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Worse Lung Function Prevalent in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

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Study underscores effects of race, socioeconomic status on disease outcomes

People with sarcoidosis who live in neighborhoods lacking economic and social resources have lower lung function and faster lung function decline, a study in the U.S. and Canada revealed.

Non-white patients were overrepresented in the group with greater disadvantage, suggesting how race and differences in socioeconomic status can lead to poorer outcomes among people from minority backgrounds.  Read more in Sarcoidosis News.

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Liver-transplant patient demographic info can help predict hospital readmission

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Brittany Damazio led study as an undergraduate researcher during the pandemic

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The age, sex, and other demographic information about a patient can be used to predict whether they will need to be readmitted following a liver transplant, according to new research spearheaded by recent Penn State graduate Brittany Damazio.

Damazio led the analyses and writing on a recent publication in the Journal of Liver Transplantation as an undergraduate researcher in health policy and administration. In the paper, the researchers identified common traits among people who were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days following a liver transplant. This work could one day help doctors prevent readmissions. Read more from Penn State News.

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Italian police use Lamborghini to deliver kidneys to transplant patients

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Specially adapted supercar driven from Padua to Rome to ‘deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life’

Italian police have used a specially adapted Lamborghini supercar to deliver two kidneys to donor patients hundreds of kilometres apart.

“Travelling on the motorway to deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life,” they said in a statement posted on social media, alongside a picture of a medical cool box in a purpose-built compartment at the front of the Huracán.
Read the full story in The Guardian.

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HPV Infection Risk Rises for Women With CF and Lung Transplant

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Human papillomavirus can be cause of cervical cancer

Researchers also observed that it was more common for these women than for the general population to have cervical dysplasia, or an abnormal growth of cells on the cervix, the lowermost part of the uterus.

Study findings are in line with similar research in Canada, which reported a four times higher likelihood of cervical dysplasia among female CF patients with a lung transplant than other women with CF.  Read more in Cystic Fibrosis News Today.

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A Drone Flew a Human Lung Across Toronto for Emergency Transplant

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Big companies like Amazon and Walmart have recently been testing drone delivery, flying customers’ orders to them through traffic-less skies. Given the volume of packages now circulating through the mail system every day (and the Amazon delivery vehicles constantly clogging up urban streets), it’s important that companies find better ways to get goods to buyers. But while ferrying paper towels or shampoo (or the innumerable other items people buy online) into buyers’ waiting hands via drone is convenient (and, let’s be honest, pretty cool), the speed and urgency of the airborne technology is somewhat lost on these mundane tasks. Read more in Singularity Hub.

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A Kingwood man put his whole heart into being Santa. Then he needed a new one.

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Texas man Deryl McKenzie has been a Santa Claus for nearly four decades, but needed a heart transplant in 2018. He’s now back to being Santa for the first time since his surgery.

Everyone who knows Kingwood resident Deryl McKenzie calls him “Santa.”

McKenzie, 71, has been a Santa Claus during the holiday season for more than four decades, but over the years, he truly became Santa. Read this heartwarming story in the Houston Chronicle.

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Ebert’s Transplant Journey: Like Night and Day

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Having healthy kidney function has been nothing short of life-changing for transit worker and guitar aficionado Ebert Mahon

At the end of 2007, Ebert Mahon’s family went on a cruise. When he noticed early in 2008 that he was gaining weight, he figured that the cruise’s all-you-can-eat buffets had taken their toll. In his late 40s, Mahon normally tipped the scales at 180 pounds. But soon enough, the number crept to 235. “Could I really have eaten that much on the 10-day trip?” he wondered. Read more about Ebert’s transplant journey on CareDx.com.

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