ALLMedicine™ Organ Transplantation Center

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Emerging data supports expanding the solid organ donor pool with transplantation from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive donors into HCV-negative recipients. However, concerns exist regarding the ability to access direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) pos...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - Over the past 20 years, DNA sequencing technology has transformed human microbiome research from identity characterizations to metagenomics approaches that reveal how microbials correlate with human health and disease. New studies are showing unpr...

Sep 21st, 2021 - Transplant patients are at risk for illnesses and complications days, months, or years after transplantation, and they can present complex challenges for emergency clinicians. This review discusses the general approach to the management of pediatr...

Sep 18th, 2021 - Uterus transplantation (UTx) is fast evolving from an experimental to a clinical procedure, combining solid organ transplantation with assisted reproductive technology. The commencement of the first human uterus transplant trial in the United King...

Sep 18th, 2021 - Solid organ transplantation is marked by accelerated aging and inexorable fibrosis. It is crucial to promote strategies to attenuate, or to reverse, damage before organ failure. Hence, the objective of this article is to provide insight into strat...

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...

May 3rd, 2021 - A pharmacist-led intervention that involves use of a smartphone app with home monitoring significantly reduced medication errors, adverse events, and hospitalizations among kidney transplant patients, new findings show. "To our knowledge, this is ...

May 12th, 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% ...

Mar 27th, 2020 - Current risk factors used to screen for hepatitis C should be updated, according to study results of 106,842 pregnant women who underwent screening. Courtesy NIH “Because risk-factor screening has obvious limitations, universal screening in pregna.

Aug 27th, 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 27th, 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...