By Miana Massey
BALTIMORE — More than 100,000 people nationwide are currently waiting for an organ transplant, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration.
“The need out surpasses the availability. Supply does not meet demand in this case,” Jennifer Verbesey, the transplant director of MedStar Health, said. Read more from CBS Baltimore.
Busy mom recovering after 14 hours in surgery, 2 new organs, care from team of 250+
A Chili mother is recovering from life-saving, dual-organ transplant surgeries following a massive effort at UR Medicine’s Strong Memorial Hospital.
More than 250 clinical and support staff – enough to fill three city buses – helped with her care, which included more than 14 hours of surgeries to give her a new heart and a new kidney.
Read more from the University of Rochester Medical Center Newsroom.
By UCHealth Writers
Chantelle Sharketti was just 40 years old when she suffered a spontaneous coronary aortic dissection, a medical emergency that often causes sudden death, while she was at home with her three young children. There were no warning signs that her heart was about to fail.
Within a few minutes of arriving at UCHealth Memorial North in Colorado Springs, Chantelle was sedated, intubated and taken to the heart catheterization lab, where a cardiologist placed stents to open her arteries. Read more in UCHealth Today.
By Rose Weldon
The medical world has to overcome the perception that children are not susceptible to long COVID, physicians said during a U.S. News and World Report webinar on the topic.
Approximately one in eight patients with COVID-19 experiences long COVID, according to data published last year. Among pediatric patients, adolescents are overrepresented.
Read more from Healio News.
by Greg Segal, Jennifer Erickson, MS, Donna Cryer, JD, and Bryan Sivak
The U.S. government recently made a transformative announcement: it is breaking up the flawed monopoly that manages the current organ procurement system, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).
This commonsense reform marks an unequivocal win for patients, and has been heralded by patient groupsopens in a new tab or window, equity leadersopens in a new tab or window, and bipartisanopens in a new tab or window Congressional officesopens in a new tab or window alike. Read the full story in MedPage Today.
By Michael Monostra
Low-carbohydrate diets centered on macronutrients from whole grains, fruit and vegetables are associated with a lower mortality risk for people with type 2 diabetes, according to study data.
“It is well established that maintaining a higher diet quality is important for human health,” Yang Hu, ScD, research associate in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Healio. Read the full story in Healio.
Compassionate colleagues highlight the importance of living organ donations
By Sean Gorman
During the month of April, VCU Health News will be publishing a series of stories to mark National Donate Life Month, a national effort to spread awareness about the importance of organ, eye and tissue donations.
Jay Gould’s kidney disease had been slowly progressing for 30 years and he knew there was a possibility of needing to undergo a transplant one day.
That time finally arrived in 2022 as his declining kidney health put him in danger of having to start dialysis unless he received an organ transplant. His nephrologist, Todd W. Gehr, M.D., told Gould that the time for a new kidney was approaching.
Read the story from VCU Health News Center.
By Kate Young
Physical activity may offset the increased CVD mortality that is associated with unusual sleep duration, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
“To our knowledge, the present study was the first to use accelerometry to document the joint association of physical activity and sleep duration with all-cause, CVD and cancer mortality,” Yannis Yan Liang, MD, PhD, of the Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital and Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences in Guangdong, China, and colleagues wrote. Read more in Healio.
By Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN
Liver transplant is an effective therapy for patients with primary liver cancer, and outcomes after transplantation are often superior to surgical resection. But the pool of potential patients is increasing, as transplantation is now emerging as an attractive option for select patients with nonresectable colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases, as well as those with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA).
Experts in the field highlighted some of the current challenges and opportunities in transplant oncology during a special session at the 2023 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
Read more in Medscape.
By Crystal Phend
Short-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an increased risk for heart failure hospitalization among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a Danish registry study. Read the full story in MedPage Today.