In December at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, a trailblazing all-women team performed a heart transplant, marked by a photo capturing the moments after they completed the five-hour procedure. NBC’s Kaylee Hartung reports for TODAY.
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By Greg Garrison
The Transplant Life Foundation has awarded the 2024 Transplant Games of America to Birmingham, officials announced today.
The Games, which will take place July 5-10, 2024, is a national, festival-style, multi-sport event that is expected to attract nearly 10,000 members of the transplant community. Read more on AL.com.
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.
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.
A new data report contains summary level information on the exception request decisions made by the Pediatric National Heart Review Board (NHRB). The board was implemented on June 15, 2021. Before implementation, Regional Review Boards (RRBs) handled and reviewed exception cases for pediatrics candidates. Read more from UNOS.
Fred Hutch study suggests certain immune cells are source of antibodies that attack donated organs
Each day, 13 patients awaiting transplants for severe kidney disease in the U.S. lose their lives before a compatible kidney can be found.
Frequently, it is simply that there are not enough donated organs available, but sometimes it is because the right donor is too rare. Of the 92,000 people in U.S. waiting this year for a kidney transplant, about one in ten will have an especially hard time finding a compatible donor. Read more from the Fred Hutch News Service.
Organ donation and transplantation marks one of the great advances of modern medicine, providing a second chance at life for a patient whose organ(s) is failing or damaged beyond repair from disease or injury.
The Center for Transplantation at UC San Diego Health is a national hub of clinical expertise and research, and the region’s leader in transplantation. Since 1968, the center has performed thousands of transplants under a national standard of care model. Read more in UC San Diego Today.
The United States has a government agency solely devoted to reducing automobile deaths in the United States, and it spends billions of dollars each year—and requires auto companies to do likewise—in an attempt to make our nation’s roads and the cars that travel on them safer.
However, more people die from kidney disease than from automobile accidents, but we lack any concerted effort to reduce these deaths.
Read the full story in Forbes.
You just found out you need an organ transplant. Whether it’s a heart, kidney, liver or lung, there are some key fundamentals to keep in mind as you navigate your transplant journey. Who better to share advice than those who have been through it? Read the full article on CareDx.com.
Cirrhosis of the liver. Cystic fibrosis. Coronary heart disease. These conditions can lead a patient to need a liver, lung or heart transplant operation, respectively, to survive. Unfortunately, if that patient lives in Nevada, they will have to move out of state in order to receive these types of transplantation services. Only one transplant center exists in Southern Nevada, University Medical Center (UMC), which only provides kidney transplantation and services. Read more in Las Vegas Weekly.