Dramatically increased fees tied to organs that cross service-area boundaries The newly implemented liver allocation acuity circles (AC) policy may have leveled the playing field for organ acquisition and distribution, but it...
The first immunosuppressant approved for this population The FDA has approved tacrolimus in combination with other immunosuppressants for the prevention of organ rejection in adults and kids receiving lung transplantation. It is...
More accurate prediction of recurrence risk may expand liver transplantation to previously ineligible HCC patients Compared with currently accepted hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) selection tools, a new tool that incorporates a...
No increased risk of allograft failure in patients who discontinued treatment The use of long-term corticosteroid therapy after kidney transplant may be unnecessary, according to results from a prospective multicenter trial.In...
Resumption of cardiac activity following life support withdrawal not unusual Even in 2021, determining the exact moment of death is challenging and can affect not just one but many lives, as patients await life-saving organs...
Women with cirrhosis displayed worse frailty scores despite similar liver disease severity Women with decompensated liver cirrhosis awaiting transplant had worse frailty scores than men — despite similar scores on a...
Also associated with improved outcomes Supplemental oxygen delivered along with hypothermic machine perfusion (HMPO2) during donor kidney preservation is easy to do, safe, and adds little additional cost compared with HMP alone...
Experts call for reconsideration of 2018 policy change Changes in the U.S. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart allocation policy in 2018 appear to have resulted in improved wait list times, as well as reductions in...
The goal of lung transplantation is to improve quality of life (QOL) and extend survival for patients with advanced lung disease. The degree to which individual lung transplant recipients achieve these goals is highly variable....
This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2020 virtual Annual...
Study findings encourage aggressive use of liver allografts Outcomes among liver transplant recipients who received allografts considered “marginal” approached those of benchmark allografts in a follow-up study...
New research was presented at AATS 2020, the virtual Annual Meeting of the American Association...
