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CareDx Launches Two Expanded Indications for AlloSure Testing Services

DAIC

The Transplant Company recently announced that AlloSureis now commercially available for pediatric heart transplant patients of all ages and patients who have received a simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant. 1 "The availability of AlloSure dd-cfDNA for all pediatric heart transplant patients is a major development.

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FMT Shows Promise for Type 1 Diabetes, Gastroenteropathy Treatment in Pilot Trial

HCPLive

The randomized trial is the first to assess fecal microbiota transplantation for treating diabetic gastroenteropathy, highlighting its safety and efficacy.

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Longitudinal analysis of viral dynamics in HIV+-to-HIV+ HOPE Act kidney-transplant recipients

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

These donor-derived env sequences were amplified from recipient urine, urine-derived renal epithelial cells, and plasma between 12 and 96 hours after transplant and remained detectable up to 16 days after transplant. years after transplantation as a result of antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption.

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Diabetes Linked to Worse Transplant-Free Survival in Primary Biliary Cholangitis

HCPLive

Diabetes was associated with an increased risk of liver transplant or death and with liver-specific events in patients with PBC.

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GLP-1 RAs Show Benefit for Kidney Transplant Recipients with Diabetes

HCPLive

Kidney transplant recipients who received a GLP-1 RA had a 49% lower incidence of death-censored graft loss and 31% lower mortality.

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Association of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists with cardiovascular and kidney outcomes in type 2 diabetic kidney transplant recipients

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of post-transplant mortality in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), especially those with diabetes. Although glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) hav.

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1/4 of Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Experience Early Hospital Readmission

HCPLive

Factors associated with 30-day readmission were shorter hospital stays after transplant, insurance status, and patient history of diabetes and malignancy.