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Kidney Transplant Outcomes Improved Over Past Quarter-Century

Patient and graft survival rates have increased since 1996

A woman with a scar on her abdomen from liver transplant surgery.

Liver Transplant Sex Disparities Vanish With Living-Donor Access

Women who qualified for deceased donor organs had significantly worse MELD scores

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Time to Break the Abstinence Rule Before Liver Transplants?

Small study suggests alternative criteria to the "6-month rule" may be needed

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Ethics Consult: Is Oil Tycoon's Billboard for Liver Donor Ethical? MD/JD Weighs In

You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion

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Call in the T-Cell Cavalry to Fight COVID in the Immunocompromised

Preliminary research suggests immunotherapy could play role in protecting vaccine non-responders

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Shingrix OK'd for Immunocompromised Adults

CDC's vaccine committee currently discussing vaccine for this population, manufacturer says

FDA APPROVED Tacrolimus (Prograf) over a computer rendering of a lung in a metal dish with surgical tools.

FDA Breaks New Ground With Transplant Drug Approval

No prospective trial offered or required

FDA ADCOMM Transmedics OCS Liver over a photo of the device.

FDA Panel Nearly Unanimous on Liver Transplant Perfusion Device

Thumbs up on safety and efficacy

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Academic Cardiologists Singled Out for Gender Equality Problem

Women still poorly represented, paid in procedural internal medicine specialties

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Some Liver Transplant Patients Got Hepatitis B From Donors

Injection drug use may be mostly to blame, researcher says

FDA SAFETY Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) products over a computer rendering of blood platelets and a bag of Hydroxyethyl starch

FDA Piles on New Warnings for Blood Volume Expanders

Hydroxyethyl starch products shouldn't be used for low blood volume unless no other options exist

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Cases of Rare Liver Complication Seen With Severe COVID-19

Higher prevalence of condition in COVID patients than influenza patients, researcher says

EASL over a computer rendering of a liver

Novel Liver Assist Device Safe for Patients With Cirrhosis

Small preliminary trial also shows hints of promising clinical results

EASL over a computer rendering of a liver

Liver Fibrosis Linked to Lower Response to COVID Vaccine

Third dose may be needed in this population as well as some transplant patients, says researcher

Diagram of normothermic regional perfusion of abdominal organs in preparation for transplantation

ACP: Pump the Brakes on New Organ Procurement Method

Organization says NRP-cDCD may violate dead-donor rule

FDA WARNING Medtronic HeartWare left ventricular assist device above a photo of the device in the palm of a mans hand

Medtronic's LVAD Pulled From Market Due to Neurological, Mortality Risks

Physicians must stop implanting the HeartWare system, says FDA

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Here's Why This Doc Got a Third Vaccine Dose

A transplant surgeon, a heart recipient himself, saw robust antibody response after third dose

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Op-Ed: Why the COVID Vaccine Didn't Work for Me

Millions of transplant patients need to be informed that they may not get sufficient protection

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Thiotepa-Based Conditioning Promising for Primary CNS Lymphoma

Commonly used regimens with autologous transplant improved survival

Surgeons perform a liver transplant.

Is Dynamic AFP-R Key to Transplant Selection in Liver Cancer?

Dynamic alpha-fetoprotein response improved prediction of patient outcomes

A vial of Tranexamic Acid Injection over a computer rendering of a thrombosis

Reassuring Data on Tranexamic Acid and Blood Clots

Yet concerns of thrombotic complications remain

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NKF 2021: Skewed Transplant Waitlists; Daft Diabetes Care

Other noteworthy research presented at the National Kidney Foundation's annual meeting

NKF over a computer rendering of kidney disease

Pegloticase Safe for Dialysis Patients With Gout

Significant drop in monthly ESA dose seen after treatment, too

FDA ADCOMM TransMedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart over a photo of the device

Donor Heart Preserver Survives Review by FDA Advisors

Panel had many bones to pick with the Transmedics OCS device

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Language Matters During This 'Exciting Time' in Heart Failure

A rethinking of what heart failure is and how to communicate with patients

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Ethics Consult: Boozy Athlete's Liver Transplant Ethical? MD/JD Weighs In

You voted, now see the results and an expert's discussion

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Ethics Consult: Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Baseball Legend?

You make the call

Surgeons in the operating room successfully completing a lung transplant.

'COVID-to-COVID' Double Lung Transplant Performed

Northwestern calls February procedure a success, opens door to more

A kidney transplant scar healing after surgery with peritoneal dialysis tubing protruding from the belly.

Is it OK to Cut Back on Prednisone After Kidney Transplant?

15-year follow-up data support the use of early steroid cessation

STS over a computer rendering of a transparent body with the heart and lungs highlighted

Some of Last Year's Deferred Cardiac Surgeries Likely Still in Backlog

Report describes effect of COVID on surgical case volumes, outcomes

Surgeons practice on a surgical dummy

Op-Ed: Gym for Surgeons?

To perform like athletes, surgeons need to train like athletes

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Gland Larceny: When Testicle Thefts Took Chicago by Storm

Male rejuvenation craze sparked kidnappings and organ harvesting

ASH over a computer rendering of blood flowing through an artery

JAK Inhibitor Wins in Second-Line Chronic GVHD

Twice as many patients achieved a response at week 24

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Bone Marrow Improves Healing With ACL Grafts

MRI confirms better outcomes than with allograft alone in randomized study

A computer rendering of the human heart cut in half with a scalpel between the two halves

Patient's Ventricles Removed as Bridge to Heart Transplant

Rare therapy a variation of BIVAD support

AP Cardiology over a computer rendering of a heart beat

Bariatric Surgery in Heart Failure

Andrew Perry, MD, delves into its role with Radha Gopalan, MD

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More Hospitals Offering Uterus Transplant

More transplant programs opening outside of clinical trials, but questions about cost and access remain

CHEST over a computer rendering of a transparent human torso with the pulmonary system highlighted

Higher Donor BMI Tied to Improved Lung Transplant Survival

Mortality reduction when lung came from obese donor, retrospective study finds

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Hospital Debates Penis Transplant in Transgender Patient

Landmark procedure could revolutionize sex-reassignment surgery

The cover of the book THE ORGAN THIEVES by Chip Jones.

Surgeons Stole Black Man's Heart for White Businessman

First heart transplant in the segregated south

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