Tag: Organ Transplants

For Blacks versus Whites, differences in post-LT mortality narrowed between 2002 and 2009, increased between 2014 and 2018

Class I HED of the donor is associated with higher risk for acute and chronic rejection of the liver transplant

Second study shows increased risk for breakthrough COVID-19 infection and associated mortality for SOTRs versus general population

More patients receiving mRNA-1273 booster have serologic response with anti-receptor-binding domain antibody level of at least 100 U/mL

Authorization includes people who have had solid organ transplants and those whose immune systems are equally compromised

Third dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine induces serologic response in 49 percent of kidney recipients who did not respond after two doses

And risk for posttransplant death decreasing despite drug overdose, hepatitis C-positive donors contributing to donor risk

Study supports validity of preference-based health utility score for patients undergoing hemodialysis, recent recipients of kidney transplants

While the risk is small, there have been 20 cases of unexpected donor-derived hepatitis B virus infection

Symptoms remain unchanged for many by transplantation, but improve in the three months after transplantation