that racial disparities exist on kidney transplant waitlists

Liver transplantation may benefit certain patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases

Long-term mortality risk stratification of liver transplant recipients

COVID disease damage leading to 'completely new category' of organ transplants

The differential impact of size mismatch in live versus deceased donor kidney transplant

Intermediate-term outcomes of heart transplantation for cardiac amyloidosis in the current era

COVID-19 mortality among kidney transplant candidates is strongly associated with social determinants of health

Cancer screening in solid organ transplant recipients: A focus on screening liver, lung, and kidney recipients for cancers related to the transplanted organ

COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: A national cohort study from Sweden

How artificial intelligence might change the way kidney transplant patients are treated

America's transformative new organ donation rule goes into effect over objections from monopolistic contractors

Reforming and improving organ transplant systems will save lives, taxpayer dollars

Update on CMV management in transplant patients

COVID-19 infection in a pediatric kidney transplant population

Reverse-order heart-liver transplant helps prevent rejection for certain patients

The impact of the 2017 kidney allocation policy change on simultaneous liver kidney utilization and outcomes

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