{"id":7768,"date":"2023-12-04T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:03:36","slug":"rude-awakening-on-trying-to-keep-donor-hearts-usable-with-common-hormone-infusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/12\/04\/rude-awakening-on-trying-to-keep-donor-hearts-usable-with-common-hormone-infusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rude Awakening on Trying to Keep Donor Hearts Usable With Common Hormone Infusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7768\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>\u2014 Long-standing practice of levothyroxine supplementation fails in randomized trial<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By Nicole Lou<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving unstable brain-dead heart donors intravenous levothyroxine did not lead to more hearts being transplanted, a randomized trial showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In hemodynamically unstable potential donors, administering the thyroid hormone supplement after brain death did not significantly improve donor heart utilization compared with saline placebo, with transplantation rates of 54.9% and 53.2%, respectively (adjusted risk ratio 1.01, 95% CI 0.97-1.07), reported Rajat Dhar, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, and colleagues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/transplantation\/hearttransplantation\/107620\">Read the article<\/a> in MedPage Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7768\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading \u2014 Long-standing practice of levothyroxine supplementation fails in randomized trial By Nicole Lou Giving unstable brain-dead heart donors intravenous levothyroxine did not lead to more hearts being transplanted, a &hellip; 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