ALLMedicine™ Organ Transplantation Center

Dec 4th, 2021 - Recurrent urinary tract infections remain a challenge in solid organ transplant and have a negative impact on morbidity/mortality. The purpose of this program evaluation was to determine the impact of methenamine on recurrent urinary tract infecti...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Mucormycosis represents several unusual opportunistic infection caused by saprophytic aseptate fungi. There is a recent rise in cases of mucormycosis due to an increase in diabetic and immunodeficient patients like patients on long-term steroids, ...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Studies demonstrate an association between mental health disorders and organ transplantation, with adolescents five times more likely to experience anxiety and depression than their nontransplant peers. The purpose of this study is to describe the...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Organ transplantation is a modern medical success story. However, since its inception it has been limited by the need for pharmacological immunosuppression. Regulatory cellular therapies offer an attractive solution to these challenges by controll...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Uterine transplantation is a novel approach to solving a clinical problem faced by women with uterine factor infertility whose desire to parent includes a desire to give birth. The ethical precepts used for other solid organ transplants are helpfu...

Jul 2nd, 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 7th, 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...

Mar 9th, 2020 - Significant practice-changing developments have occurred in the care of heart transplantation candidates and recipients over the past decade. This Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network Position Statement provides evid...

Dec 14th, 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 30th, 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...

Oct 29th, 2021 - I/R injury is a critical condition that causes cell damage and organ dysfunction and contributes to morbidity and mortality in a wide range of pathologies. Ischemia is defined as hypoperfusion of tissues, which can occur in conditions such as hemo...

Oct 8th, 2021 - Background of the study: Patients with underlying haematological malignancies or immunocompromised for various other reasons, are prone to fungal infections. Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a common complication during remission inducing chemothera...

Sep 29th, 2021 - Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism, is heterogeneous in etiology and clinical manifestations. Affected patients with cblA, cblB and mut classes of MMA are medically fragile and can suffer ...

Sep 17th, 2021 - The main objective of this trial is to evaluate the immunogenicity of reimmunization against SARS-CoV-2 in patients undergoing solid organ transplantation with heterologous revaccination, testing whether in patients who received two doses of Spike...

Sep 16th, 2021 - Currently, one the challenges of durable glucose management after pancreas transplantation is the ability to accurately and expediently diagnose early rejection to prevent unnecessary damage to the graft. This assessment is further complicated in ...

Nov 4th, 2021 - Arthur L. Caplan, PhD Most of us worry about catching COVID. We worry about getting sick, even very sick (even though most of us won't, even if infected). People waiting for an organ transplant are more likely to get severely sick if they catch th...

Sep 18th, 2021 - Editor's note, 23 September 2021: The title of this article was amended for clarity. Researchers have identified groups of people most at risk of dying or experiencing severe disease from COVID-19 after receiving one or two doses of a COVID-19 vac...

Sep 9th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Organ transplants fell by a third globally during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the impact varied across countries, providing an opportunity for cross-country learning to improve future preparedness, rese...

Sep 2nd, 2021 - The safety and effectiveness of TheraSphere™ Yttrium-90 (Y-90) Glass Microspheres is under examination in patients with colorectal cancer with metastases in the liver who are scheduled to receive second-line chemotherapy as part of the ongoing EPO...

Aug 24th, 2021 - Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany has decided to discontinue the phase 2 INTR@PID BTC 055 trial (NCT04066491) examining bintrafusp alfa (M7824) plus gemcitabine and cisplatin in the frontline treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic ...