ALLMedicine™ Organ Transplantation Center

Jan 15th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease-2019 has created unprecedented challenges for society, and specifically the medical community. While the pandemic continues to unfold, the transplant community has had to pivot to keep recipients, donors, and institutional tran...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments used to collect data about the subjective assessment of medical care from the patient perspective. Implementing PROMs within pediatric clinical settings has gained increasing i...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Trauma patients may present with nonsurvivable injuries, which could be resuscitated for future organ transplantation. Trauma surgeons face an ethical dilemma of deciding whether, when, and how to resuscitate a patient who will not directly benefi...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is common after solid organ transplantation (SOT) and associated with increased morbidity and mortality for allograft recipients. Despite the significant burden of disease, there is a paucity of literature ...

Jan 11th, 2021 - Machine learning has recently been proposed as a useful tool in many fields of Medicine, with the aim of increasing diagnostic and prognostic accuracy. Models based on machine learning have been introduced in the setting of solid organ transplanta...

Jul 1st, 2020 - Chronic metabolic alterations such as post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM), dyslipidaemias and overweight/obesity significantly impact on kidney transplant (KT) outcomes. This joint position statement is based on the evidence on the management...

Jun 6th, 2020 - Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is a standard diagnostic and monitoring tool employed in the management of patients undergoing an entire spectrum of cardiac surgical procedures, ranging from "routine" surgical coronary revasculariz...

Dec 13th, 2019 - ASHP Guidelines on Pharmacy Services in Solid Organ Transplantation.|2019|Maldonado AQ,Hall RC,Pilch NA,Ensor CR,Anders S,|organization & administration,organization & administration,

Mar 29th, 2018 - Despite recent advances, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections remain one of the most common complications affecting solid organ transplant recipients, conveying higher risks of complications, graft loss, morbidity, and mortality. Research in the field...

Dec 31st, 2017 - Improved therapy has substantially increased survival of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF). But the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in adults with CF is 5-10 times greater compared to the general population, and 25-30 times greater in CF patients ...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease-2019 has created unprecedented challenges for society, and specifically the medical community. While the pandemic continues to unfold, the transplant community has had to pivot to keep recipients, donors, and institutional tran...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments used to collect data about the subjective assessment of medical care from the patient perspective. Implementing PROMs within pediatric clinical settings has gained increasing i...

Jan 13th, 2021 - Trauma patients may present with nonsurvivable injuries, which could be resuscitated for future organ transplantation. Trauma surgeons face an ethical dilemma of deciding whether, when, and how to resuscitate a patient who will not directly benefi...

Jan 12th, 2021 - Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is common after solid organ transplantation (SOT) and associated with increased morbidity and mortality for allograft recipients. Despite the significant burden of disease, there is a paucity of literature ...

Jan 11th, 2021 - Machine learning has recently been proposed as a useful tool in many fields of Medicine, with the aim of increasing diagnostic and prognostic accuracy. Models based on machine learning have been introduced in the setting of solid organ transplanta...

May 11th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sharp drop in organ transplantation in the United States and France, a new report in The Lancet shows. From late February to early April, deceased donor transplantations fell by 51.1% ...

Aug 26th, 2019 - Deceased-donor kidneys are twice as likely to be discarded in the United States as they are in France, according to a study published online August 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. "The high discard rate of deceased-donor kidneys is a major concern f...

Aug 26th, 2019 - Deceased-donor kidneys are twice as likely to be discarded in the United States as they are in France, according to a study published online August 26 in JAMA Internal Medicine. "The high discard rate of deceased-donor kidneys is a major concern f...

Aug 26th, 2019 - From 2004 to 2014, the U.S. was twice as likely to discard potential donor kidneys than was France, with researchers suggesting the latter country had the better approach. In a head-to-head comparison, the U.S. discard rate for deceased-donor kidn...

Jun 16th, 2019 - Researchers have found a way to use a pair of enzymes from a human gut bacterium to convert type A to the universal donor type O blood, according to a report published June 10 in Nature Microbiology. The researchers say the high activity and speci...