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.
The Board of Directors of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) has approved a mandatory waiting time adjustment for Black kidney transplant candidates disadvantaged by race-based kidney function estimates. The policy revision, which went into effect on January 5, 2023, is a major step toward kidney transplantation equity. Read more in Renal & Urology News.
Testing for coronary heart disease within 12 months before kidney transplantation did not correlate with a change in death or myocardial infarction within 30 days after the transplant, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Therefore, researchers suggest that testing for coronary heart disease (CHD) may not reduce the risk of adverse outcomes after a transplant. Read more in Healio.
Having an organ transplant can feel like a new lease on life!
You find that you can suddenly do more of the things that you enjoy. However, new recipients are sometimes overwhelmed with all the requirements of post-transplant living. Read the full story on CareDx.com.
Specially adapted supercar driven from Padua to Rome to ‘deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life’
Italian police have used a specially adapted Lamborghini supercar to deliver two kidneys to donor patients hundreds of kilometres apart.
“Travelling on the motorway to deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life,” they said in a statement posted on social media, alongside a picture of a medical cool box in a purpose-built compartment at the front of the Huracán.
Read the full story in The Guardian.
At the end of 2007, Ebert Mahon’s family went on a cruise. When he noticed early in 2008 that he was gaining weight, he figured that the cruise’s all-you-can-eat buffets had taken their toll. In his late 40s, Mahon normally tipped the scales at 180 pounds. But soon enough, the number crept to 235. “Could I really have eaten that much on the 10-day trip?” he wondered. Read more about Ebert’s transplant journey on CareDx.com.
“I’d give my kidney for a …”
It’s not the most common idiom being bandied about, but you hear it from time to time, as a means of expressing a strong desire. Rarer, still, is the person who says, “I’d give my kidney.” Period. No qualifiers. Read the story in USA Today.
by Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today December 8, 2022
ORLANDO — Many patients who undergo successful renal transplantation and also have Crohn’s disease were able to avoid immunomodulating or biologic agents to control their gut disease, researchers found.
Of 37 patients with renal transplants who were also diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, 48.6% were off medical therapy for treatment of Crohn’s disease after transplant, reported Marianny Sulbaran, MD, PhD, a fellow in gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read the full story in MedPage Today.
Scott Schneider, 59, misses teaching in-person classes.
Connections with his students and seeing that “ah ha” moment they express when a science concept finally clicks are among the aspects he loves most about the job he’s had for 30 years at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield. Read the story from Michigan Live.
Tarek Alhamad, MD, has witnessed the grief that patients with a kidney transplant experience when they are facing loss of an allograft.
“It is definitely one of the hardest discussions that we could have as transplant nephrologists with the transplant recipient,” Alhamad, associate professor of medicine and medical director of the kidney transplant program in the division of nephrology at the Washington School of Medicine at St. Louis, told Healio/Nephrology News & Issues. “Going back to dialysis is something that would change their life completely with less quality of life and major dependence on a machine to continue to survive.”
Read the full article in Healio.