Transplant medicine contends with organ shortage and pandemic-related disruptions

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By Caitlyn Stulpin

Transplant medicine and the field of transplant infectious diseases have faced numerous disruptions and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

“The number of transplants declined transiently during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic but are now at the pre-pandemic level and growing overall,” Sarah Taimur, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, told Healio | Infectious Disease News. Read the full story in Healio.

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