Clinic provides diabetes and endocrinology care for patients after transplants
(SACRAMENTO) Did you know diabetes is a common complication following a kidney transplant?
UC Davis Health has established a new transplant endocrinology clinic to improve care of diabetes and other endocrinology disorders for kidney transplant patients. Read more from UC Davis Health News.
Historically, Black patients have had to wait longer for kidney transplants than other races, in part because of an outdated test that overestimated their kidney function. Now, a new national rule will remove the test, which is seen as racially bias, in determining who gets a transplant. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor shares more. Watch the story on NBC Nightly News.
Compared with boys, girls with type 1 diabetes have worse HbA1c, higher BMI and more diabetic ketoacidosis and require higher insulin doses, according to a systematic review published in Diabetologia.
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Project Bell was created to help donate “new beginning” bells to cancer centers after patients complete their treatment.
AUSTIN, Texas — A heart transplant patient at Ascension Seton is getting to ring the “transplant bell” for the first time.
Ascension Seton is expanding the hospital’s capacity to handle complex heart care capabilities to include care like heart transplants. As a way to celebrate the expansion, the hospital has installed a “Heart Transplant Bell” at the Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, and heart transplant patient Raul Rangel, 39, has the honor of ringing the bell for the first time. Check out this story in KVUE.
The following is the summary of “A Contemporary Evaluation of Urological Outcomes After Renal Transplantation” published in the January 2023 issue of Urology by Kennedy, et al.
Patients undergoing urologic procedures after receiving a kidney transplant are at increased risk for infection and other urological problems. Read more in Physician’s Weekly.
Heart-kidney transplantation relative to heart transplantation alone was associated with superior survival regardless of dialysis status and for patients with moderate kidney disease, according to a national transplant registry analysis. Read the full story in Healio.
LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – A man from Lake Havasu City was saved by breakthrough technology used for the first time in Arizona, a ‘heart in a box.’ We first told you about the procedure in December. The ‘heart in a box’ is a game changer for transplants since it doesn’t rely on the donor to be ‘brain dead’ to recover the organ. The recipient Jeff Robinson said he feels like a new man after receiving the new heart. “I feel blessed to have the second chance,” said Robinson. “I’m able to walk farther.” Read or watch the story in Arizona’s Family here.
A virtual reality intervention designed to distract children undergoing a blood draw significantly improved pain and anxiety, highlighting the possibility for virtual reality interventions for other procedures, according to researchers. Read the full story in Healio.
Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and end-stage kidney disease are less likely to be evaluated to kidney transplantation compared to peers without disabilities, according to data published in JAMA Surgery. Read more in Healio.
He is at least the third person cured in this way, which would likely be too risky for patients who don’t also have cancer
A 53-year-old man diagnosed with HIV in 2008 is now free of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant, researchers reported Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.
The German man, known as “the Düsseldorf patient,” is the third confirmed person to be cured of HIV using this treatment, the authors write. Last year, researchers announced that two additional patients had recovered from the virus—including, importantly, a woman of mixed race—but papers on these patients have not been published yet, according to the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Read more in Smithsonian Magazine.