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Vote calls for a work group to consider whether organs transported via commercial flight could once again travel safely in a plane’s cabin

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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved, as part of its 2023 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, a provision aimed at enhancing efficiencies of the transportation of donor organs through the nation’s commercial aviation system.

Section 834 of H.R. 3934, the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, requires the Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT), in consultation with the FAA Administrator, to convene a working group to develop best practices for the transportation of an organ in the cabin of an aircraft.
Read the complete press release from UNOS.

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Intermountain’s heart transplant team celebrates 600th transplant

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By Emily Ashcraft, KSL.com

MURRAY — Jessica Leon received her “miracle” on April 27, and she expressed gratitude Tuesday for her “hero donor” who allowed her to continue raising her two daughters.

Leon said she can’t imagine the pain the heart donor’s family went through, but she said with their “merciful decision, they prevented my daughters (from going) through the same type of loss.” Read the full story on KSL.com.

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New policy aims to speed kidney acceptance rates, increase transplants

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July 19, 2023, Richmond, VA

The OPTN Board of Directors unanimously approved a new policy that will help more patients receive a lifesaving kidney transplant by getting the right organ to the right patient faster.

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the non-profit organization that contracts with the federal government to serve as the nation’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Read the complete press release from UNOS.

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In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant

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By University of Washington School of Medicine

Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this innovative case, the organ recipient’s own healthy liver was transplanted, domino-like, into a second patient who had advanced liver disease. Read the full article in Medical Xpress.

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Payers, providers see value-based care as opportunity to treat early stages of CKD

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By Mark E. Neumann

One goal of the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative, which was launched in 2019, was to significantly increase the number of kidney transplants.

The way to do that, according to CMS at the time, was to intervene early and slow chronic kidney disease progression so preemptive transplants could be performed, allowing patients to forgo dialysis.
Read the full story in Healio.

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Washington University surgeons pioneer robotic liver transplantation

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Reviewed by Megan Craig, M. Sc.

A surgical team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently performed the first robotic liver transplant in the U.S. in May at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

A surgical team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently performed the first robotic liver transplant in the U.S. Read the full article in News Medical Life Sciences.

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‘Access to care is key’: Closing the race disparity gap in heart transplant

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By Regina Schaffer

Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a three-part Healio Exclusive series on developments and challenges in heart transplantation. Part 1 can be viewed here.

Heart transplant is the most effective treatment for end-stage HF but it is also the scarcest of HF therapies — particularly for patients from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. Read the full article in Healio.

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