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Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Cerebrovascular Events after Left Ventricular Assist Devices (P2.281)
CONCLUSIONS: CVE remains a serious complication of LVAD and is associated with increased mortality and lower rates of OHT. Further investigations to identify risk factors for CVEs in LVAD patients and potential preventive measures including optimal ATRs are warranted. Disclosure: Dr. Tahsili-Fahadan has nothing to disclose. Dr. Curfman has nothing to disclose. Dr. Davis has nothing to disclose. Dr. Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi has nothing to disclose. Dr. Nassif has nothing to disclose. Dr. LaRue has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ewald has received personal compensation for activities with Thoratec Corporation as a consultant and advis...
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Tahsili-Fahadan, P., Curfman, D., Davis, A., Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi, N., Nassif, M., LaRue, S., Ewald, G., Zazulia, A. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: PFO and Other Cardiac Disease Source Type: research
Impact of Renal Impairment on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality After Liver Transplantation for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Cirrhosis
ConclusionNASH recipients have an increased risk of CVD mortality after liver transplantation explained by a high prevalence of co‐morbid cardiometabolic risk factors that in aggregate identify those at highest risk of post‐transplant CVD mortality.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Liver International - May 15, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Lisa B. VanWagner, Brittany Lapin, Anton I. Skaro, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones, Mary E. Rinella Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Has Brazil found the way to better health care?
Under Brazil’s family health program, when a woman learns that she is pregnant, she contacts her local community health agent, who often is a neighbor.
Typically, the agent visits her home to arrange an appointment with the neighborhood’s family health team, and the woman visits the health center for an assessment by a nurse assistant and a physician. During the pregnancy, if she misses a prenatal care appointment, the agent checks in on her at home and helps her reschedule her visit. Any prenatal medications she needs are provided free of charge.
Brazil — home to the world’s fifth-largest population and seventh-l...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Pre-existing diabetes and risks of morbidity and mortality after liver transplantation: A nationwide database study in an Asian population.
CONCLUSION: DM is associated with elevated risk of 90-day post-LTx. Moreover, DM patients with coexisting renal manifestations exhibited an increased postoperative risk of mortality after LTx.
PMID: 26048000 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: European Journal of Internal Medicine - June 2, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tsai MS, Wang YC, Wang HH, Lee PH, Jeng LB, Kao CH Tags: Eur J Intern Med Source Type: research
Disrupting Today's Healthcare System
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system. Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic and expensive. It's sick care, not healthcare. This blog is about why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it. First, the Bad News: Doctors spend $210 billion per year on procedures that aren’t based on patient need, but fear of liability. Americans spend, on average, $8,915 per person on healthcare – more than any other count...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cortical laminar necrosis due to refractory status epilepticus in a kidney transplant patient with cryptococcal meningitis
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2015 Source:Indian Journal of Transplantation Author(s): Zaheer Virani, Prashant Rajput, Pankaj Agarwal, Rashmi Badhe A 56-year-old diabetic male underwent kidney transplant in 2010. He was brought to the hospital with complaints of vomiting and altered sensorium of 10 days duration. Lumbar puncture revealed cryptococcal meningitis. He was promptly initiated on liposomal amphotericin B and flucytosine. Immunosuppressive agents tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil were discontinued. There was an initial improvement in his sensorium but a few days later, he developed super...
Source: Indian Journal of Transplantation - November 17, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Source Type: research
Donor risk factors in orthotopic liver transplant: analysis of the OPTN/UNOS registry.
This study of the United Network for Organ Sharing registry data analyzed reputed donor factors using the post-MELD data and evaluated them further in HCV positive and HCV negative recipients with hepatic cirrhosis to develop a modified DRI (mDRI). We found that HCV negative cirrhotic recipients have generally higher tolerance against inferior qualities of donors than HCV positive cirrhotic patients. In addition, the results revealed the post-MELD prognostic factors that should be considered in the donor procurement processes. The group of "all recipients" and the subset of HCV positive cirrhotic recipients showed a simila...
