By Jody A. Charnow
New study findings support kidney transplantation to treat kidney failure in patients with AA amyloidosis.
Using a French national transplant database, investigators studied 86 patients with renal AA amyloidosis who received a kidney transplant from 2008 to 2018 at 26 centers.
Read more in Renal & Urology News.
By Chad Van Alstin
Surgeons may have to start worrying about machines taking their jobs. A research hospital in Saudi Arabia has just achieved the world’s first fully robotic liver transplant—and the patient survived and is doing fine.
The recipient of this pioneering procedure was a 66-year-old Saudi male who has since recovered and been discharged, according to a statement from the hospital. The transplant was conducted by the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC), which is becoming world famous for its robotic surgeons, who just last year successfully performed delicate brain surgery, albeit with the support of humans.
Read more in HealthExec.
By Michael Monostra
Physical activity during the morning and afternoon, but not during the evening, is associated with a lower risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to findings published in Diabetologia.
“It is possible for the relationship between total physical activity and prospective risk for type 2 diabetes to differ by the time of day of physical activity,” Chirag J. Patel, PhD, assistant professor in the department of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School, told Healio. Read more in Healio.
By Victoria Socha
Improved access to kidney transplantation as well as better rates of patient survival may be associated with an increase in older kidney transplant recipients experiencing graft failure. Y. Chen and colleagues conducted a study designed to examine age disparities in access to first and repeat kidney transplantation. Read more in DocWire News.
By Regina Schaffer
Data suggest psychosocial stressors at work, including job strain and effort-reward imbalance, independently raise CVD risk for men and could pose a risk for heart health in women, though that evidence remains inconclusive.
“Our study underscores the importance of addressing psychosocial factors in the workplace as potential contributors to coronary heart disease risk,” Mathilde Lavigne-Robichaud, RD, MSc, a doctoral candidate in epidemiology affiliated with the population health and optimal health practices research unit of CHU de Quebec-University Laval Research Center in Laval, Quebec, Canada, told Healio. Read the full story in Healio.
By Regina Schaffer
Adults who reported climbing more than five flights of stairs daily were 20% less likely to develop atherosclerotic CVD over 12 years compared with those who reported never climbing stairs, according to data from a UK Biobank analysis.
“Short bursts of high-intensity stair climbing are a time-efficient way to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and lipid profile, especially among those unable to achieve the current physical activity recommendations,” Lu Qi, MD, PhD, FAHA, HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and professor in the department of epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues wrote in the study background. Read more in Healio.
By Shania Kennedy
September 29, 2023 – Researchers at University of Florida (UF) Health have been awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support system to help improve kidney transplant outcomes.
As part of the five-year project, the research team will examine how AI models could assist with diagnosis, prediction, and care management for kidney transplant patients. Read more in Health IT Analytics.
By Pauline Anderson
There are no significant differences in 1-year mortality, survival to hospital discharge, severe primary graft dysfunction (PGD), and other outcomes post heart transplant between patients who receive a heart obtained by donation after circulatory death (DCD) and patients who receive a heart by donation after brain death (DBD), a new study has shown. Read the full article in Medscape.
By Kristin Jenkins
Among patients with COVID-19-associated lung injury (CALI), 45% develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pulmonary fibrosis. Most cannot be weaned from mechanical ventilation or extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and lung transplantation remains one of the only treatment options.
But there was encouraging data from a retrospective case control cohort study.
Read the full article in MedPage Today.
Written By UChicago Medicine organ transplant team
The University of Chicago Medicine organ transplant program has experts in heart, kidney, liver, lung, multi-organ, and pancreas and islet transplantations. We know choosing the right transplant center can be a challenge and want our patients to feel comfort and confidence that the center they choose will meet their specific needs. Below, our organ transplant team answers questions many prospective patients face on their journey to finding the best place for a transplant, including information specific to UChicago Medicine.
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