LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Patients with asthma had a greater risk for ischemic heart disease compared with those without asthma, according to a speaker at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.
Further, having moderate or severe persistent asthma significantly increased this risk, according to researchers. Read the full story in Healio.
Changing career paths has brought columnist Anna Jeter both grief and joy
Four weeks before I entered my freshman year of college, I was being evaluated for a heart-lung transplant due to pulmonary hypertension (PH). Little did I know that I would spend the next four years managing these very separate journeys alongside each other.
During this time, I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing events in my mind — perhaps too good a job. On one train of thought, I was preparing for a career in nursing and pursuing my degree to secure this future. In a completely different realm, I was beginning my transplant journey. Read the full article in Pulmonary Hypertension News here.
ORLANDO, Florida — Using a low-chloride, balanced crystalloid solution for all intravenous (IV) fluids received by patients who received a deceased donor kidney transplant resulted in significantly fewer episodes of delayed graft function compared with patients who received saline as their IV fluids, in a new multicenter trial with 807 randomized and evaluable patients called BEST-Fluids.
“The findings suggest that balanced crystalloids should be the standard-of-care IV fluid in deceased donor kidney transplantations,” said Michael G. Collins, MBChB, PhD, at Kidney Week 2022, organized by the American Society of Nephrology. Read the full story in Medscape here.
Whether by plane, train or automobile, with many of us traveling for the upcoming holidays, we rounded up some transplant travel essentials to keep you healthy and sane during the hustle and bustle of the season. Read the full article on CareDx.com.
A frequent complication in kidney transplantation is post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM). The primary goal of this study is to review the risk factors and preventive methods and compare the different available anti-diabetic medications for the management of PTDM. We searched databases like Pubmed and Google Scholar for related articles using specific terms and phrases. Following a thorough investigation, we applied the inclusion and exclusion criteria and completed a quality assessment.
Read the full abstract in Cureus.
Organ procurement organizations and transplant centers were about 5% less likely to choose organs from 70-year-old donors compared to those who were just a year younger.
American transplant centers as well as organ procurement organizations, the groups responsible for recovering organs from deceased donors in the United States, were less likely to accept or select organs from donors who were 70 years old when they died compared to those who were 69, new research found.
This is an example of left digit bias, a common type of unconscious bias that involves placing value based on the first digit in a number and thus is often linked to ageism.
Read the full story from University of Michigan Health.
George Surratt felt like the luckiest man in the world when he got a liver transplant. The wait list for an organ is so long that some patients run out of time.
And, so, nine years later, when the Maplewood, MN, engineer turned again to University of Minnesota doctors, this time for a kidney transplant, he was worried.
Could lightning strike twice and allow him to join his wife in watching their two kids grow into careers and maybe even families? Read the full story from University of Minnesota News.
Ukrainian doctors are getting a crash course in lung transplants here in the U.S. Patients usually leave Ukraine for the surgery, but the war has increased the need for care back home. Get the full story from NPR here.
Patients with heart transplants involving donation after circulatory death have no detectable difference in survival compared with those with hearts donated after brain death, according to a study published in Circulation: Heart Failure.
Using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry, the researchers identified adult heart transplant recipients from January 2019 to September 2021 and used propensity-score matching to compare 1-year mortality between patients with hearts donated after circulatory death and those with hearts donated after brain death. Read more in Healio.
CHICAGO — A radiofrequency renal denervation system lowered BP in patients with resistant hypertension already on antihypertensive medication at 6 months, but did not meet its primary efficacy endpoint. Read more in Healio.