Transplantation

No increased risk of allograft failure in patients who discontinued treatment The use of long-term corticosteroid therapy after kidney transplant may be unnecessary, according to results from a prospective multicenter trial.In...

Resumption of cardiac activity following life support withdrawal not unusual Even in 2021, determining the exact moment of death is challenging and can affect not just one but many lives, as patients await life-saving organs...

Women with cirrhosis displayed worse frailty scores despite similar liver disease severity Women with decompensated liver cirrhosis awaiting transplant had worse frailty scores than men — despite similar scores on a...

Also associated with improved outcomes Supplemental oxygen delivered along with hypothermic machine perfusion (HMPO2) during donor kidney preservation is easy to do, safe, and adds little additional cost compared with HMP alone...

Experts call for reconsideration of 2018 policy change Changes in the U.S. United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) heart allocation policy in 2018 appear to have resulted in improved wait list times, as well as reductions in...

Study findings encourage aggressive use of liver allografts Outcomes among liver transplant recipients who received allografts considered “marginal” approached those of benchmark allografts in a follow-up study...

Mitigating geographic disparities not enough Sex-based inequities in access to liver transplants won’t necessarily be solved by just enacting policies designed to mitigate geographic disparities in liver allocations.In...

Trial tested approach against antiviral prophylaxis in CMV-seronegative recipients Using preemptive therapy led to a lower incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease over 12 months in CMV-seronegative liver transplant recipients...