Med Page Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- In late November, HHS issued a final rule updating transplant regulations to enable every U.S. transplant center to transplant kidneys and livers from donors with HIV into recipients with HIV -- this is a milestone to be recognized.

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DAIC

JULY 3, 2024

Jon Kobashigawa, MD, of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is an expert in heart transplantation, heart failure, and other complex cardiac conditions. Kobashigawa will also represent the American Society of Transplantation in discussions with government agencies and policymakers about organ transplant legislation. “Dr.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 24, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the first-ever patient to undergo combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery, doctors announced. The patient, Lisa Pisano, had heart failure and end.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 30, 2025

Findings suggest the benefits of combined belatacept and tacrolimus immunosuppression after kidney transplantation for patient and all-cause graft survival.

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Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

MARCH 1, 2024

Long-term organ transplant survival remains suboptimal, and life-long immunosuppression predisposes transplant recipients to an increased risk of infection, malignancy, and kidney toxicity. We showed selective and sustainable Treg expansion by mIL-2 in 2 murine models of skin transplantation.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 27, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- In August, we reported on the decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to not pursue a proposed Medicare policy that would have restricted coverage of a blood test used to monitor for transplant rejection.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Alcohol relapses were detected more frequently after the introduction of phosphatidylethanol in orthotopic liver transplant recipients.

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HCPLive

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The study found that, following gradual policy changes, children with acute liver failure requiring a transplant now face a reduced risk of both mortality and graft failure from 1989.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Normothermic machine perfusion in liver transplants improves preservation, reduces early complications, and shows promise in complex cases.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 13, 2025

Pediatric liver transplant centers with greater within-center variability in induction type had higher rates of 1-year rejection.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 2, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The newborn that received the world's first partial heart transplant in 2022 continued to do well a year later, according to a case report from the transplant team. Born with type A2 persistent truncus arteriosus and irreparable.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More than 4,500 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. While the lifesaving operation improves the quality of life and longevity for most recipients, organ rejection remains a risk, with acute rejection occurring in up to 32% of recipients within the first year.

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HCPLive

MAY 26, 2024

The phase 2 NOBLE trial shows pegcetacoplan reduces disease activity in post-transplant C3G and IC-MPGN, with benefits persisting through the 40-week double-blind period.

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HCPLive

AUGUST 26, 2024

A study found that women with trauma history have reduced liver transplant access compared to men, with gender disparities not driven by psychiatric symptoms.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 10, 2024

Younger age at the time of kidney transplantation, faster progression to end-stage renal disease, a history of kidney transplantation, and no induction therapy were associated with IgAN recurrence, which was linked to poorer graft survival.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

© THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE 2024 milla1cf Tue, 02/13/2024 - 17:56 February 13, 2024 — Pediatric heart transplantation has long been hailed as a life-saving intervention for children suffering from end-stage heart failure. This helps us gain a comprehensive understanding of the immune response dynamics within transplanted hearts."

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HCPLive

MARCH 19, 2024

Iron deficiency, independent of anemia, may be a potentially modifiable target to improve patient-reported outcomes after kidney transplantation.

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HCPLive

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More than half of patients who received a pancreas transplant alone experienced >50% decline in eGFR, had eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73 m2, and/or received a kidney transplant 10 years after their initial pancreas transplant.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mitochondrial transplantation provides a novel methodology for rescue of cell viability and cell function following ischemia-reperfusion injury and applications for other pathologies are expanding. In this review we present our methods and acquired data and evidence accumulated to support the use of mitochondrial transplantation.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 22, 2024

Geovanni Faddoul, MD, discusses findings from his recent study examining the impact of induction and maintenance therapy on IgAN recurrence, graft survival, and mortality in kidney transplantation.

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Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- NBA champion and "Survivor" contestant Scot Pollard is "awake and feeling great" a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. Scot has a new heart!" Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on X, formerly.

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HCPLive

MARCH 11, 2025

The Kidney Transplant Fast Track evaluation approach was associated with a higher likelihood of waitlisting and fewer disparities by race or ethnicity.

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HCPLive

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This retrospective analysis examined the current management of early and late anemia in a representative sample of the kidney transplant population in Spain.

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HCPLive

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Heplisav-B provided a greater vaccine completion rate and higher HBV seroprotection than the conventional 3-dose Recombivax HB in thoracic organ transplant candidates.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Findings suggest segregated residential and transplant center neighborhoods contribute to racial disparities in access to living donor kidney transplantation.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 18, 2024

New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital performed the first "domino" heart transplant on babies, according to an American Hospital Association report.

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Nature Reviews - Cardiology

MAY 20, 2024

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 21 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-01041-x A study in Nature describes a single-cell-type strategy for vascular cell therapies that involves the artificial transplantation of mitochondria to endothelial cells, which promotes mitophagy and facilitates the formation of functional vessels in ischaemic tissue (..)

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Heart transplant patient Eddie Garcia was "feeling like a million bucks" one day in the summer of 2021. He had just gotten back from a 3-mile walk, something he couldn't do prior to his transplant in 2020 -.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Heart transplant patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience post-surgical complications and die within five years than patients who live in more advantaged areas, even when those patients were transplanted at topnotch high-volume hospitals.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JANUARY 3, 2024

The world's first partial heart transplant has achieved what researchers have spent more than a year hoping for—functioning valves and arteries that grow along with the young patient, as hypothesized by the pioneering team behind the procedure at Duke Health.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2024

Advanced heart failure (AdvHF) can only be treated definitively by heart transplantation (HTx), yet problems such right ventricle dysfunction (RVD), rejection, cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), and primary graft dysfunction (PGD) are linked to a poor prognosis.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 12, 2024

Liver transplantation after prolonged preservation with dual hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion yielded similar outcomes to standard perfusion, showing no compromised donor liver quality and equal safety for recipients.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

For patients who are candidates for renal transplantation (RT), major surgeries such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are associated with cardiac complications as well as higher rates of post-operative complications, including the need for large amounts of blood transfusion, worsening kidney function, infection, and graft rejection.

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HCPLive

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

New data from the UNOS database presented at NASPGHAN 2024 details characteristics and outcomes of pediatric liver transplant patients receiving machine perfused organs.

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HCPLive

MARCH 1, 2024

of patients who were treated for HCV with DAA therapy and underwent renal transplantation did not experience HCV recurrence. Results showed 95.8%

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2024, Boston-based Tufts Medical Center performed 70 adult heart transplants, breaking its 2023 record by nine and setting the New England region record for the second year in a row.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Receiving a heart transplant is a matter of life and death for many patients. Every time a heart becomes available, a "match run" is created to generate a list of transplant candidates ranked by an algorithm based on medical urgency, geography and pediatric status.

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