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FDA Panel Nearly Unanimous on Liver Transplant Perfusion Device

FDA Panel Nearly Unanimous on Liver Transplant Perfusion Device
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Reverse-order heart-liver transplant helps prevent rejection for certain patients

 E-Mail ROCHESTER, Minn. All too often, patients with high levels of antibodies face major challenges getting a transplant. These highly sensitized patients have a much higher risk of death while waiting for suitable organs they are less likely to reject. But there is new hope for highly sensitized patients in need of a combined heart and liver transplant, thanks to an innovative surgical approach at Mayo Clinic. Traditionally, surgeons transplant the heart first, followed by the liver. But Mayo Clinic heart transplant team decided to reverse the order for highly sensitized patients in the hopes that the liver would absorb some of the patient s antibodies, removing them from circulation and lowering the risk of antibody-mediated rejection. The strategy worked, according to a study recently published in the

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Photo Illustration of Rochester Skyline c. 2020. (Traci Westcott / twestcott@postbulletin.com) There’s a saying about downtown Rochester in the 1970s and early 1980s: if someone set off a loaded cannon on the corner of Fourth Street and First Avenue, the ball would sail through the air a long time before it struck anything. The lack of activity was a symptom of spiking interest in the “cornfield” communities, which offered bountiful parking spaces and plots exponentially cheaper than what developers could acquire in the city’s center. Retail powerhouses migrated to surrounding malls, leaving the downtown gutted. “If you were walking down Broadway, it was almost like a ghost town,” said Terry Spaeth, assistant city administrator.

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