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BOSTON — Improvements in frailty among patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation lowered the risk for mortality regardless of baseline frailty and MELD-Na score, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2019.

Transplant center was associated with survival benefit of heart transplant recipients, according to findings published in JAMA.

Shared medical appointments for patients with vitiligo allowed improved access to dermatologic care without compromising patient satisfaction, according to a study.

Donate Life America and the Fresenius Medical Care Foundation recently announced the groups would launch a national, universal living donor kidney registry and at-home testing kit to improve access to living donation.

Newly published findings suggest that while increased utilization of “high-risk” kidneys was associated with shorter time to transplantation, there was substantial variation in acceptance patterns among centers.

New data from a single-center study indicate that not only was the rate of mortality high among patients with advanced pulmonary sarcoidosis who were awaiting lung transplant, but the lung allocation score did not predict death on the waitlist in this patient population.