Unique approach to heart-liver transplant offers new hope for highly sensitized patients
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
Viewpoint: Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants deserve more respect
Jessica MacLeod
I am writing in response to Dr. Richard Feldman’s attack on Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) in the Courier and Press print edition of March 28th.
Dr. Feldman argues that Indiana patients benefit from programs that educate and retain physicians in our state. At the same time, he unnecessarily conflates this issue with care provided by others, and denigrates the important contributions made by the NPs and PAs of Indiana.
I agree that Indiana needs more trained physicians, especially in primary care and geriatrics. My objection to his essay is that he portrays NP and PA delivered healthcare as less safe and effective than care delivered by physicians, which is untrue and I believe politically and financially motivated. If Dr. Feldman were truly concerned about what is best for Hoosier patients, he would share with readers the large body of evidence-based-research that
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