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Walking daily correlates with high health-related quality of life in adults with CKD

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Adults with chronic kidney disease who walked between 7,000 and 12,000 steps a day reported high health-related quality of life, according to data published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition.

“Recent studies have shown that walking, as a daily form exercise in patients with CKD, may improve cardiopulmonary function, and regulate blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid levels in patients with CKD; moreover, it plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life of CKD patients,” JiachuanXiong, MD, from the department of nephrology at the Key Laboratory for the Prevention and Treatment of CKD of Chongqing Clinical Research Center of Kidney and Urology Diseases in Xinqiao Hospital at Army Medical University in China, and colleagues wrote. Read the full story.

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Survival High With Lung Transplant for COVID-19-Associated ARDS

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MONDAY, Feb. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Lung transplantation is successful for patients with COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with high survival, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Chitaru Kurihara, M.D., from Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues conducted a retrospective case series of 102 patients who underwent a lung transplant between Jan. 21, 2020, and Sept. 30, 2021, including 30 patients with COVID-19-associated ARDS.
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CDC Cuts Booster Interval for the Immunocompromised

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The CDC updated its interim guidance on COVID-19 vaccination to give immunocompromised people a shorter wait for their booster shot.

It is now recommended that people who are moderately or severely immunocompromised receive a booster 3 months — down from 5 months previously — after the third dose of an mRNA vaccine, for a total of four doses. Previewed at last week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), this change was attributed to concern about the immune response and loss of mRNA protection over time for these patients.
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On National Donor Day, organ recipient breaks down misinformation

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On New Year’s Day, USC junior Selah Kitchiner floated down Colorado Boulevard on a conveyance both dazzling and ephemeral. The purple and gold 2022 Donate Life Rose Parade float was covered in roses, sunflowers and seaweed with Venetian columns and arches that rose two stories. Kitchiner was just above street level, posing as a gondolier, oar in hand. No rowing was required, though she did plenty of waving during her hour-long Rose Parade ride.

“I waved to anybody with a USC chair or sweatshirt, anybody who made eye contact,” Kitchiner said. “If a spectator was daydreaming and they saw me wave at them, they would kind of snap out of it.” Read the full story.

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Doctor to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for living kidney donation

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As an emergency physician at FirstHealth of the Carolinas, endurance athlete and anonymous kidney donor, Matthew Harmody, M.D., has never been one to shy away from difficult, impactful work. His next challenge combines physical fortitude and living kidney donation advocacy as he joins 21 other kidney donors to climb the world’s largest free-standing mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, Africa.

The One Kidney Climb is coordinated by the nonprofit organization Kidney Donor Athletes (KDA) to bring attention to the need for living kidney donors and demonstrate that one can donate a kidney and still live a healthy and active lifestyle. The group is scheduled to reach Mount Kilimanjaro’s summit — 19,341 feet above sea level — on World Kidney Day, March 10, 2022. Read the full story here.

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Diabetes After a Transplant

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What is “new-onset diabetes” after transplant?

Even if you did not have diabetes before, you may develop diabetes after an organ transplant. This type of diabetes is called “new-onset diabetes” after transplant. It is also called “NODAT” for short. New-onset diabetes can occur as a side effect of the medications that you need to prevent rejection of your new organ. Read more.

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Pregnancy and CKD: Making it Possible, and the Legacy of Dr Susan Hou

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It took a strong woman to pioneer research in the field of women’s health and certainly Dr Susan Hou was one. During her career, she worked tirelessly to help us understand chronic kidney disease (CKD) and pregnancy; let’s not forget those were the times when “Children of women with renal disease used to be born dangerously or not at all – not at all if their doctors had their way.” Nowadays, although many unanswered questions remain, we have much more knowledge to guide us through the counseling and care of women with CKD who desire to become mothers, as reviewed by Oliverio et al. Read the full blog here.

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Maryland Woman, Surgeon Run Marathon Together After Heart Transplant

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A Maryland woman competed in a marathon after recovering from a heart transplant— and brought her surgeon along for the ride. She shared her remarkable road to recovery with News4.

“I’ve been a runner since as far as I can remember. My mom used to tell me that she used to catch me by grabbing my pigtails. It’s my happy place,” Jayde Kelly said.

But one day, it came to a sudden stop. Read the full story here.

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A Twist on Stem Cell Transplants Could Help Blood Cancer Patients

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CATHY DOYLE FELT fine. And in April 2016, when she logged in to a web portal to check the results of some routine blood work, the little numbers on the screen agreed—mostly. But her white blood cell count looked low. She called the doctor’s office. “What’s going on?” the chatty, spiritual 58-year-old from Pittsburgh remembers saying.

The staff asked if she’d recently been sick. She had. Doyle caught a bad cough on a family cruise, but it had passed. That might be it, they agreed, but it would be best to come in for more blood tests. “Bless the doctor,” Doyle says. “He just kept hoping it wouldn’t be leukemia.” Read more here.

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