Tag: Organ Transplants

Findings seen for recipients across solid organ transplant types

Heart had been showing signs of rejection in the days before his death

Those who died on waiting list had lower numerical rankings ascribed by multistate model than Composite Allocation Score

Benefit was most evident in wait-listed cirrhosis patients with moderate-to-severe frailty

Sarcopenia tied to longer intensive care unit stay, more major complications, higher postoperative mortality

Glomerular filtration rates decreased at two to four years of follow-up for the first three living kidney donors with HIV

Differences in lung allocation score most pronounced for patients with pulmonary vascular disease and restrictive lung disease

Findings seen for Black and Hispanic versus White patients for liver transplantation and mortality

Higher technical variant graft usage from living or deceased donor linked to lower waitlist mortality in pediatric liver transplant candidates

Findings in cytomegalovirus-seronegative kidney transplant recipients who receive organ from cytomegalovirus-seropositive donors