Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.
From fad diets to two-hour workouts, there isn’t a diet or workout regimen that Roque didn’t try. Read the full story in News Medical Life Sciences.
A review of 23 studies found that evidence of kidney disease prior to a liver transplant is the strongest predictor kidney disease afterward.
Since the first liver transplant was performed at the University of Colorado 60 years ago, the procedure has evolved into life-saving surgery for countless patients with end-stage liver disease around the world. In the U.S., there are just over 9,200 liver transplants performed in 2021. Read more in Urology Times.
The Center for Liver and Hepatobiliary Diseases at Mercy in conjunction with the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) offers a Liver Transplant Clinic to help patients through the liver transplant process.
Mercy hepatologists including Dr. Paul Thuluvath, Dr. Anurag Maheshwari and Dr. Hwan Yoo meet with UMMC transplant surgeons in hosting the clinic to evaluate patients who may benefit from a potential transplant. Read more in News Medical Life Sciences.
Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to get the liver, dodging racers in the Philadelphia Half-Marathon.
With the clock ticking on his precious cargo of a human liver for transplant surgery, a van driver made good time on his way from New York to Philadelphia on a Saturday morning in November.
Until he ran into thousands who were racing against a different clock: runners competing in the Dietz & Watson Philadelphia Half Marathon.
Read the full story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
MARCH, 01, 2023
BRISBANE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA), a leading precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers — today announced that it is sponsoring the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Annual Kidney Patient Summit taking place on Capitol Hill on March 1-2, 2023. Read the complete press release at CareDx.com.
Jason D. Goldman, M.D., from the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and colleagues compared organ utilization and recipient outcomes between SARS-CoV-2 NAT-positive and NAT-negative donors. Organs were recovered from 617 NAT-positive donors from all Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network regions and 53 of 57 organ procurement organizations from May 27, 2021, to Jan. 31, 2022.
Read more in Medical Xpress.
The following is the summary of “Outcomes of lung transplantation from donors with a history of substance abuse” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Donahoe, et al. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.
Clinic provides diabetes and endocrinology care for patients after transplants
(SACRAMENTO) Did you know diabetes is a common complication following a kidney transplant?
UC Davis Health has established a new transplant endocrinology clinic to improve care of diabetes and other endocrinology disorders for kidney transplant patients. Read more from UC Davis Health News.
Historically, Black patients have had to wait longer for kidney transplants than other races, in part because of an outdated test that overestimated their kidney function. Now, a new national rule will remove the test, which is seen as racially bias, in determining who gets a transplant. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor shares more. Watch the story on NBC Nightly News.
Compared with boys, girls with type 1 diabetes have worse HbA1c, higher BMI and more diabetic ketoacidosis and require higher insulin doses, according to a systematic review published in Diabetologia.
Read more in Healio.