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6 Future Outlook for Organ Transplantation and Disability
Pages 77-82

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... Panelists included Aditi Gupta, University of Kansas Medical Center; Erika Lease, University of Washington; Jignesh Patel, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; and Tanjala Purnell, JHU. Bowman summarized what the speakers covered during the workshop sessions, first noting that there is no typical transplant patient, as each one is unique and has a different and varied experience.
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From page 78...
... In a handful of cases where transplant recipients had COVID-19, while the acute infection resolved, they never fully recovered and then developed acute respiratory distress syndrome.1 Another cohort is emerging of patients who may recover enough to leave the hospital but have permanent lung damage requiring a future transplant. However, clarity about other systemic effects of COVID-19 is still lacking, she said, and how it might affect the ability to even get to transplantation or do well after transplantation.
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From page 79...
... But he highlighted a large registry being built at the University of Washington for all solid organ transplant patients who have contracted COVID-19, so they are continuing to learn from that data. His final issue was that of vaccines; though they have been proven very effective at preventing hospitalization and death in the normal healthy population, evidence is increasing that transplant recipients may not mount the same antibody response, causing anxiety and concern among patients.
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From page 80...
... EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES TO WATCH Rosenbaum asked what emerging technologies people are following closely and what kind of timeline people should expect for new and promising features in the field to become standard practice. Patel highlighted the challenges of conducting clinical trials because the number of patients with certain conditions is small and each program has a limited set of patients.
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From page 81...
... Lease commented that the discussions throughout the workshop highlighted the variety of issues many transplant patients face, many of which are nonmedical, such as accessing care or continuing strict adherence to difficult protocols. Gupta emphasized this concept as well, saying that each transplant recipient or candidate is different from the next, creating a need to target policy solutions to address the specific needs of individuals from different backgrounds.
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