By Kelly Morgan
Two families have met for the first time after a Salisbury man received a double lung transplant.
Stephen Henstridge, 66, received Michele Sephton’s lungs in September 2019 after she died in a car crash.
At the time of the transplant Mr Henstridge had only weeks to live as he battled the terminal condition idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Read the full story in BBC News.
By Nancy A. Melville
Patients receiving kidneys transplanted from donors with either resolved or active COVID-19 show no greater risk of poor outcomes or death, shows new research, which also indicates that the reluctance to use those kidneys early in the pandemic appears to be waning.
“This cohort study found that the likelihood of nonuse of COVID-19–positive donor kidneys decreased over time and, for kidneys procured in 2023, donor COVID-19 positivity was no longer associated with higher odds of nonuse,” write the authors in their study, published today in JAMA Network Open.
Read more in Medscape.
Ryan Scoble thought he had the flu. He soon learned he was in heart failure and needed a transplant. Still, he hoped to return to the lacrosse field.
By Meghan Holohan
Two years ago, Ryan Scoble was playing lacrosse when he felt short of breath and fatigued. He wondered if he had the flu.
“I was struggling in warmups. I got in late in the third quarter,” the 23-year-old lacrosse long stick middie from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, told TODAY’s Harry Smith. “I was struggling to make plays and even really stand up.”
Read the full story on Today.
By Caitlyn Stulpin
The incidence of myocarditis/pericarditis among veterans was low across more than 10 million doses of messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines, given as a primary or booster dose, administered at the Veterans Health Administration, researchers found.
“We conducted this study because we were interested in estimating the incidence rate of myocarditis, pericarditis and myopericarditis following a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine across the Veterans Health Administration (VHA),” Jing Luo, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, told Healio. Read more in Healio.
If you need a kidney transplant, you must first be evaluated for a transplant by a transplant center (a hospital that does transplants – not every hospital does them). The evaluation is used to make sure you’re a good candidate for a transplant. This must happen before any potential living donors can be considered. Read more from National Kidney Foundation here.
Having an organ transplant can feel like a new lease on life!
You find that you can suddenly do more of the things that you enjoy. However, new recipients are sometimes overwhelmed with all the requirements of post-transplant living. Read the full story on CareDx.com.
By Rose Conlon
OLATHE, Kansas — Last year, Gary Gray’s liver disease got so bad that it began poisoning his mind, sucking him into imaginary conversations with people who weren’t there.
At one point, he became convinced that his family had turned their home into a commercial haunted house. Check out the full story on NPR.
By Michael Monostra
Adults who are diagnosed with diabetes at a younger age have an increased risk for developing dementia, but researchers found no association between prediabetes and dementia risk, according to study data published in Diabetologia.
“We believe delaying prediabetes progression may potentially have a broad public health impact,” Michael Fang, PhD, assistant scientist in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Healio. Read more in Healio.
Nearly half of adults in the United States (47%, or 116 million) have high blood pressure, increasing their risk of severe medical conditions like kidney disease, heart disease, eye damage, and stroke. Despite these risks, only about 1 out of every 4 people with high blood pressure have their condition under control. This may sound scary, but NKF is here to help you start taking control of your blood pressure today. Read more from the National Kidney Foundation.
By Natasha Persaud
Kidney stones develop in approximately 2% of first-time kidney transplant recipients within 3 years following transplantation, a rate that is “not rare,” according to investigators.
“Kidney stone events in patients who receive a kidney transplant are consequential,” Calyani Ganesan, MD, MS, of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues wrote in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Read the full story in Renal & Urology News.