“We celebrated how far we’ve come, but it’s also like, ‘Wow, it took this long for something like this to happen?’” Dr. Charlene Blake tells TODAY.com.
Dr. Amy Fiedler was finishing up a standard heart transplant surgery in December — putting the dressings on the patient and getting ready to transport her the intensive care unit — when she noticed something she’d never seen before. The room was entirely women.
Read the full story in USA Today.
Despite similar kidney transplant outcomes, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) were less likely than the general population to be evaluated for transplant and less likely to receive one, a propensity-score matched analysis found. Read more in Medpage Today.
Recurrent stroke risk has declined over the past 2 decades, with women experiencing a twofold decline compared with men, according to preliminary research presented at the International Stroke Conference.
“Secondary stroke prevention has been successful; however, it has not been as effective among male stroke survivors in recent years,” Chen Chen, MS, lead study author and PhD candidate in epidemiology at the University of Michigan, said in a related release. Read more in Healio.
The following is the summary of “Dynamic changes of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in brain-dead donors and delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients” published in the November 2022 issue of Renal failure by Zhang, et al. To read more, visit Physician’s Weekly.
Greg Olsen has always been a very public-facing figure. It dates all the way back to his days as a star tight end at Miami and his NFL playing days with the Bears, Panthers and Seahawks.
Now, Olsen is a member of the Fox broadcast crew and will be calling Super Bowl 57 alongside Kevin Burkhardt. Read the full story in Sporting News.
For National Donor Day, a columnist shares how organ donation saved her life
Organ donors are ordinary people who make an extraordinary impact. Each day I’m personally reminded of how one decision can change a life. My life was saved because of my donor, who made my double-lung transplant possible five years ago. Each breath I take reminds me of the miraculous gift of organ donation.
For me, National Donor Day on Feb. 14 is a time to remember what I’ve been through and reflect on where I am now. It’s a sobering thought that I would have died without my organ donor. I was in respiratory failure nearly six years ago, and time was running out. The medications had stopped working, and I was getting sicker while in the hospital. The call that saved my life came just at the right time. Read the full story in Cystic Fibrosis News Today.
Therapeutic hypothermia in brain-dead organ donors has been shown to reduce delayed graft function in kidney recipients after transplantation. Data are needed on the effect of hypothermia as compared with machine perfusion on outcomes after kidney transplantation. Read more in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Multilevel interventions, such as standardizing the evaluation process, utilizing telehealth improved access to kidney transplantation for African Americans, according to data published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Read more in Healio.
Among patients with liver failure with renal dysfunction, combined liver-kidney transplantation improves patient survival. However, according to Paolo Vincenzi, MD, and colleagues, kidney delayed graft function is a common and challenging complication that has a negative impact on clinical outcomes. Read more in Nephrology Times.
Part of the function of the kidney is to help you regulate blood pressure.
High blood pressure—known as hypertension—can be common both before and after a kidney or heart transplant. Read the full story on CareDx.com.