Tag: Organ Transplants
Model Developed for Prioritizing Patients Waiting for Lung Transplant
Those who died on waiting list had lower numerical rankings ascribed by multistate model than Composite Allocation Score
High-Risk Patients Awaiting Liver Transplant Benefit Most From Living Donors
Benefit was most evident in wait-listed cirrhosis patients with moderate-to-severe frailty
Sarcopenia Worsens Liver Transplant Outcomes for Patients With Cirrhosis
Sarcopenia tied to longer intensive care unit stay, more major complications, higher postoperative mortality
Promising Outcomes Seen for Living Kidney Donors With HIV
Glomerular filtration rates decreased at two to four years of follow-up for the first three living kidney donors with HIV
Race-Specific Approach to Spirometry Disadvantages Black Patients
Differences in lung allocation score most pronounced for patients with pulmonary vascular disease and restrictive lung disease
Racial Disparities Seen Among Hospitalized Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis
Findings seen for Black and Hispanic versus White patients for liver transplantation and mortality
Technical Variant Graft Usage Affects Pediatric Liver Transplant Waitlist Mortality
Higher technical variant graft usage from living or deceased donor linked to lower waitlist mortality in pediatric liver transplant candidates
Letermovir Noninferior for CMV Prophylaxis in Kidney Recipients
Findings in cytomegalovirus-seronegative kidney transplant recipients who receive organ from cytomegalovirus-seropositive donors
Survival Noninferior With Heart Donated After Circulatory Death
Risk-adjusted six-month survival noninferior for patients receiving heart from circulatory-death, brain-death donor
Lung Transplants From COVID-19-Positive Donors May Be Feasible
Data from 47 carefully selected transplants show early posttransplant outcomes are similar to those seen with COVID-19-negative donors