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A new study provides safety and effectiveness data on treating mild hypertension during pregnancy and how it affects outcomes for both the mother and baby. The research will help inform treatment decisions that have varied because of a shortage of evidence about the benefits of antihypertensive medications.
Cardiologist Raymond Givens at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where he is associate director of the cardiac intensive care units. Biz Herman for STAT When cardiologist Raymond Givens read the article in the Journal of the American Heart Association last year, it stopped him in his tracks. Written by a fellow cardiologist, it claimed educational affirmative action programs were promoting underprepared Black and Hispanic trainees who would not gain admission to top medical schools or become the best doctors. While the article was widely condemned as racist and error...
Study details The trial was conducted at six transplant facilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the U.K., during 2016-2020. Investigators randomized 78 adult patients to receive a machine-perfused liver and 78 to receive a liver preserved in standard static cold storage. Median age of liver donors was similar across arms at 52 in the intervention group and 49 in the control group. Men accounted for 67% and 65% of donors in the two arms, respectively, and donors in both arms had a mean body mass index of 25. In other comparative endpoints: Post-reperfusion syndrome occurred in 12% of the i...
Feb 26, 2021 Biliary complications significantly reduced with hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion The waiting list for liver transplants is long and the Americans who die on that list number in the thousands because there are too few donor organs, but machine cold perfusion may ease the supply deficit. Organs for liver transplant come from living donors and brain-dead donors. Another source is organs harvested from donors after circulatory death (DCD), which currently make up about 25% of transplanted livers. But patients who received DCD grafts are at risk for worse outcome due to ische...