Just Released - Transplantation - February Issue
This issue is the 'tissue issue'. Packed with new information and perspectives on the role of tissue based transplantation approaches. Will regenerative medicine replace organ transplantation? Lung, liver and kidney transplantation advances are also prominent with confocal laser in lung transplant rejection, AKI in liver transplantation and new approaches in kidney AMR amongst the papers.
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TRANSPLANTATION - HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLE
Dr. Karen Keung, Editorial Fellow, Transplantation
Frailty, Inflammatory Markers, and Waitlist Mortality Among Patients With End-stage Renal Disease in a Prospective Cohort Study.
McAdams-DeMarco, Mara A; Ying, Hao; Thomas, Alvin G., et al.
Transplantation 2018; 102 (10): 1740-1746
Frailty is known to be highly prevalent in patients of all ages with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In kidney transplant recipients the process Thanks, Karenis associated with delayed graft function, decreased health-related quality of life and mortality. Chronic inflammation is recognized as a hallmark of frailty and elevated inflammatory markers have been demonstrated to be predictive of mortality in community-dwelling older adults, but these associations require further characterisation in patients with ESRD on the kidney transplant waitlist. In this multicenter prospective cohort study comprising 1975 ESRD patients on the kidney transplant waitlist, the authors evaluated whether the addition of frailty score and/or markers of inflammation to a registry-based prediction model improved waitlist mortality risk prediction. While both frailty and inflammatory markers were independently associated with waitlist mortality, only IL-6, CRP, and the inflammatory index improved risk prediction (c-statistic = 0.777, 0.728, 0.777 respectively, all p values =0.02) compared with the registry-based model alone (c-statistic = 0.655).The results suggest that these inflammatory markers should be measured along with frailty status during the kidney transplant evaluation process to assist in mortality risk prediction.
In the News
Portuguese Researchers Review Potential of 4D Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine
IPHOTO: This image shows how antibodies (Y-shaped) are able to stop specific viral strains from reactivating. (Supplied: Mariapia Degli-Esposti, Leonie Herson/Squarecell)
January 28 - 3D printing has been progressing rapid-speed over the past few years, with numerous forays to the next level into 4D printing, whether in serious world-changing endeavors or those that are creative and sometimes even whimsical, such as fashion. Now, researchers see that 4D advancements in bioprinting may trickle down to doctor's offices too. Authors Pedro Morouço and João Gil of Biofabrication RDi Group, Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal) expand on their findings in Four-Dimensional Bioprinting for Regenerative Medicine: Mechanisms to Induce Shape Variation and Potential Applications.
Japan's approval of stem-cell treatment for spinal-cord injury concerns scientists.
January 24 - Nature - Chief among their worries is insufficient evidence that the therapy works.
Transplanting pig hearts into sick babies may be a promising temporary treatment option
January 29 - Xenotransplantation—transplanting organs from animals into humans—is one step closer to becoming a possibility for infants awaiting human heart transplantation, according to research presented by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers at the annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting this week.
Blood test shows promise for early detection of severe lung-transplant rejection
January 22 - Researchers have developed a simple blood test that can detect when a newly transplanted lung is being rejected by a patient, even when no outward signs of the rejection are evident. The test could make it possible for doctors to intervene faster to prevent or slow down so-called chronic rejection -- which is severe, irreversible, and often deadly -- in those first critical months after lung transplantation.
Minority kidney transplants could increase with new option
January 31 -Kidney transplant recipients are now benefiting from donor organs that do not match their blood type but are compatible and just as safe, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Why liver transplant waitlists might misclassify high-risk patients
January 24 - A new study has uncovered that the standard method for ranking patients on the waitlist for lifesaving liver transplantation may not prioritize some of the sickest candidates for the top of the list.
Exome Sequencing Beneficial for Pediatric Kidney Recipients
January 23 - Whole-exome sequencing (WES) can identify a genetic cause for almost 1-third of pediatric kidney transplant recipients, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Regenerative Medicine Foundation Awards International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory for Leadership in Stem Cell Research
January 25 - The Regenerative Medicine Foundation awarded the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory the foundation's annual Leadership Award for enabling stem cell and regenerative medicine investigations onboard the orbiting laboratory. The award was presented at the 14th annual World Stem Cell Summit in Miami, Florida..
Frailty Tied With Cognitive Impairment After Kidney Transplantation
January 28 - Frail kidney transplant (KT) recipients experience cognitive improvement soon after transplant surgery, but their cognitive performance slips over the next few years. In a study of 665 KT recipients (mean age 52 years), 15% were frail based on the Fried physical frailty phenotype. Before transplantation, frail patients scored lower than their nonfrail counterparts on cognitive performance (89.0 vs 90.8 points) on the Modified Mini-Mental State Examination testing orientation, attention, language, and memory.
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