Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transplantation. Show all posts
Friday, April 26, 2024

Kurt Sweat defends his dissertation

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Kurt Sweat defended his dissertation this week. As you can see in the picture below, we celebrated with the traditional toast, but instead ...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Kidney biopsies can be predicted pretty well, which could speed organ allocation

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 Here's a big international collaboration suggesting that AI assisted predictions about kidney biopsies are effective, and could speed a...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Impact of prioritization on kidney and liver allocation in Israel

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      Israel's  Organ Transplantation Law grants some priority on waiting lists for transplants to candidates who are first-degree relat...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Global disparities in kidney disease and care

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  Here's a report on the availability of treatment of kidney disease around the world.  If you are unlucky enough to have kidney failure...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Dr. Guy Alexandre (1934-2024), gave birth to brain death in deceased organ transplantation

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  The father of brain death has died. Here's the NYT obit. Guy Alexandre, Transplant Surgeon Who Redefined Death, Dies at 89 . His willi...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Increasing kidney transplants by reducing discards of risky kidneys

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  Kidneys from deceased donors are too often discarded. Dr. Joshua Mezrich , a transplant surgeon at U. Wisconsin, writes in Stat about how ...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Frozen embryos are children: Alabama Supreme Court ruling

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  The Washington Post has the story, which emphasizes the implications this ruling could have on in-vitro fertilization (IVF).  That would a...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Kidney exchange in the U.S. from 2006-2021

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 Here's an interesting look at the (ongoing) development of kidney exchange in the U.S Temporal trends in kidney paired donation in the ...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Experiments for organ allocation (an idea whose time may be coming)

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 Experiments to improve how deceased donor organs are allocated to waiting patients seem like a good idea... OPTN Task Force sets goal of ac...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Reporting and misreporting from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs)

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 Because there are shortages of organs for transplant, it is important to measure how successful Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) are ...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Brain death for organ donation, and its relation to controversy about abortion

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 Here's a summary of the current discussion of brain death (and its possible connection to the debate on whether a fetus is a living per...
Monday, January 8, 2024

"Scraping poison off the bone": Transplants in China without organs from executed prisoners

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 Following a long period in which the bulk of China's organ transplants used organs from executed prisoners, there have been steady effo...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation

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  How might we increase the number of lifesaving transplants from living kidney donors? Might we one day be able to reward donors? And what ...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Deceased organ donation in the Economist (article and letter to the editor)

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  Here's a recent article on deceased organ donation, in The Economist, followed by a letter to the editor from Alex Chan and me. In Ame...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Waitlist equity, when not everyone can wait a long time, by Afshin Nikzad and Philipp Strack

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 Patients waiting for deceased donor kidneys are given priority in part by how long they have been on dialysis, while patients waiting for l...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Peter Singer on brain death

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  Here's Peter Singer's op-ed in the Washington Post on the debate over brain death, presently used to decide when deceased donor or...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

Dead or alive? Debates about defining brain death and circulatory death in the medical literature

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Before the invention of ventilator technology, circulatory death ('cardiorespiratory death') and brain death ('neurological deat...