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BMJ Open Qual 2022 May;11(2)

Center for Quality, Innovation and Safety, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Background: In-hospital glycaemic management can reduce post-transplant morbidity, but is not always part of transplant care.

Objective: We aimed to reduce the mean number of postoperative days in hyperglycaemia (≥2 blood glucose >12 mmol/L in 24 hours) in kidney and liver transplant recipients by 30%. We also aimed to reduce the mean number of days between transplant admission to endocrine consult by 2. Read More

Transplant Cell Ther 2022 May 13. Epub 2022 May 13.

Department of Hematology, National Defense Medical College Hospital, Saitama, Japan.

Background: Since cord blood (CB) units are usually selected based on the cell dose /kg, overweight (25 kg/m ≤ body mass index (BMI) < 30 kg/m) and obese (30 kg/m ≤ BMI) recipients tend to have difficulty in getting appropriate CB units. In general, actual body weight (ABW) is used for CB unit selection. However, ideal body weight (IBW) has been reported to be more closely correlated with successful engraftment after autologous, allogeneic bone marrow, and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation than ABW. Read More

Transplant Cell Ther 2022 May 13. Epub 2022 May 13.

Harvard Medical School, Boston MA; Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA; Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston MA.

Background/objective: Social support is essential to the recovery of patients who have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT). We undertook a qualitative study to explore the specific sources and benefits of social support as experienced by HSCT recipients, as well as their unmet social support needs.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 patients who had undergone HSCT and were recruited from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute's HSCT database. Read More

Clin Transplant 2022 May 16:e14710. Epub 2022 May 16.

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and intensive care medicine, Ludwig- Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany.

Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) is important in the noninvasive echocardiographic assessment of right heart function. This retrospective observational study shows correlations of TAPSE with invasive right heart catheterization parameters after pediatric heart transplantation (HTx). The study included patients after pediatric HTx with cardiac catheterizations in 2018/2019 and measurement of TAPSE (n = 52 patients with 57 examinations; 50. Read More

Transplantation 2022 May 5. Epub 2022 May 5.

Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

Pancreas transplantation in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains relatively uncommon compared with pancreas transplantation in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D); however, several studies have suggested similar outcomes between T2D and T1D, and the practice has become increasingly common. Despite this growing interest in pancreas transplantation in T2D, no study has systematically summarized the data to date. We systematically reviewed the literature on pancreas transplantation in T2D patients including patient and graft survival, glycemic control outcomes, and comparisons with outcomes in T2D kidney transplant alone and T1D pancreas transplant recipients. Read More