Transplant
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No COVID vax, no transplant: Unfair or good medicine?
Is removing them from the list unfair and cruel, or simply business as usual?
From the Journals
HIV+ patients get good outcomes after kidney or liver transplant
New research further supports the inclusion of people with HIV in transplant resource allocation.
Feature
Lung transplantation in the era of COVID-19: New issues and paradigms
From the Journals
U.S. kidney transplants grow in number and success
Data from 1996 to 2019 show more U.S. kidney transplants recently than ever before, and steady improvements in graft and patient survival.
Conference Coverage
Not so crazy: Pancreas transplants in type 2 diabetes rising
Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants are increasingly performed in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
From the Journals
Third COVID-19 vaccine dose helped some transplant recipients
All of those with low titers before the third dose had high titers after receiving the extra shot, in case series.
FDA/CDC
FDA panel supports islet cell treatment for type 1 diabetes
Voting 12-4 to support approval, panel members expressed concern about toxicity of long-term immunosuppression, particularly given the advances in...
FDA/CDC
OCS heart system earns hard-won backing of FDA panel
The nonbinding vote moves forward the device, which advocates hailed as a potentially transformative step for heart transplantation.
From the Journals
Study: Good overall survival in older patients after liver transplant for HCC
From the Journals
‘Excellent short-term outcomes’ seen in HCV+ liver transplants to HCV– recipients
From the Journals
Sex-based disparities in liver allocation driven by organ size mismatch, MELD score
Compared with men, women were 14.4% less likely to receive a transplant, and 8.6% more likely to die on the wait list.