PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care

The number of pancreas transplants in the United States was largely unchanged in 2021 at 963 transplants compared with 962 in 2020, showing that recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic was not as pronounced in pancreas transplantation as in other organs

CONCLUSIONS: Workplace viral transmission may contribute to an excess risk of COVID-19 in male workers born in Eastern Europe, but most foreign-born employees in at-risk occupations seem not to be at higher occupational risk than native born.

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The past 5 years have posed challenges to the field of heart transplantation. The 2018 heart allocation policy revision was accompanied by anticipated practice adjustments and increased use of short-term circulatory support, changes that may

In 2021, liver transplant volume continued to grow, with a record 9,234 transplants performed in the United States, 8,665 (93.8%) from deceased donors and 569 (6.2%) from living donors. There were 8,733 (94.6%) adult and 501 (5.4%) pediatric liver

CONCLUSIONS: Initial evidence suggests that periodontitis may be associated with a more severe COVID-19 and with a higher risk of death due to COVID-19.

This chapter updates the COVID-19 chapter from the 2020 Annual Data Report with trends through February 12, 2022, and introduces trends in COVID-19-specific cause of death on the waiting list and posttransplant. Transplant rates remain at or above

The OPTN/SRTR 2021 Annual Data Report presents the status of the solid organ transplantation system in the United States from 2010 through 2021. Organ-specific chapters are presented for kidney, pancreas, liver, intestine, heart, and lung transplant

The Nipah virus (NiV) infection is one of the newly emerging deadly zoonotic diseases which carries a significant weightage of mortality among its victims. Due to the relatively recent history of its emergence and only a few known outbreaks, we

The number of lung transplants has continued to decline since 2020, a period that coincides with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lung allocation policy continues to undergo considerable change in preparation for adoption of the Composite