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Online Heart Transplant Resources Overly Complex

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Resources require high literacy levels and often lack translation to other languages

Left Digit Bias Seen in Acceptance of Organs for Donation

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5.4 percent decrease seen in probability of any organ placement at age 70 versus 69 years

ACS: Livers Have Potential to Function for >100 Years

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None of the grafts with a cumulative age of 100 years were lost to primary nonfunction or to vascular/biliary complications

Wait Times for Pediatric Heart Transplants Longer During Pandemic

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Despite longer waiting list times, graft and recipient survival maintained and waiting list mortality unchanged

Use of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Low in U.S., U.K., Canada

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One-, five-, 10-year patient survival was 92.6, 82.8, 70.0 percent in United States; 96.1, 89.9, and 82.2 percent in Canada

Race-Free Creatinine Equation May Cut Disparity in Kidney Wait Time

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Racial disparities in preemptive wait time accrual may be reduced with use of the 2021 creatinine-based CKD-EPI equation

Outcomes of Living, Unrelated Donor Kidney Transplants in Children Examined

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Graft survival comparable for living unrelated donor, living related donor kidney recipients

FDA Approves Imbruvica for Pediatric Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease

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Approval is for chronic disease after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy

Patient Preferences for Choices in Kidney Transplant Examined

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Average patient would accept kidney today with 6.5 years of expected graft survival to avoid two years of extra wait time for better kidney

Drop Seen in Transplantation in 2020 With COVID-19 Pandemic

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Decrease noted in transplants and in waitlist registrations for transplants compared with those expected