Nic Muñoz, MD

PGY4 @pennsurgery interested in Abdominal Transplant // @yalemed 2020 // @UTAustin Plan II + @TexasMSD 2015

[PennSurgery @pennsurgery]

Raphaël Fischer and Dr Abt’s team at ⁦@Penn_Transplant⁩ publish the first 1st case report on the use of NRP in pediatric DCD donors for liver transplantation in a small adult recipient https://t.co/OhKUFzE5v7

[Penn Medicine CSO @PennMedCSO]

United States trends in procurement of solid organs intended for research ft. @munoz_nic, @PeterAbt2 (@PennSurgery) & Emily Vail (@PennAnesthesia) @NCSP_Penn @Penn_Transplant @PennLDI https://t.co/36AuCa3pOk

[Isaac Alderete @IsaacAlderete5]

Here we go! Incredibly grateful to train here @pennsurgery

[JAMA Internal Medicine @JAMAInternalMed]

Viewpoint: Extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) may prevent firearm injuries by allowing clinicians to act as petitioners.

https://t.co/x9PXII5Hqk

[luis seija, md, mshp (he/they) @leseija]

tobacco control saved ~4M lives & added 76M yrs back into our communities bc we treated it like a health threat.

#alcohol causes cancer too.

but we’ve normalized the risk, stalled the response & cont. to ignore its heavy societal costs.

we know the science. what’s stopping us?

[Nic Muñoz, MD @munoz_nic]

Excited to welcome our intern class of 2025-26! Can’t wait to work with yall

[Taylor Goldenstein @taygoldenstein]

Staggering details from this story:

- After TX banned abortion, rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the 2nd trimester

- The rate of maternal deaths in TX rose 33% btwn 2019 + 2023 even as national rate fell by 7.5%

[Penn LDI @PennLDI]

A new analysis suggests ~2 in 5 liver transplants from donation after circulatory death donors, recorded as not using machine perfusion (MP), may actually have undergone MP—potentially underestimating MP’s impact in transplant studies.

Read more:
https://t.co/N5xlbcJgoA

[Michigan Surgery @UMichSurgery]

Oluwadamilola Fayanju, MD, MA, MPHS, is joining us for Grand Rounds for the Seventh Annual Asa G. Yancey, Sr. Lecture! Dr. Fayanju will be giving her talk, Towards a Better Version of Our (Surgical) Selves.

Location: Ford Auditorium

[luis seija, md, mshp (he/they) @leseija]

appreciative of the opportunity to be interviewed & included in this incredibly important @sciam piece by @SimarSBajaj on the health risks of alcohol & practical guidance for drinking safely.

read here: https://t.co/AQ0IwmBylY

cc: @PennMedicine @PennLDI @Penn_MSHP @NCSP_Penn

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

RFK's Children's Health Defense is making money selling a child's onesie with the phrases "No Vax, No Problem" and "Unvaxxed, Unafraid" to parents for $26.

Now that RFK is "pro-vaccine", will he ask his organization to stop selling these vehemently anti-vaccine products?

[Philadelphia 76ers @sixers]

🩺 @PennMedicine spotlight:

The Penn Medicine Liver Transplant Team evaluated Chenelle Watson (second from left) for a needed liver transplant. Her husband Marlon (left) was a suitable living donor and able to donate a portion of his liver for this life saving procedure.

Dr. Kenneth Rothstein and Dr. Peter Abt are a part of Chenelle’s care team that assisted with her transplant in May 2024.  A separate team performed the living donor surgery on Marlon.

[Max Jordan Nguemeni @MaxJordan_N]

I was on @DGlaucomflecken and @LGlaucomflecken’s #KnockknockHiPodcast. We talked social media, unions in medicine, & why I care so much about pain management. A dream come true after following them on here for years! Available wherever you get your podcasts. Link in next tweet!

[Nic Muñoz, MD @munoz_nic]

Great working with @MMendizabalMD on this!

Still much to learn about Liver disease in CF and how CFTR modulators may reduce liver injury and the need for combined lung-liver transplant. The decrease in lung transplant is encouraging!

@pennsurgery

[Manuel Mendizabal @MMendizabalMD]

Happy to share our latest research on CFTR modulators and their impact on organ transplantation in CF patients

❌Liver Tx rates remained stable post-CFTR mod introduction

✅Lung tx dropped by 81%.

‼️More data needed to assess liver outcomes

🔒https://t.co/UcaO8BCer7

[luis seija, md, mshp (he/they) @leseija]

Last week, I joined @whyy #Studio2 to discuss alcohol policy, its overlooked link to cancer, & explored how #PublicHealth strategies can make a lasting impact on our communities.

Listen to the episode here: https://t.co/q1BpWMUFbo

[Nic Muñoz, MD @munoz_nic]

National data is important to understand how NRP and ex-situ MP are being used for transplantation, and to track outcomes. Using this as well as @Aortologist method to identify NRP cases, we can create more rigorous TXP studies with observational data!

https://t.co/Y1utUCU2Rc

[Nic Muñoz, MD @munoz_nic]

Excited about our work in @amjtransplant ! We quantify a gap in US data on liver machine perfusion(MP), and estimate that up to a 1/4 of transplanted DCD livers that are listed as no MP, received MP! Important with the MP boom since 2022!

@Penn_Transplant @PennLDI @NCSP_Penn

[PennSurgery @pennsurgery]

A new report published in ⁦@amjtransplant⁩ by @munoz_nic, Emily Minus, @ElizabethSonnenberg and Dr. Peter Abt quantifies the underreporting of liver machine perfusion in US national data. https://t.co/Ub97XchSEa

[Nic Muñoz, MD @munoz_nic]

Using this method, we may be able to identify “back to base” machine perfusion techniques, and cases where the MP variable was incorrectly assigned. Importantly, up to a quarter or more of transplanted DCD livers that are reported as not undergoing MP, likely underwent MP!