Science Daily - Heart Disease

MAY 16, 2024

In the United States, about 30-40% of donor hearts aren't considered for transplant due to inadequate function in the donor. This leads to a drop in the number of donated hearts that are available to be matched with someone who needs a heart transplant.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Heart transplant patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience post-surgical complications and die within five years than patients who live in more advantaged areas, even when those patients were transplanted at topnotch high-volume hospitals.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 10, 2024

"Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health performs first pediatric heart transplant in decades, reviving program and becoming only center in state."

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HCPLive

MAY 26, 2024

The phase 2 NOBLE trial shows pegcetacoplan reduces disease activity in post-transplant C3G and IC-MPGN, with benefits persisting through the 40-week double-blind period.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 10, 2024

Younger age at the time of kidney transplantation, faster progression to end-stage renal disease, a history of kidney transplantation, and no induction therapy were associated with IgAN recurrence, which was linked to poorer graft survival.

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HCPLive

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Liver-related mortality in the US increased by nearly 20% from 2018, with lower transplant rates observed in states with the greatest mortality.

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HCPLive

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More than half of patients who received a pancreas transplant alone experienced >50% decline in eGFR, had eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73 m2, and/or received a kidney transplant 10 years after their initial pancreas transplant.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Kidney transplantation from donors with HIV to recipients with HIV (HIV D+/R+) is an emerging practice that has shown substantial clinical benefit. Sustained HIV superinfection, whereby a transplant recipient acquires a new strain of HIV from their organ donor, is a theoretical risk, which might increase chances of viral failure.

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American College of Cardiology

OCTOBER 11, 2024

What is the prevalence and impact of recurrent rejection (RR) on cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and graft loss after pediatric heart transplant?

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Patients can develop de novo malignancies following orthotopic heart transplantation. However, vascular tumors are not commonly described in this population.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

MAY 2, 2024

Lung transplantation has become the definitive treatment for end stage respiratory disease. Numbers and survival rates have increased over the past decade, with transplant recipients living longer and with gre.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Findings suggest segregated residential and transplant center neighborhoods contribute to racial disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

MARCH 1, 2024

Long-term organ transplant survival remains suboptimal, and life-long immunosuppression predisposes transplant recipients to an increased risk of infection, malignancy, and kidney toxicity. We showed selective and sustainable Treg expansion by mIL-2 in 2 murine models of skin transplantation.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 22, 2024

Geovanni Faddoul, MD, discusses findings from his recent study examining the impact of induction and maintenance therapy on IgAN recurrence, graft survival, and mortality in kidney transplantation.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.

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HCPLive

MARCH 19, 2024

Iron deficiency, independent of anemia, may be a potentially modifiable target to improve patient-reported outcomes after kidney transplantation.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mitochondrial transplantation provides a novel methodology for rescue of cell viability and cell function following ischemia-reperfusion injury and applications for other pathologies are expanding. In this review we present our methods and acquired data and evidence accumulated to support the use of mitochondrial transplantation.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These donor-derived env sequences were amplified from recipient urine, urine-derived renal epithelial cells, and plasma between 12 and 96 hours after transplant and remained detectable up to 16 days after transplant. years after transplantation as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Heart transplant patient Eddie Garcia was "feeling like a million bucks" one day in the summer of 2021. He had just gotten back from a 3-mile walk, something he couldn't do prior to his transplant in 2020 -.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 20, 2023

based Vanderbilt Transplant Center partnered with Evansville, Ind.-based based Deaconess Health System to open a new transplant clinic in Newburgh, Ind. Nashville, Tenn.-based

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HCPLive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Bau explains the challenges of using MELD to determine liver transplant referrals and other complexities of the evaluation process.

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Transplant 59

HCPLive

JANUARY 12, 2024

Liver transplantation after prolonged preservation with dual hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion yielded similar outcomes to standard perfusion, showing no compromised donor liver quality and equal safety for recipients.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More than 4,500 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. While the lifesaving operation improves the quality of life and longevity for most recipients, organ rejection remains a risk, with acute rejection occurring in up to 32% of recipients within the first year.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 18, 2024

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital performed the first "domino" heart transplant on babies, according to an American Hospital Association report.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 11, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Public report cards for heart transplant centers are under fire for not being meaningful -- potentially even misrepresentative of care quality -- as a given center's ratings may vary wildly from year to year, a study found.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 16, 2024

The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ice. This is according to a study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 24, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had heart failure and end.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 3, 2024

The world's first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for—functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team behind the procedure at Duke Health.

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HCPLive

MARCH 1, 2024

of patients who were treated for HCV with DAA therapy and underwent renal transplantation did not experience HCV recurrence. Results showed 95.8%

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Transplant 98

HCPLive

JUNE 20, 2024

Ross-Driscoll explains how disparities in the liver transplant process begin prior to waitlisting and how findings from her research on referral and evaluation may inform interventions.

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HeartRhythm

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Urgent heart transplantation (HTx) may be considered when all previous strategies fail (1), albeit with substantial post-operative mortality (1). Although HTx is considered as a bail-out strategy, no data exist regarding outcomes of refractory ES patients listed for urgent HTx but ultimately not transplanted during the acute phase.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- NBA champion and "Survivor" contestant Scot Pollard is "awake and feeling great" a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. Scot has a new heart!" Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on X, formerly.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

AUGUST 20, 2024

The risk of early heart failure after heart transplantation is lower if the donor heart is stored in a so-called heart-in-a-box instead of in the usual cooler with ice.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JULY 24, 2024

Discover the innovative device developed by Tampa General Hospital researchers that extends the viability of transplant hearts by three hours

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

The outcome of heart transplantation is significantly affected by perioperative infections. Individualised immunosuppression strategies are essential to reduce the risk of such infections.

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Heart Transplant Transplant Outcomes 52

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

MAY 12, 2024

A 53-year-old woman with the dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy underwent orthotopic heart transplantation. The donor heart was evaluated as normal preoperatively without mitral regurgitation or the.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 5, 2024

The United Network for Organ Sharing pediatric transplant list does not rank patients by medical need, according to a study published Aug. 5 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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