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In US, hypertension diagnosis occurs earlier in Black, Hispanic adults

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Among U.S. adults, Black and Hispanic individuals are younger when diagnosed with hypertension compared with white individuals, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in the section of heart failure at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of 9,627 U.S. adults, representing nearly 75 million Americans, with hypertension from the NHANES from 2011 to 2020. Read more in Healio.

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Age-Related Kidney Function Loss Differs Significantly by Gender

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— Age- and sex-adjusted definitions of chronic kidney disease may be necessary, researchers say

A population-based study investigating gender differences in kidney function found that women had lower function at baseline, but that men’s function declined faster, especially at older ages. The results suggest the need for age- and sex-adjusted definitions of kidney disease, the researchers said.

Among 1,837 people ages 50-62, who were representative of the general population, the mean glomerular filtration rates (GFR) at baseline were 90 and 98 mL/min/1.73 m2 for women and men, respectively (P<0.001). Read the full story in MedPage Today.

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CareDx launches AlloHome, medication management feature on AlloCare app

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CareDx Inc. announced the launch of AlloHome, a pan-organ patient monitoring tool located on the AlloCare app that can capture health data from the comfort of a patient’s home, according to a press release.

Patients who use AlloHome receive Bluetooth devices, including a glucose monitor and a blood pressure cuff, that automatically pair with a smart hub in the house. Data also pair with the patient’s AlloCare app. Read the full story in Healio.

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Mass General Ranked Among the Top U.S. Heart Transplant Programs Despite COVID-19 Challenges

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In 2021, the MGH Transplant Center completed 43 heart transplants – the hospital’s third-highest annual transplant volume in the program’s history despite challenges driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. This success was reflected in this year’s Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients’ list of national transplant program outcomes, with Mass General having one of the best overall performances in the U.S.

“The transplant program has grown significantly over the past five years,” says Greg Lewis, MD, medical director of the Cardiac Transplantation Program. “We now perform about 1% of the international volume here at Mass General.”
Read more from Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Meet Colette Hurd, Northwestern’s 1st transplant recipient of organs that weren’t a match. An immunosuppression strategy is key to her success.

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It was 422 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

That’s the length of Ashburn-area resident Colette Hurd’s stay due to her idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, a condition that affects blood vessels in the lungs and the right side of the heart and causes the heart and lungs to weaken over time.
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune.

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The experiences of family members of deceased organ donors and suggestions to improve the donation process: a qualitative study

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Abstract

Background: Decisions about organ donation are stressful for family members of potential organ donors. We sought to comprehensively explore the donation process from interviews conducted with family members of patients admitted to pediatric and adult intensive care units in Canada.

Methods: We conducted a qualitative study using semistructured, in-depth interviews with 271 family members asked to make an organ donation decision. We recruited participants from all provinces with an organ donation organization (n = 10), and analyzed themes using a modified grounded theory approach. On the basis of these interviews, suggestions were made by researchers and family members on how to improve the process of organ donation. Read the complete abstract from the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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Two-year monitoring report for liver, intestine policy shows success in key aspects

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A data report is available detailing the first two years of liver and intestinal organ allocation policy based on acuity circles. The policy was projected to increase equity and provide more consistent transplant access for the most urgent transplant candidates. Continuing trends as documented in previous monitoring reports, the findings in this two-year report support a number of key modeling predictions and demonstrate an improvement compared with the previous policy in many important areas.

Overall, deceased donor liver transplants under the new policy increased by 4.3 percent, or 632 procedures, compared to the pre-policy era. Read more from the Organ Transplant and Procurement Network (OPTN).

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Lung transplantation at Cedars-Sinai has outstanding success rates

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A new report on lung transplantation success rates confirms that Cedars-Sinai patients experienced one-year survival outcomes of 91.49%, an achievement above the national average of 89.46%.

The data-; compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients-; provides a hopeful prognosis-; and options-;for patients requiring the complex yet lifesaving surgery.
Read more in News Medical Life Sciences.

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Pediatric kidney transplant patients fare better when kidney is from live donor

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(SACRAMENTO) Do pediatric kidney transplant patients have better long-term outcomes when their kidney comes from living, biologically unrelated donors compared to deceased donors?

A new UC Davis Health study finds that they do. The study reviewed data from the Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network database from Jan. 1, 2001 to Sept. 30, 2021. Researchers compared the rates of graft failure (when the organ is rejected by the recipient) and death, as well as long-term outcomes of children who received kidney transplants from living related donors, living unrelated donors and deceased donors.
Read more from UC Davis Health News.

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