scholarly journals Letter to Editor: Cardiac Outcomes in Isolated Heart and Simultaneous Kidney and Heart Transplants in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Okumura ◽  
Abhay Dhand ◽  
Suguru Ohira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Isolated Heart ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
Cardiac Outcomes

ON WAITING LIST BEFORE BIRTH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. A26-A26
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Heart Transplant ◽  
Transplant Patient ◽  
Ultrasound Examination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heart Transplant Patient ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Heart Malformation ◽  
The University

In May 1991, an ultrasound examination revealed that a 17-week fetus had a potentially fatal heart malformation. Thirteen weeks later, doctors at the University of Pittsburgh put the fetus on a list of patients awaiting human hearts for transplant. At 35 weeks, when the fetus was mature enough to live outside the womb, the baby was delivered and became the world's youngest heart transplant patient. But the baby died when she was 3 1/2 months old... Last year, there were just 71 heart transplants in babies in the United States, and 18 percent to 37.5 percent of babies die before a heart can be found. So, Dr. Frager said, in listing a fetus before it was even mature enough for a transplant, the doctors "wanted to give their patient a leg up."

scholarly journals Outcomes of the First 1300 Adult Heart Transplants in the United States After the Allocation Policy Change

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 141 (20) ◽  
pp. 1662-1664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arman Kilic ◽  
Gavin Hickey ◽  
Michael A. Mathier ◽  
Robert L. Kormos ◽  
Ibrahim Sultan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
Allocation Policy ◽  
Adult Heart

scholarly journals Cardiac outcomes in isolated heart and simultaneous kidney and heart transplants in the US

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Adit Agarwal ◽  
Het Patel ◽  
Nikhil Agrawal ◽  
Francesca Cardarelli ◽  
Nitender Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Isolated Heart ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
Cardiac Outcomes ◽  
The Us

Abstract 15953: Impact of Citizenship on Heart Transplantation Outcomes in the United States

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison P Levin ◽  
Thomas C Hanff ◽  
Robert S Zhang ◽  
Rhondalyn C McLean ◽  
Joyce W Wald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Heart Transplant ◽  
Transplant Rejection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heart Transplants ◽  
Allocation Policy ◽  
Transplant Survival ◽  
Post Transplant ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Face Complex

Background: Non-citizens of the United States face complex social and economic issues, which may impact their post-transplant outcomes compared to US citizens. To this end, we utilized the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database to examine post-heart transplant (OHT) outcomes, stratified by citizenship status. Methods: UNOS was queried to identify OHT recipients from 03/01/12 (start of new schema for citizenship categorization) through 10/18/18 (start of new heart allocation algorithm). Groups for analysis, were as follows: US Citizen, Non-US Citizen/Resident (NC-R) and Non-US Citizen/Non-US Resident (NC-NR). Post-transplant survival and rate of post-transplant rejection were assessed via Kaplan-Meier analysis and tests of proportions. Results: Of the 16,211 OHT recipients identified, 15,677 (96.7%) were US citizens and 534 (3.3%) were Non-Citizens. Among Non-Citizens, 430 were NC-R and 104 were NC-NR, representing 2.7% and 0.6% of the total transplants. Notably, NC-NR were younger than either Citizens or NC-R, and had the shortest median time from listing to transplant (NC-R 80 days vs. Citizens 107 days vs. NC-NR 76 days, p=0.001). The proportion of transplants received by non-citizens varied widely by region, ranging from 0.59% in region 8 (6/1018) to 8.31% (84/1011) in region 9. There was no significant difference in post-transplant survival estimates in citizens vs. non-citizens (logrank p = 0.542), nor in the proportion of patients treated for rejection by one year (15.0% vs. 16.1%, p= 0.504) Conclusion: Non-US Citizens receive three percent of heart transplants performed in the US each year. Post-heart transplant survival and rate of rejection are similar in US citizens and non-citizens. These data may be relevant in the context of evolving UNOS policies. Additional studies are needed are to further inform organ allocation policy.

Trends in Hospital Charges for Heart Transplants in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. S160
Author(s):  
P.H.U. Lee ◽  
A.Y. Sheikh ◽  
R.V. Ha ◽  
R. Beygui ◽  
P.E. Oyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hospital Charges ◽  
Heart Transplants

Party Strength in the United States: Some Corrections

1975 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 641-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. David
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Party Strength

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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