Tag: Organ Transplants
Vaccination Cuts Severe COVID-19 Risk in Heart Transplant Patients
COVID-19 vaccination is not associated with heart transplant-specific adverse events
New Instrument Developed for Assessing Patient Knowledge of CKD
KART 2.0 can differentiate patients who have spent less than one versus one or more hours speaking to health professionals, reading about transplantation
Living-Donor Liver Transplant Promising for CRC With Liver Mets
Recurrence-free survival of 62 percent, overall survival of 100 percent at 1.5 years after LDLT in select patients
Man Who Received First Pig Heart Transplant Has Died
Whether or not his body rejected the foreign organ is still unclear
Scientists Create ‘Universal’ Donor Organs Where Blood Type Does Not Matter
Proof-of-concept study is a significant step toward creating universal type O organs for transplantation
Survival High With Lung Transplant for COVID-19-Associated ARDS
No patients demonstrated antibody-mediated rejection; all recipients alive at follow-up
Postop Anxiety During Care Transitions Reduced With Peer Mentoring
Findings seen among kidney transplant patients who were paired with former patients for 30 days following surgery
Hospital Defends Decision to Deny Heart Transplant to Unvaccinated Man
Other U.S. hospitals have also faced criticism for denying transplants to patients who were not vaccinated against COVID-19
~7 Percent of Lung Transplants Due to COVID-19 Respiratory Failure
Three-month survival 95.6 percent among patients who underwent lung transplant during August 2020 to September 2021
Fourth Vaccine Dose May Up COVID-19 Immunity in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Fourth dose of mRNA vaccine increased antispike IgG titers in some kidney transplant recipients with weak serologic response after three doses
