Antegrade treatment approaches may yield the highest stone-free rates for patients with de novo nephrolithiasis in kidney grafts, according to new study findings.
In a systematic review of 37 retrospective studies, investigators identified 553 patients with de novo stones in the transplanted kidney.
Read more in Renal & Urology News.
By Sean Gorman
Mary Small and Janell Hull didn’t know one other before they were each brought to the hospital late last year for a heart transplant.
But they already had so much in common by the time they arrived at VCU Health Pauley Heart Center’s intensive care unit. Both had endured years-long battles with declining heart health while taking their own paths to the same destination of a lifesaving transplant from the team at Hume-Lee Transplant Center. Read the full story from VCUHealth News Center.
The Cleveland Clinic reached an institutional milestone in 2022, with 1,050 heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lung transplants, surpassing its previous record high set in 2021, according to a press release.
“We want to thank organ donors and their families who make the gift of life possible,” Charles Miller, MD, enterprise director of transplantation at Cleveland Clinic, said in the release. Read the full story in Healio.
A review of 23 studies found that evidence of kidney disease before a liver transplant is the strongest predictor of kidney disease afterward.
Since the first liver transplant was performed at the University of Colorado 60 years ago, the procedure has evolved into life-saving surgery for countless patients with end-stage liver disease around the world. In the U.S., there are just over 9,200 liver transplants performed in 2021. Read more in Managed Healthcare Executive.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — While the evaluation process and placement of patients on the transplant waitlist can be a challenge, maintaining their readiness has equal importance, a speaker at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit said. Read more in Healio.
Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.
From fad diets to two-hour workouts, there isn’t a diet or workout regimen that Roque didn’t try. Read the full story in News Medical Life Sciences.
A review of 23 studies found that evidence of kidney disease prior to a liver transplant is the strongest predictor kidney disease afterward.
Since the first liver transplant was performed at the University of Colorado 60 years ago, the procedure has evolved into life-saving surgery for countless patients with end-stage liver disease around the world. In the U.S., there are just over 9,200 liver transplants performed in 2021. Read more in Urology Times.
Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to get the liver, dodging racers in the Philadelphia Half-Marathon.
With the clock ticking on his precious cargo of a human liver for transplant surgery, a van driver made good time on his way from New York to Philadelphia on a Saturday morning in November.
Until he ran into thousands who were racing against a different clock: runners competing in the Dietz & Watson Philadelphia Half Marathon.
Read the full story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jason D. Goldman, M.D., from the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and colleagues compared organ utilization and recipient outcomes between SARS-CoV-2 NAT-positive and NAT-negative donors. Organs were recovered from 617 NAT-positive donors from all Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network regions and 53 of 57 organ procurement organizations from May 27, 2021, to Jan. 31, 2022.
Read more in Medical Xpress.
The following is the summary of “Outcomes of lung transplantation from donors with a history of substance abuse” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Donahoe, et al. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.