MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a decrease in transplantation in 2020, according to a study published in the July 1 issue of the American Journal of Surgery.
Alejandro Suarez-Pierre, M.D., from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, and colleagues examined adult transplantation data as time series data in a population-based cohort study. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.
In early 2018, the NYU Langone Transplant Institute launched two ambitious programs. The new heart transplant team gave its first patient her life back early that year. The lung transplant program, the third of its kind in the New York City metro area, began that February, making NYU Langone Health one of the most comprehensive transplant centers in the region.
A little more than 4 years later, both programs have reached an impressive milestone, logging more than 200 heart transplants and more than 200 lung transplants. Read more from the NYU Langone Health News Hub.
MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Patients are willing to receive a worse-quality kidney sooner in order to avoid additional waiting time for transplant, according to a study published online Aug. 19 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Sanjay Mehrota, Ph.D., from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and colleagues used a discrete-choice experiment that presented a deceased donor kidney to 605 patients who are waiting for or have received a kidney transplant. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.
The burden of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or long COVID, appeared to be low among children, but myocarditis was the most commonly diagnosed PASC-associated condition, according to a large retrospective cohort study.
Among over 650,000 individuals under the age of 21 who underwent antigen or RT-PCR testing, the incidence of at least one systemic, syndromic, or medication feature of PASC was 41.9% for positive children compared with 38.2% for negative children 28 to 179 days after initial testing, reported Suchitra Rao, MBBS, MSCS, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, and colleagues.
Read more in MedPage Today.
— Risk profiles, trajectories vary for children and adults
Up to 2 years after infection, people who had COVID-19 continued to face increased risks of neurologic and psychiatric sequelae compared with people who had other respiratory infections, a retrospective study showed.
Health records of nearly 1.3 million people — mostly in the U.S. — showed that risks of cognitive deficit (brain fog), dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures were increased at 2 years for adults who had COVID, reported Paul Harrison, FRCPsych, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues. Read more in MedPage Today.
Exercise performance during cardiac rehabilitation, scored with a novel index, can reliably predict CV event risk at 1 year, according to data from a single-center study.
“Participating in a cardiac rehabilitation program is essential to improving patients’ survival and quality of life following myocardial infarction or heart surgery and for patients with HF,” Ofir Koren, MD, FESC, an interventional cardiology fellow with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Smidt Heart Institute and a senior interventional cardiologist with Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel, told Healio. Read more in Healio.
End-stage liver disease patients at lower risk for death in the short term still reaped the substantial benefits of a living-donor liver transplant (LDLT), a case-control study revealed.
Compared with individuals who remained on the transplant waitlist, those with Model for End-Stage Liver Disease incorporating sodium levels (MELD-Na) scores ranging from 6 to 19 gained an additional 13 to 17 years of life following LDLT, reported John Malamon, PhD, of the University of Colorado in Aurora, and colleagues. Read more in MedPage Today.
Smartphone-recorded steps over 2 years were linked to positive changes in CVD risk factors but varied between men and women, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
“This is a well-powered observational study showing the value of smartphone-recorded steps,” Rikuta Hamaya, MD, MSc, from the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Healio. “Although further research is needed, this study suggests a useful role of smartphone‐recorded steps for monitoring cardiovascular disease risk over the long term.” Read the full story in Healio.
Among U.S. adults, Black and Hispanic individuals are younger when diagnosed with hypertension compared with white individuals, according to new data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in the section of heart failure at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study of 9,627 U.S. adults, representing nearly 75 million Americans, with hypertension from the NHANES from 2011 to 2020. Read more in Healio.
A population-based study investigating gender differences in kidney function found that women had lower function at baseline, but that men’s function declined faster, especially at older ages. The results suggest the need for age- and sex-adjusted definitions of kidney disease, the researchers said.
Among 1,837 people ages 50-62, who were representative of the general population, the mean glomerular filtration rates (GFR) at baseline were 90 and 98 mL/min/1.73 m2 for women and men, respectively (P<0.001). Read the full story in MedPage Today.