Source: Clinical Transplants - November 20, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Clin Transpl Source Type: research
Frequency of Cardiovascular Events and Effect on Survival in Liver Transplant Recipients for Cirrhosis Due to Alcoholic or Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.
CONCLUSIONS: Cardiovascular events occurred with similar frequency in transplant recipients for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or alcoholic cirrhosis. Patient survival was affected in both groups, but male patients with concomitant hepatitis C virus infection remained at higher risk for a cardiovascular event after liver transplant. Development of a cardiac evaluation protocol for liver transplant recipients could help monitor these patients.
PMID: 26581602 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - November 17, 2015 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Piazza NA, Singal AK Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research
Effect of Body Mass Index on Outcomes in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients
ConclusionsAppropriately‐selected patients at the extremes of BMI can safely undergo LVAD implantation with no difference in survival. BMI should not in itself be considered a contraindication to LVAD placement.
Source: Journal of Cardiac Surgery - February 9, 2016 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Pauline H. Go, Hassan W. Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Gaetano Paone, Jeffrey A. Morgan Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Effects of blood pressure on renal and cardiovascular outcomes in Asian patients with type 2 diabetes and overt nephropathy: a post hoc analysis (ORIENT-blood pressure)
Conclusion
In Asian type 2 diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease and heavy proteinuria, reduction of SBP ≤ 130 mmHg was associated with greater renoprotection than cardioprotection. However, our results emphasize the need to individualize BP targets in type 2 diabetes.
Source: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - February 22, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Imai, E., Ito, S., Haneda, M., Harada, A., Kobayashi, F., Yamasaki, T., Makino, H., Chan, J. C. N. Tags: Chronic Kidney Disease Source Type: research
Metabolic Syndrome After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: At the Intersection of Treatment Toxicity and Immune Dysfunction
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) survivors face a multitude of short- and long-term health complications in the years following treatment. One important health complication that is associated with significant morbidity is metabolic syndrome (MetSyn). This constellation of findings, including obesity, glucose and lipid dysmetabolism, and hypertension, place affected individuals at increased risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular complications and stroke. Previous studies have linked MetSyn in HCT survivors to prior treatment; however, few have addressed the potential roles of systemic inflammation and imm...
Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - March 21, 2016 Category: Hematology Authors: Lucie M. Turcotte, Ashley Yingst, Michael R. Verneris Source Type: research
APOL1 nephropathy risk variants are associated with altered high-density lipoprotein profiles in African Americans
Conclusions
Greater numbers of APOL1 G1/G2 risk alleles were associated with higher small HDL particle concentrations in African Americans. These results may suggest novel areas of investigation to uncover reasons for the association between APOL1 risk variants with adverse outcomes in African Americans.
Source: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - March 22, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Gutierrez, O. M., Judd, S. E., Irvin, M. R., Zhi, D., Limdi, N., Palmer, N. D., Rich, S. S., Sale, M. M., Freedman, B. I. Tags: Chronic Kidney Disease Source Type: research
Clinical outcomes in overweight heart transplant recipients
Conclusions Overweight HT patients had better survival, but more rejections, CAV, and diabetes. Non-overweight HT patients had worse survival, plus more re-hospitalization time, lymphoma, and renal dysfunction.
Source: Heart and Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care - April 23, 2016 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: research
Outcomes on Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Single Institutional 9-Year Experience
Conclusions These data indicate excellent survival for BTT and DT patients on long-term LVAD support. However, for LVAD therapy to become a plausible alternative to heart transplantation, we need to further decrease the incidence of postoperative complications.
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 9, 2016 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research
Outcomes on Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices: A Single Institutional 9-Year Experience.
CONCLUSIONS: These data indicate excellent survival for BTT and DT patients on long-term LVAD support. However, for LVAD therapy to become a plausible alternative to heart transplantation, we need to further decrease the incidence of postoperative complications.
PMID: 27173072 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - May 9, 2016 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Morgan JA, Go PH, Xuereb L, Kaur B, Akrawe S, Nemeh HW, Borgi J, Lanfear DE, Williams CT, Paone G Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research
