Articles Tagged With: transplant
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Novel Method Proposed to Optimize Care Coordination
Healthcare organizations need new methods to improve care coordination and patient-centered care. A co-author of a recent study proposes a method to determine whether a patient needs primary care or specialty care, naming the categories as “lifer” and “destination.”
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Living Donor Liver Transplant Raises Multiple Ethical Questions
Living donor liver transplantation could save more lives, but a lack of public awareness about the procedure, the lack of qualified surgeons available to perform the operation, and fears about the donor's long-term health all are obstacles to expansion.
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Cardiac Xenotransplantation Could Fill the Organ Donor Gap, But Is It Ethical?
There are not enough organs for heart failure patients who need them, and cardiac xenotransplantation is one potential, albeit controversial, solution.
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Recommendations Target Making Improvements in U.S. Organ Transplant System
The authors aimed for equity, transparency, and efficiency.
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Is a Cure for HIV Possible Without Stem Cell Transplantation?
In a 30-year-old woman with HIV not on antiretroviral therapy (the “Esperanza patient”), an analysis of 1.188 billion peripheral blood mononuclear cells and 503 million mononuclear cells from placental tissue revealed no genome-intact or replication-competent HIV-1 proviruses. This indicates a sterilizing cure of HIV-1 infection.
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Cytomegalovirus Viremia in Liver Transplant Recipients
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) viremia emerges in the majority of CMV seronegative recipients of liver transplants from CMV seropositive donors, most often within the first post-transplant month. The only independent risk factor identified was increasing donor age. -
Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Fatal ESBL Infection from Fecal Microbiota Transplant; Second Joint Infection When One Prosthetic Gets Infected?
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Revised Policy on Organ Transplants for Children with Disabilities Targets Discrimination
Children with disabilities can be organ donors, contributing to the supply. Excluding these patients as organ recipients would not be fair. A new policy statement does not consider intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) completely irrelevant, but the authors do not consider IDD to be dispositive for listing decisions either.
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Vomiting and Diarrhea in Immunocompromised Patients
Patients who are immunosuppressed may exhibit subtle or atypical presentations of gastrointestinal infection, as well as complications of their underlying disease processes or treatments. Emergency physicians should maintain a high level of suspicion for life-threatening pathology and evaluate these patients using broad differentials.
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Proposed Federal Rules Could Increase Nation’s Organ Supply
Patients who need kidney transplants are front and center under the CMS proposal.