Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy were associated with higher risk for coronary artery disease and stroke, which was only partially mediated by cardiometabolic factors, according to findings from a study using mendelian randomization. Read more in Healio.
A new data report contains summary level information on the exception request decisions made by the Pediatric National Heart Review Board (NHRB). The board was implemented on June 15, 2021. Before implementation, Regional Review Boards (RRBs) handled and reviewed exception cases for pediatrics candidates. Read more from UNOS.
As a twentysomething fitness instructor, it was admittedly a little disconcerting for Kristy Sidlar when she passed out in front of a class she was teaching back in 1996. She initially chalked it up to not having eaten enough, but she was soon diagnosed with an arrhythmia, given some medication and told not to exercise so much. “That is the kiss of death – to tell that to someone who loves to exercise,” says Sidlar, who is now 54. Read the full story on CareDx.com.
Fred Hutch study suggests certain immune cells are source of antibodies that attack donated organs
Each day, 13 patients awaiting transplants for severe kidney disease in the U.S. lose their lives before a compatible kidney can be found.
Frequently, it is simply that there are not enough donated organs available, but sometimes it is because the right donor is too rare. Of the 92,000 people in U.S. waiting this year for a kidney transplant, about one in ten will have an especially hard time finding a compatible donor. Read more from the Fred Hutch News Service.
Giving adult kidney transplant recipients sodium bicarbonate to correct metabolic acidosis may not help preserve graft function and instead represents an unnecessary “pill burden,” new clinical trial data from Switzerland suggest. Read more in Medscape.
Among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, men were more likely than women to have CV complications, but the difference was not explained by lower rates of past CVD in women, researchers reported in BMJ Medicine. Read more in Healio.
It was moments with his kids that made Jason Banner decide to take a chance on a new method of heart transplantation.
The single father of two discovered in 2005 he had a genetic heart condition. Last year, he was hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat that causes poor blood flow. Read more from CBS News.
In the two years following the launch of the national liver allocation policy based on acuity circles, nearly 15,300 deceased donor liver-alone transplants were performed nationwide. This was an increase of 4.3 percent over the corresponding two-year period before implementation. Read more from UNOS.
“We celebrated how far we’ve come, but it’s also like, ‘Wow, it took this long for something like this to happen?’” Dr. Charlene Blake tells TODAY.com.
Dr. Amy Fiedler was finishing up a standard heart transplant surgery in December — putting the dressings on the patient and getting ready to transport her the intensive care unit — when she noticed something she’d never seen before. The room was entirely women.
Read the full story in USA Today.
Despite similar kidney transplant outcomes, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) were less likely than the general population to be evaluated for transplant and less likely to receive one, a propensity-score matched analysis found. Read more in Medpage Today.