Background: Effective follow-up and management after organ transplantation are crucial for transplant recipients. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have emerged as a significant approach for facilitating follow-up and management. However, there is a lack of…
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Kidney transplantation offers life-extending treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease, yet long-term risks of graft loss and death persist. Traditional prediction models using only baseline data often fail to capture patients’ evolving health…
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Psychosocial risk factors and social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to persistent disparities in liver transplantation access. We developed a large language model framework to extract and analyze how these factors influence care trajectories….
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Dalton Shaull, Director of Digital Services, XVIVO Bio
In organ transplantation, timing isn’t just critical. It is the difference between life and death. Every transplant is a race against the clock, requiring precise coordination among…
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Oxford University spin-out OrganOx has been acquired by Terumo Corporation in a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) deal, representing one of the largest exits of a UK MedTech company.
The firm, founded by Constantin Coussios and Peter Friend,…
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Innovation Fund announced it has made an investment in Northernmost, a medical device company to aid in the development of the company’s kidney pump, NoMo.NoMo technology is designed to…
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Corneal transplantation is the primary treatment for irreversible corneal diseases, but due to limited donor availability, bioengineered corneal equivalents are being developed as a solution, with biocompatibility, structural integrity, and physical function considered key…
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Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) enables advanced assessment of human lungs for transplant suitability. We developed a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based approach to analyze the largest cohort of isolated lung radiographs to date. CNNs…
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What You Should Know:
– Frontier Bio Corporation has successfully created complex microscale lung tissue by combining 3D bioprinting with the self-assembling capabilities of stem cells, mirroring the natural organ development process.
– Frontier Bio’s breakthrough…
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By Shania Kennedy
June 07, 2024 – Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have been awarded a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of…
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