{"id":3911,"date":"2022-02-24T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:12:35","slug":"sparing-the-prod-providing-an-alternative-to-endomyocardial-biopsies-with-non-invasive-surveillance-after-heart-transplantation-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/02\/24\/sparing-the-prod-providing-an-alternative-to-endomyocardial-biopsies-with-non-invasive-surveillance-after-heart-transplantation-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparing the Prod: Providing an alternative to endomyocardial biopsies with non-invasive surveillance after heart transplantation during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3911\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced access to endomyocardial biopsy (EMBx) rejection surveillance in heart transplant (HT) recipients. This is the first Canadian study to assess the role for non-invasive rejection surveillance in personalizing titration of immunosuppression (IS) and patient satisfaction post-HT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>METHODS: In this mixed methods prospective cohort study, adult HT recipients more than six months from HT had their routine EMBx replaced by non-invasive rejection surveillance with gene expression profiling (GEP) and donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA). Demographics, outcomes of non-invasive surveillance score, hospital admissions, patient satisfaction, and health status on Medical Outcomes Study 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) were collected and analyzed using\u00a0<em>t<\/em>-tests and chi-squared tests. Thematic qualitative analysis was performed for open-ended responses. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docwirenews.com\/abstracts\/sparing-the-prod-providing-an-alternative-to-endomyocardial-biopsies-with-non-invasive-surveillance-after-heart-transplantation-during-covid-19\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3911\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced access to endomyocardial biopsy (EMBx) rejection surveillance in heart transplant (HT) recipients. This is the first Canadian study to assess the role for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/02\/24\/sparing-the-prod-providing-an-alternative-to-endomyocardial-biopsies-with-non-invasive-surveillance-after-heart-transplantation-during-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sparing the Prod: Providing an alternative to endomyocardial biopsies with non-invasive surveillance after heart transplantation during COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,5],"tags":[264,119,265],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1584","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}