Norristown native, LC grad to serve as president of United Network for Organ Sharing board montgomerynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from montgomerynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(2)
ROCKVILLE, MD / ACCESSWIRE / May 3, 2021 / The American Kidney Fund (AKF) today announced a webinar, Cystatin C: Its utility as an alternative for creatinine-based eGFR, to educate healthcare practitioners about the cystatin C testing option for kidney health and help them effectively communicate about testing options to patients. The webinar, sponsored by Gentian Diagnostics, will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, May 4, 2021 from 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET.
Cystatin C is a protein used as a biomarker for kidney function. When a healthcare practitioner suspects a patient may have decreased kidney function, a cystatin C test may be ordered to help assess how well the kidneys are filtering. Measurement of serum cystatin C is gaining a greater role in the estimation of kidney function, particularly as the kidney community considers moving away from the current race-based eGFR equation which depends on creatinine measurement.
Piedmont Atlanta Hosp. and LifeLink open the only organ recovery center in the state
ATLANTA (WGCL) Two medical powerhouses teamed up to open the first-of-its-kind medical center in the state.
According to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital officials, a new LifeLink Organ Recovery Center will be located within the hospital. It was created through a partnership between Piedmont Atlanta Hospital and LinkLink.
The new facility is the first organ recovery center in the state, and one of few in the nation.
The brand new, 9,588-square-foot building has two operating rooms, six ICU bays, a perfusion lab and two private rooms for donor families.
Back to Healio
We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com.
Back to Healio
Organ donation and kidney transplants have made an “amazing” recovery from the worst days of the pandemic, a speaker said here, with more than 33,000 kidney transplants performed in 2020.
“There were some parts of the Northeast where there were zero living donor transplants done for weeks,”
Matthew Cooper, MD, director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute and professor of surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine, said during a presentation at the virtual National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings. “It was amazing how the country regained . the key was getting organs to areas where transplants could happen.”
Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
CareDx Transplant Leadership Showcased at ASTS 2021
CareDx, Inc.January 8, 2021 GMT
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA), a leading precision medicine company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers, announced it will be showcasing new transplant data at the upcoming 21st Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Digital Winter Symposium.
CareDx is sponsoring two symposia with key clinical leaders within transplantation, the speakers covering their real-world experiences using AlloSure to optimize care for their transplant patients, and highlighting novel data on the clinical utility of AlloSure. Of note, Dr. Jason Wellen will share initial data from the ADMIRAL study on AlloSure surveillance outcome