Updates on vaccines in transplantation @mgh_transplant@KottonNelson 1) New recombinant Zoster vaccine recommended to all patients prior to transplant or >12 months of those transplanted already (2 doses); 2) Pneumonoccal vaccine: all ESKD or post-tx should get 1 dose of PCV20
April is National Donate Life Month! This year’s theme is “Bee A Donor.” Be sure to use #DonateLife#BeeADonor#OrganDonation when posting, and don’t forget to ask friends and family to register as donors at https://t.co/ZNIWf3jO1M
In 2021, #OSUTransplant performed 6⃣0⃣1⃣ life-saving organ transplants – two more than last year to rank #7 overall by volume out of 250 transplant programs in the U.S. #Buckeye4Life@OSUWexMed
Today, the FDA approved the first drug to treat adults & pediatric patients 12 years of age & older who weigh at least 35 kilograms with post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection/disease that does not respond to available antiviral treatment for CMV. https://t.co/ZsxsEb2oJr
Join our awesome abdominal transplant pharmacy team at @OSUWexMed in Columbus, OH! This specialist position will work with kidney, pancreas and liver transplant patients in the inpatient & outpatient settings and will join 4 other specialists. PGY2 SOT + experience preferred 1/2
The Fungitell is the least useful non-culture based diagnostic test in ID (definitely in transplant ID). The NPV is somewhat helpful from a stewardship perspective to get people off unnecessary echinocandins but the PPV is 💩
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March 1, 1989 - FK506-Tacrolimus-Prograf - First in Human-32; Dr. Venkat worked w. Dr. Starzl, to help develop tacrolimus, one of the most widely used immunosuppressive drugs. 2010 article from the Pitt Capsule: https://t.co/Bvjm3nsZ9p
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