Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplant From Donors After Brain Death vs Donors After Circulatory Death: A Single-Center Follow-up Study Over 3 Decades.

Background: Despite an increase in the number of pancreas transplants in the Scandiatransplant region in the last decade, there continues to be a gap between demand and supply of transplantable organs. This imbalance has encouraged the transplant community to consider new sources of grafts, such as the reintroduction of donors after circulatory death (DCD) who were the standard donors in our center before 1988.

Material And Methods: In this long-term follow-up study, we compare 44 consecutive, simultaneous pancreas kidney transplants performed at Karolinska University Hospital between 1986 and 1991: 21 patients received DCD grafts and 23 received grafts from donors after brain death.

Survival among solid organ transplant recipients diagnosed with cancer compared to nontransplanted cancer patients-A nationwide study.

Solid organ transplant recipients (OTRs) have an increased cancer risk but their survival once diagnosed with cancer has seldom been assessed. We therefore investigated cancer-specific survival among OTRs with a wide range of cancer forms nationally in Sweden. The study included 2,143 OTRs with cancer, and 946,089 nontransplanted cancer patients diagnosed 1992-2013.

Decreasing incidence of cancer after liver transplantation-A Nordic population-based study over 3 decades.

Cancer remains one of the most serious long-term complications after liver transplantation (LT). Data for all adult LT patients between 1982 and 2013 were extracted from the Nordic Liver Transplant Registry. Through linkage with respective national cancer-registry data, we calculated standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) based on country, sex, calendar time, and age-specific incidence rates.

Adding 3D automated breast ultrasound to mammography screening in women with heterogeneously and extremely dense breasts: Report from a hospital-based, high-volume, single-center breast cancer screening program.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the 3D automated breast ultrasound (3D ABUS) when added to full field digital screening mammography (FFDSM), on breast cancer detection and recall rates in asymptomatic women with dense breasts examined in a high-volume breast cancer screening mammography center.

Methods And Material: 1668 asymptomatic women, age 40-74 years, with heterogeneously dense parenchyma (ACR3) or extremely dense breast (ACR4) were included in the study. FFDSM was performed using standard craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views followed by anteroposterior (AP); lateral (LAT) and medial (MED) acquisitions of 3D ABUS in both breasts.

Survival After Transplantation in Patients With Mutations Other Than Val30Met: Extracts From the FAP World Transplant Registry.

Background: Liver transplantation (LTx) has been performed for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) since 1990. Outcomes for a relatively large series of LTx ATTR patients with the Val30Met (mutation are available, but for non-Val30Met patients, only a few reports with a small number of patients exist. Here, we present outcomes for non-Val30Met ATTR patients after LTx, as reported to the Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy World Transplant Registry (FAPWTR).