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Gestational diabetes greatly increases risk for developing future incident diabetes

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By Michael Monostra

Women who have gestational diabetes during pregnancy have a more than 11 times higher risk for developing diabetes than women who did not have gestational diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care.

“Our findings highlight the importance of regular diabetes screening following gestational diabetes, particularly in the first 12 months following delivery, which was marked by the highest incidence of diabetes and least likelihood of glycemic control, in order to facilitate early detection and appropriate diabetes management,” Katharine McCarthy, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told Healio. Read the full article in Healio.

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Adolescent, young adult survivors of kidney cancer at high risk for cardiovascular disease

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By Jennifer Southall

Adolescent and young adult survivors of kidney cancer appeared at significantly increased risk for left ventricular ejection fraction, according to study results published in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Nearly half of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) treated with sorafenib (Nexavar, Bayer) and one-third of those treated with sunitinib (Sutent, Pfizer) developed hypertension, researchers noted.
Read the full article in Healio.

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Texas physicians perform rare partial heart transplant on 11-month-old

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By Mariah Taylor

UT Health Austin and Dell Children’s Medical Center physicians performed the world’s seventh pediatric partial heart transplant.

The surgery was performed June 23 on an 11-month-old baby who was born with a congenital heart defect condition. The baby’s valve between the lower left heart chamber and the main artery did not open fully, according to a July 10 system press release. The 11-hour surgery used valves from a donor heart as a complete transplant. Read more in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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Girl receives heart of 4-year-old-boy in first transplant of its kind in Ukraine

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By Radina Gigova and Svitlana Vlasova, CNN

Amid the raging war and constant threat of Russian missiles, a successful heart transplant has been performed on a 6-year-old girl in Kyiv, authorities with the Heart Institute of Ukraine’s Ministry of Health announced on Monday.

The three-hour operation, which took place on Sunday evening, gave the girl the heart of a 4-year-old boy, whom doctors had declared brain dead after suffering an aneurysm. Read the full story on CNN.

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Teaching compassion in the clinic

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A decade after its creation, faculty and students reflect on how a unique VCU School of Medicine course prepares the next generation of physicians.

By Laura Ingles

While prepping a patient in the ICU for a liver transplant, Danny Walden, M.D., absorbed the details the patient shared with a visiting social worker about traumatic events in her past.

He immediately recalled a lesson from his days at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and recognized what she divulged as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which can lead to substance abuse and other long-term health issues.
Read the full article in the VCU Health News Center.

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Healthy diet including full-fat dairy lowers risk for heart disease, death worldwide

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By Regina Shaffer

Researchers reported that a diet comprised of higher amounts of fruit, vegetables, nuts, legumes, fish and whole-fat dairy is associated with lower CVD and mortality in all world regions, especially in countries with lower income.

In an analysis of data from four large, international prospective cohort studies from 80 countries and two case-control studies from 62 countries, researchers found that a 20% higher PURE healthy diet score was associated with a 6% lower risk for major CV events and an 8% lower risk for mortality. Read the full article in Healio.

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CareDx’s AlloSure Lung dd-cfDNA Testing Service Receives Medicare Coverage for Lung Transplant Rejection Monitoring

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AlloSure Lung Represents First dd-cfDNA Approved by Medicare for Lung Transplant Patients

BRISBANE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA) – The Transplant Company™ focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers – today announced that CareDx’s AlloSure® Lung donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) molecular testing service has received Medicare coverage.

The MolDX technology assessment program has determined that AlloSure Lung will be covered under the existing Medicare Local Coverage Determination for Molecular Testing for Solid Organ Allograft Rejection for use in the surveillance setting in lung transplant patients, effective May 9, 2023.1 Read the complete press release on CareDx.com.

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With heart transplant advances, a quest for ‘holy grail’ of tolerance, improved outcomes

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By Regina Shaffer

Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a three-part Healio Exclusive series on developments and challenges in heart transplantation.

Heart transplantation is considered standard therapy for patients with end-stage HF, and survival and the availability of donor hearts have continued to improve over time.

In 2022, there were 4,111 heart transplants in the United States, an increase of 21.5% from 2021, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Read the full article in Healio.

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Kidney Care Partners expresses disappointment with proposed dialysis payment increase

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By Mark E. Neumann

Kidney Care Partners, a coalition of 30 organizations involved in kidney care, said it was “extremely concerned” about a proposal by CMS to increase the Medicare bundled payment rate by 1.6% next year, according to a press release.

The proposed additional payment, about half of the increase that CMS agreed to pay dialysis providers in 2023, “fails to heed calls from the kidney care community for meaningful relief to address the ongoing workforce crisis,” Kidney Care Partners (KCP) said in the release.
Read the full article in Healio.

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