Why Altruistic Organ Donations Are Not Meeting Demands.

Solid-organ transplantation remains the optimal therapeutic option for end-stage organ disease. Altruistic donation represents the ultimate sign of generosity and the most important gift of life. Currently, <10% of the global needs for transplant are fulfilled.

A Different Perspective of COVID-19 Pandemic: Efficacy and Safety of mRNA Vaccines in Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Individuals (Part 3).

Shortly after the declaration of the pandemic, several anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines entered phase 3 clinical trials. One year later, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna published their initial trial results, encompassing a 2-month follow-up. The studies were only designed to test whether the vaccines were effective and safe on the short-term.

A Different Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Validity of COVID-19 Testing and Protective Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (Part 2).

The causative agent for COVID-19 was identified by next-generation sequencing from samples received from several pneumonia patients. The detection of the coronavirus was done through real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses performed from plasma sample. Ribonucleic acid extracted from a patient's bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was used as a template to clone and sequence a genome from lineage B of the betacoronavirus.

A Different Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Origin of the Outbreak (Part 1).

In December 2019, an outbreak caused by novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) started in Wuhan, China. After extensive speculation about a causative agent, a novel betacoronavirus, in the same family as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, was identified via next-generation sequencing from samples received from several pneumonia patients. Ribonucleic acid extracted from the patient's bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was used as a template to clone and sequence the genome of SARS-CoV-2.

Transplantation in the Context of Migration and Refugees: A Summary of the DICG and TTS Ethics Committee Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2022.

Global conflicts and humanitarian crises have resulted in an unprecedented number of refugees and migrants. This challenges the limited resources of health care systems and jeopardizes the availability of transplant care for these deserving migrants and refugees. This was the basis for a workshop held during the Congress of the Transplantation Society (Buenos Aires, 2022).