HCPLive

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This retrospective analysis examined the current management of early and late anemia in a representative sample of the kidney transplant population in Spain.

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Open Heart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Objective Routine screening for cardiovascular disease before kidney transplantation remains controversial. This study aims to compare cardiac testing rates in patients with end-stage renal disease, referred and not referred for transplantation, and assess the impact of testing on transplant wait times. female), 6.9%

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HCPLive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Heplisav-B provided a greater vaccine completion rate and higher HBV seroprotection than the conventional 3-dose Recombivax HB in thoracic organ transplant candidates.

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HCPLive

AUGUST 26, 2024

A study found that women with trauma history have reduced liver transplant access compared to men, with gender disparities not driven by psychiatric symptoms.

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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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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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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Liver transplant waitlisting after a weekend was associated with higher 1-year post-transplant mortality compared with patients listed on a weekday.

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American College of Cardiology

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For heart transplantation following donation after circulatory death (DCD HT), what are the short-term outcomes associated with organ procurement using a normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) strategy compared to a direct procurement and perfusion (DPP) strategy?

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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

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

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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DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

© THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE 2024 milla1cf Tue, 02/13/2024 - 17:56 February 13, 2024 — Pediatric heart transplantation has long been hailed as a life-saving intervention for children suffering from end-stage heart failure. This helps us gain a comprehensive understanding of the immune response dynamics within transplanted hearts."

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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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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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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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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

MAY 20, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 21 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01041-x A study in Nature describes a single-cell-type strategy for vascular cell therapies that involves the artificial transplantation of mitochondria to endothelial cells, which promotes mitophagy and facilitates the formation of functional vessels in ischaemic tissue (..)

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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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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Compared with non-Hispanic White patients, racial/ethnic minority patients were more likely to be removed from the waitlist and not receive a transplant.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kim explains how poor sleep is linked to negative impacts on mental health, physical health, and frailty after liver transplantation.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Conversely, the lipid values measured after liver transplantation decreased significantly nearly to within normal and borderline limits. The post-transplant total cholesterol and LDL-C levels declined by a mean of 19.96 mmol/L The post-transplant total cholesterol and LDL-C levels declined by a mean of 19.96 mmol/L

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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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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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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

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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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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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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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kowdley explains how treatment with elafibranor (Iqirvo) improves transplant-free survival based on changes in GLOBE and UK-PBC prognostic scores.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Diabetes was associated with an increased risk of liver transplant or death and with liver-specific events in patients with PBC.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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