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febrero 11, 2023febrero 10, 2023

New Study Shows QI Efforts Can Help Overcome Kidney Transplant Disparities

Although Black individuals suffer from kidney failure at a markedly increased rate compared with White individuals in the US, Black patients have reduced access to kidney transplants and are significantly underrepresented on kidney transplant waitlists. New research from the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows, however, that reducing structural barriers in access to kidney transplants can reduce inequity in tandem.
Read more from the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

febrero 10, 2023febrero 10, 2023

Pre-liver transplant frailty increases risk for worse global functional health outcomes

Physical frailty before liver transplant correlated with poor functional status and health-related quality of life 1 year after surgery among patients with cirrhosis, according to research published in JAMA Surgery.

“As the quantity of posttransplant years of life improves, it is crucial to better understand the factors, particularly those that are modifiable, that contribute to patients’ quality of life during those posttransplant years,” Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine and endowed professor of liver health and transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues wrote. Read more in Healio.

febrero 10, 2023febrero 10, 2023

Transforming Transplantation

UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs.

Organ donation and transplantation marks one of the great advances of modern medicine, providing a second chance at life for a patient whose organ(s) is failing or damaged beyond repair from disease or injury.

The Center for Transplantation at UC San Diego Health is a national hub of clinical expertise and research, and the region’s leader in transplantation. Since 1968, the center has performed thousands of transplants under a national standard of care model. Read more in UC San Diego Today.

febrero 9, 2023febrero 9, 2023

CMS policy change could increase disparities in heart transplant receipt

In 2020, CMS made a policy change to increase access to left ventricular assist devices. It could have unintended consequences in increasing disparities in who receives a heart transplant, according to a research team. Read more in Healio.

febrero 9, 2023febrero 9, 2023

Jailyn Mason and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh had been in this situation before.

There was a kidney available for 9-year-old Jailyn, who also needs a small bowel transplant. To get the transplant, Jailyn had to travel to Pittsburgh from her home in Texas within a matter of hours – too fast to arrange flights on a commercial airline. Read the full story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

febrero 8, 2023febrero 8, 2023

ChatGPT model provides appropriate recommendations for most CVD prevention queries

A research version of the artificial intelligence language model ChatGPT appropriately responded to a majority of suggested CVD prevention questions, including complex topics like cholesterol management despite statin therapy.

“There has been a lot of media attention about ChatGPT and people are looking at its ability to answer complex questions across many fields,” Ashish Sarraju, MD, a preventive cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, told Healio. Read more in Healio.

febrero 8, 2023febrero 8, 2023

Two former Marines share a football rivalry and a kidney

(Tribune News Service) — For two men — one an Eagles fan and the other a Chiefs supporter — a bond runs far deeper than their favorite teams’ forthcoming showdown in Super Bowl LVII.

Billy Welsh, of Cherry Hill, and John Gladwell, of Kansas City, Mo., met on a military base in 2001 while serving in the Marine Corps. Gladwell, then a Marine with years of experience under his belt, admitted he wasn’t too fond of the incoming recruit Welsh and his northeastern attitude. But today they share two things: a newfound football rivalry and a kidney.
Read the full story in Stars and Stripes.

febrero 7, 2023febrero 7, 2023

Transplant-Acquired Atopy and Allergy Found to be More Common in Pediatric Liver Transplants

New research into risk factors for pediatric liver transplant patients indicated that atopy and allergy may follow a transplant and are more common among females and younger patients.

Pediatric liver transplant recipients were found to be more likely than adult recipients to acquire transplant-acquired atopy and allergy (TAA) with female gender also being correlated with higher rates according to new findings.¹ Read more in HCP Live.

febrero 7, 2023febrero 7, 2023

How The Busiest Heart Transplant Center In The World Got Its Start – An Inside Story Of The First Decade

It started with a phone call.

In 1985 I was a Fellow in transplant surgery at Stanford University Medical School, operating under the tutelage of Dr. Norman Shumway. Shumway is considered the “Father of Heart Transplantation,” a title fitting for my mentor who was a research-grounded, scientist-surgeon.
Read the full story in Forbes.

febrero 6, 2023febrero 6, 2023

There Should Be An Urgency To Increase The Number Of Kidneys Available For Transplant

The United States has a government agency solely devoted to reducing automobile deaths in the United States, and it spends billions of dollars each year—and requires auto companies to do likewise—in an attempt to make our nation’s roads and the cars that travel on them safer.

However, more people die from kidney disease than from automobile accidents, but we lack any concerted effort to reduce these deaths.
Read the full story in Forbes.