Medicare Pay Policy on Transplant Drugs SlammedMedPage Today"Failing to pay for ongoing immunosuppression ensures that Medicare's initial investment in kidney transplantation is squandered, that patients die prematurely, and that US taxpayers …
Post-Liver Transplantation Survival Outcomes – Cardiopulmonary Exercise …Medical News TodayAccording to a study in the February edition of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Stu…
Dr Mandeep Mehra leaves Baltimore for post at the BrighamTheHeart.Org… before the region was slammed by Hurricane Katrina. He is also editor in chief of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation and was president of the International Society of H…
African-American Kidneys May Worsen Transplant OutcomesRenal and Urology NewsIn a study of 13692 hemodialysis patients who underwent renal transplantation, recipients of an AA kidney had a 39%, 80%, and 30% increased risk of all-cause mortality, cardio…
When the isolated lung runs out of airPhysOrg.comFor patients with incurable pulmonary conditions, a lung transplantation is the only available treatment option. However, suitable donor organs are scarce, and even getting them to prospective recipients…
CPET measurement predicts mortality in patients following liver transplantationNews-Medical.netResearchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver trans…
Family Practice News Digital NetworkLung transplant system often skips over those most in needMedical XpressThe current system for allocating donated lungs based on proximity and not on need appears to decrease the potential benefits of lung transplant…
Kidney Transplantation: NJ Parents See Hope After Operation Denial OutcryThirdAgeA 3-year-old girl whose parents claimed she was denied a kidney transplantation at one of the nation's top children's hospitals because of her mental disability is…
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survivalMedical XpressResearchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following liver transp…
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing may predict post-liver transplantation survivalEurekAlert (press release)Researchers from the UK determined that preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a specific predictor of 90-day survival following …