Tag: Organ Transplants
Machine Perfusion of Kidneys Protects Against Delayed Graft Function
Outcomes after transplant better with machine perfusion, combination therapy than with therapeutic hypothermia among brain-dead kidney donors
Epstein-Barr Viral Load Monitoring May Reduce Risk After Liver Transplant
Epstein-Barr virus viral load monitoring may reduce incidence of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease
Lung Composite Allocation Score System Cuts Waiting-List Mortality
All Composite Allocation Score scenarios examined led to improved measures of equity compared with current Lung Allocation Score system
Online Heart Transplant Resources Overly Complex
Resources require high literacy levels and often lack translation to other languages
Left Digit Bias Seen in Acceptance of Organs for Donation
5.4 percent decrease seen in probability of any organ placement at age 70 versus 69 years
ACS: Livers Have Potential to Function for >100 Years
None of the grafts with a cumulative age of 100 years were lost to primary nonfunction or to vascular/biliary complications
Wait Times for Pediatric Heart Transplants Longer During Pandemic
Despite longer waiting list times, graft and recipient survival maintained and waiting list mortality unchanged
Use of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Low in U.S., U.K., Canada
One-, five-, 10-year patient survival was 92.6, 82.8, 70.0 percent in United States; 96.1, 89.9, and 82.2 percent in Canada
Race-Free Creatinine Equation May Cut Disparity in Kidney Wait Time
Racial disparities in preemptive wait time accrual may be reduced with use of the 2021 creatinine-based CKD-EPI equation
Outcomes of Living, Unrelated Donor Kidney Transplants in Children Examined
Graft survival comparable for living unrelated donor, living related donor kidney recipients
