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Transforming Transplantation

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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.

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

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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.

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ChatGPT model provides appropriate recommendations for most CVD prevention queries

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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.

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Two former Marines share a football rivalry and a kidney

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(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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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More than 15,000 liver transplants performed in first two years of acuity circles policy

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In the two years following the launch of the national liver allocation policy based on acuity circles, nearly 15,300 deceased donor liver-alone transplants were performed nationwide. This was an increase of 4.3 percent over the corresponding two-year period before implementation.

A key focus in monitoring the policy’s performance has been its effect on transplant volume in various geographic areas. Read the full story from UNOS.

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