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TTS will be publishing a special edition of the TTS Tribune the week of October 17, 2022 with Photos, Session Video Recordings and Congress Award Winners.

TTS 2022 - Virtual Post Congress Symposium


TTS Donates to Ukraine Hospital

Update on TTS Initiative to collect funds for Ukraine.

TTS recently donated $3850 USD to OHMATDYT (National Specialized Children's Hospital) in Kyiv, Ukraine. We had the opportunity to record a thank you message from the General Director of the hospital (Dr. Vladimir Zhovnir).

OHMATDYT is the largest children's hospital in Ukraine. The hospital initiated transplantation activity in early 2022 doing bone marrow transplants from unrelated donors, as well as organ transplants, including kidney transplants from deceased donors.

The hospital has experienced great challenges during the war (details). Transplantation was suspended for a period and is now being resumed (details)/). Of note, Professor Haberal and Baskent University are in close collaboration with OHMATDYT.

We would like to thank our members who contributed 50% of the total donation (list below).We are still accepting donations and TTS is committed to continue to match each contribution, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 USD.

In addition to the donation TTS provided 11 complimentary virtual registrations to the TTS 2022 Congress.

List of supporters to date
Rita R Alloway
Dana Baran
William Burlingham
Marcelo Cantarovich
Marlies Cornelissen
Joseph P Hillenburg on behalf of Transplant Families
Jeff and Lori Orlowski
Katherine Twombley (In honor of Dr. Mike Twombley)

Statement of The Transplantation Society’s support to the people of Ukraine.

As the global leader in transplantation, committed to health and life for all, The Transplantation Society expresses grave concern over the escalating violence and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

The protection of civilians and preservation of healthcare is imperative. TTS stands ready to support our colleagues, friends, families and patients impacted by this tragedy. As a non-State actor in official relations with the World Health Organization, we will seek collaborate with the WHO to provide our expert assistance on the Ukraine emergency https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/ukraine-emergency.

We are monitoring the situation and collected funds will be distributed to support the maintenance of healthcare in the Ukraine and assist transplant patients as may be possible. We will also reach out to contacts to assess how we can assist to re-establish transplantation activities once the crisis has ended. TTS will match each contribution, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 USD.



Transplantation Updates

Just Released - Transplantation - October 2022 Issue

COVID still keeps us all seeking information as it mutates and challenges transplant patients. There is more information here that will help you consider your day to day decisions. On a longer term perspective there are papers on research inputs and outputs, and an important and thoughtful paper on potential donors who have had prior complications in pregnancy. Did you ever think that the ferret would become an important model for transplantation disease? An important read if you undertake lung transplant research.

Table of Contents

On the Cover

Around the World

Research Highlights

Game Changer

People in Transplantation

Special Article

Expert Insight

Reviews


Transplantation - Week's Most Downloaded Paper

Building Kidney Exchange Programmes in Europe—An Overview of Exchange Practice and Activities

Considerable differences exist among the living donor Kidney Exchange Programmes (KEPs) that are in use and being built in Europe, contributing to a variation in the number of living donor transplants (Newsletter Transplant; International figures on donation and transplantation 2016). Efforts of European KEPs to exchange (best) practices and share approaches to address challenges have, however, been limited.

Transplantation Direct - Highlighted Tweet

A Novel Digital Algorithm for Identifying Liver Steatosis Using Smartphone-Captured Images

Access to lifesaving liver transplantation is limited by a severe organ shortage. One factor contributing to the shortage is the high rate of discard in livers with histologic steatosis. Livers with <30% macrosteatosis are generally considered safe for transplant. However, histologic assessment of steatosis by a pathologist remains subjective and is often limited by image quality. Here, we address this bottleneck by creating an automated digital algorithm for calculating histologic steatosis using only images of liver biopsy histology obtained with a smartphone.

DICG International Travel For Organ Transplantation (ITOT) Registry

Participant Recruitment for ITOT Study

With the support of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), The Transplantation Society (TTS), and the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG), we are conducting an anonymous online survey of transplant professionals.

The survey aims to find out what professionals think about the collection and reporting of data relating to international travel for organ transplantation, and about their experience of providing care for resident and/or international patients who travel for transplantation. The survey is focused on international travel for transplantation in general, not only travel that may represent transplant tourism.

Please click here to download and read the Participant Information Sheet which explains more about the study and what participation involves.

To access the survey directly, please visit here: https://is.gd/itotsurvey

We hope you will share this information with your professional colleagues and networks.

Please contact the research team as outlined in the Participant Information Sheet if you have any questions about the study. The survey will close on October 31st, 2022.

Kind regards,
Dr Georgina Irish
georgina.irish@adelaide.edu.au


Monkeypox in Transplantation - TID guidance September 2022

Lead authors: Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Siriorn Watcharananan, Ban Hock Tan

Preamble

This document provides guidance for transplant practitioners on monkeypox (MPX) and organ transplants. We acknowledge that our current understanding of the disease is incomplete. This guidance will require revision as new evidence emerges.

In these guidelines, we adopt a conservative approach to organ donation with regards to MPX transmission. We err on the side of safety.

We recognize that many institutions already have experience with MPX. This document makes suggestions, but its aim is not to be dogmatic. Individual programs and patients should make their own decisions based on the clinical circumstances of the potential donor and the needs of the potential recipient, as well as their own experience with MPX disease.


ISN-TTS Sister Center Program


Thanks to a partnership with The Transplantation Society (TTS), this program pairs up emerging transplant centers with established centers so they can benefit from educational support and work together to increase opportunities for kidney transplant patients in low-resource countries.

In Case You Missed It - Sept 28 - Webinar: TID - Clinicopathologic Conference Series


TTS Needs Assessment Survey

This survey focuses on issues encountered by physicians in day-to-day decision-making.

Your responses will aid TTS in developing strategies, programs and resources to improve access and transparency in transplantation, emphasizing increasing deceased donor organ transplantation.

The information collected will also aid the work TTS is doing as part of our World Health Organization collaboration.

All responses will be kept confidential and anonymous.

The survey will take 6+ minutes and must be done from a computer or tablet.

1st Congress of the Egyptian Liver Transplant Society

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