Publications by authors named "Amber Carrier"
Article Synopsis
- Severe iliac artery calcification can prevent patients with end-stage renal disease from being eligible for kidney transplants.
- There are limited surgical options available for treating this calcification, highlighting the need for improved methods to help patients access transplant care.
- This text discusses two cases where a new technique, remote endarterectomy, was used on the external iliac artery, allowing both patients to be listed for and successfully receive kidney transplants.
Organ allotransplantation has now reached an impassable ceiling inherent to the limited supply of human donor organs. In the United States, there are currently over 100,000 individuals on the national transplant waiting list awaiting a kidney, heart, and/or liver transplant. This is in contrast with only a fraction of them receiving a living or deceased donor allograft.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) receiving post-transplant immunosuppression show increased COVID-19-related mortality. It is unclear whether an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccines can overcome the reduced immune responsiveness against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants.
Methods: We analysed humoral immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in 53 SOTR receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.