Liver & Intestine Transplant News

• Number of US Child Hepatitis Cases Rises to 180 The cases come from 36 states and territories over the last 7 months.
  WebMD Health News, May 19, 2022
• CDC Updates Guidelines for Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children Unexplained hepatitis cases have been reported in children worldwide, reaching 450 cases and 11 deaths, according to the latest update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
  Medscape Medical News, May 12, 2022
• Mysterious Hepatitis in Kids: What We Know and Don't Know Now Global reports of a mysterious hepatitis affecting young children continue to mount as health officials search for definitive answers.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• CDC Investigating More Than 100 Severe Pediatric Hepatitis Cases More than half of children tested positive for adenovirus, but the public health agency said it is still investigating potential disease causes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 06, 2022
• HBCU Medical Schools to Tackle Organ Transplant Disparities The collaboration follows a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report that found significant disparities in the nation's organ transplant system.
  Associated Press, May 05, 2022
• Unexplained Hepatitis Cases in Children Reported in 10 States 'If you have a child with an unexplained liver problem, report it to the CDC,' said one public health expert.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• PPIs Should Be Used 'Judiciously' in Patients With Cirrhosis Experts call for 'nuanced' prescribing of proton pump inhibitors to patients with cirrhosis in a study that found lower mortality only in those with gastrointestinal bleeding.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2022
• Machine Perfusion After Cold Storage Improves Outcomes of Extended-Criteria Liver Grafts Extended criteria donor livers treated with dual hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion have lower rates of graft failure and are associated with fewer post operative complications in recipients, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, April 07, 2022
• Live Donor Liver Transplants for Patients With CRC Liver Mets The results on overall survival with living-donor liver transplantation are encouraging; some urge caution and a "one step at a time" approach.
  Medscape Medical News, April 06, 2022
• Normothermic Perfusion of Livers From Donors After Cardiac Death Compared to traditional static cold storage, normothermic regional perfusion of livers procured from donors after cardiac death improves outcomes in the recipients of those livers, new data show.
  Reuters Health Information, March 25, 2022
• Tacrolimus Tied to Post Liver Transplant Cancer Risk Higher cumulative exposure to tacrolimus in the first year after liver transplant was linked to a higher risk for de novo malignancies and recurrent liver cancer in a case-control study from Spain.
  Reuters Health Information, March 21, 2022
• Early Transplant for Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis Boosts Survival, Alcohol Intake For patients with severe alcohol-related hepatitis, early liver transplantation improves survival, but also boosts the likelihood of alcohol relapse, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, March 11, 2022
• Living Organ Donors Help Spearhead Legislative Protection "I found out that you could be a kidney donor," Velkoff said. "I just always knew that that was something I wanted to do."
  Associated Press, March 03, 2022
• Novel Scoring System Emerges for Alcoholic Hepatitis Mortality Higher accuracy in predicting imminent death can better inform treatment options and transplant decisions, the prognostic model’s creators say.
  Medscape Medical News, February 24, 2022
• Good Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney/Liver Transplant in Adults With HIV HIV-positive kidney- and liver-transplant patients can expect good long-term outcomes following the transplant, comparable with those of matched HIV-negative peers, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2022
• Machine Perfusion Boosts Outcomes of Liver Transplant When preparing deceased-donor livers for transplant, portable normothermic blood-based machine perfusion improves transplant outcomes than ischemic cold storage, according to results of the PROTECT trial.
  Reuters Health Information, January 05, 2022
• HIV+ Patients Get Good Outcomes After Kidney or Liver Transplant Patient and graft survival outcomes after 15 years support transplant benefits in HIV population.
  Medscape Medical News, January 05, 2022
• AASLD 2021 Home-Based System Relieves Refractory Ascites in Cirrhosis A tunneled peritoneal catheter drainage system relieved symptoms with an infection risk similar to standard of care.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2021
• AASLD 2021 FIB-4 Could ID Liver Risk in Primary Care The Fibrosis-4 index is most often used in specialty clinics but showed promise in primary care.
  Medscape Medical News, December 13, 2021
• Can the World Learn From Spain When it Comes to Organ Donation? With the implementation of a national presumed-consent policy for organ donation, Spain became the global leader and provides a model for other countries to follow.
  Medscape Medical News, December 08, 2021