Feature Channels: Transplantation

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在家人齐聚共度节假日之际，免疫力低下的患者务必采取额外的措施，保护自己免于罹患COVID-19（2019 冠状病毒病），这一点很重要。免疫系统受损的人患上COVID-19重症的风险更高。这些人包括癌症患者、接受了移植手术并正在服用免疫抑制药物的患者，以及感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的晚期和未接受过治疗的患者。

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Conforme as famílias se reúnem para as festas de final de ano, é importante que os pacientes imunocomprometidos tomem medidas extras para ajudar a se proteger da COVID-19. Pessoas com o sistema imunológico enfraquecido correm maior risco de adoecer gravemente com a COVID-19.

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Dada la proximidad de las reuniones familiares para celebrar las festividades, es importante que los pacientes con compromiso inmunitario tomen medidas adicionales para protegerse contra la COVID-19.

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As families prepare to gather later this month for Thanksgiving, it is important for patients who are immunocompromised to take extra steps to protect themselves from becoming infected with COVID-19. People who are immunocompromised have weakened immune systems, which means they have a higher risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19.

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• People who are on dialysis or who have undergone kidney transplantation have immune system–related differences compared with people with normal kidney function, and these differences are further amplified by SARS-CoV-2 infection. • The findings may help explain why these individuals face a higher risk of dying from COVID-19. • Results from the study will be presented online at ASN Kidney Week 2021 November 4–November 7.

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New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, shows that people with systemic autoimmune diseases do as well after lung or heart-lung transplants as those without any systemic causes of end-stage lung disease.

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A growing number of hospitals have implemented patient blood management programs to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions and costs. A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings finds that such a program can not only substantially reduce transfusion use, but also reduce length of hospital stays and in-hospital adverse outcomes.

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Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute reached a historic, first-ever milestone when surgeons replaced the lungs of a 16-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis.

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Registrations for the national organ transplant waiting list related to alcoholic hepatitis as well as the number of deceased donor liver transplants for the inflammatory liver condition rose significantly during the pandemic, Michigan Medicine researchers found.

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People with liver cancer awaiting transplantation could benefit from non-invasive radiation treatments but are rarely given this therapy, according to a new analysis of U.S. national data. Findings will be presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.

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The first investigational transplantation of a genetically engineered, nonhuman kidney to a human body was recently completed at NYU Langone Health—marking a major step forward in potentially utilizing an alternative supply of organs for people facing life-threatening disease.

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In a study of children on the U.S. kidney transplant list from 2008 to 2019, researchers found no racial and ethnic disparities regarding time on the waitlist until transplantation either before or after a 2014 policy change.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a drug that, when given along with a bone marrow transplant, drops the risk of leukemia recurring by 20% among the high-risk patients.

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Keck Medicine of USC treatment plan significantly reduces hospitalizations and deaths of liver and kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19

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Clinical equations that estimate patients’ kidney function include an adjustment for Black race. This survey-based study found that U.S. transplant centers agree that this adjustment is unsatisfactory.

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Cesarean birth rates are on the rise, and this is especially true for high-risk pregnant women who have undergone organ transplantation. While cesarean births account for 31% of all deliveries in the United States, the rate of cesarean births for pregnant people with kidney transplants is 62.6% and 44.6% for liver transplants.

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Physicians recommend that patients with pulmonary hypertension avoid pregnancy, given the high risk of death for the mother and baby. However, Candice Cruise was unaware of her condition until she reached 21 weeks of pregnancy.

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A recent study examined the spectrum of antibody responses—including IgG, IgM, and IgA antibodies—in kidney transplant recipients infected with the virus that causes COVID-19

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In a study published today in the American Journal of Transplantation, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say that children between the ages of 12 and 18 who have received solid organ transplants appear to mount a more robust immune response than their adult counterparts after a standard two-dose vaccination regimen against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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An analysis of national data shows that kidney transplant recipients and individuals with kidney failure face a high risk of dying from COVID-19.

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Today, advocates of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and 19 other kidney health professional and patient organizations are meeting with their congressional delegations, calling on them to enact policies to improve kidney health

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In a worldwide pediatric study, researchers from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles show the clear benefit of using living donor liver tissue for transplants.

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The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is highlighting two particularly interesting stories from COVID survivors who were on ECMO for months, with one patient eventually underdoing a double lung transplantation.

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As head of the transplant program, Dr. Jain will work with the hospital's more than 30 pediatric subspecialists.

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糖尿病的治疗方式在过去十年来取得了长足进展。糖尿病是一种可能导致严重并发症的终身慢性疾病。尽管治疗方式有所进展，但许多糖尿病患者仍在与疾病作斗争。

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Muitos avanços foram feitos em relação aos tratamentos da diabetes ao longo da década passada. A diabetes é uma doença crônica com cuidados necessários por toda a vida, com potencial para complicações significativas. Apesar dos avanços, muitas pessoas com diabetes lutam contra a doença.

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El tratamiento de la diabetes ha avanzado mucho en la última década. La diabetes es una enfermedad crónica que dura toda la vida y causa complicaciones importantes. Pese a los avances, muchas personas diabéticas tienen problemas.