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PTG at the ATC’s 2020 Virtual Congress

5/29/2020

Every year, the American Transplant Congress (ATC) gathers experts of organ transplantation from all over the world. For the 2020 edition, due to sanitary concerns and travel regulations, the in-person ATC initially planned in Philadelphia has been cancelled and replaced by a Virtual Congress. The event starts on 30 May 2020 for 3 days of live broadcasts.

The topic of ATC 2020 is “The Science of Tomorrow Starts Today” and covers the latest research in the field of transplantation. It showcases the research done in the industry too.

A considerable decline in the number of organ transplants since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in France and the US

5/12/2020

A French-American study conducted by researchers from the Paris Transplant Group (University of Paris, Inserm and AP-HP) just published in The Lancet reveals a more than 90% drop in the number of organ procurement and transplants during the COVID-19 pandemic in France. The trend, which is also continuing across the Atlantic, poses a life-threatening risk to the thousands of people waiting for transplants in France and the United States.

Disparities in Acceptance of Deceased Donor Kidneys Between the United States and France and Estimated Effects of Increased US Acceptance

8/26/2019

New publication in JAMA Internal Medicine: The first international analysis of renal transplant patient data shows that a change in allocation criteria in the United States could benefit patients on the waiting list. Thousands more kidneys could be transplanted each year if the United States used, as France does, kidneys from older donors.
Nearly 5,000 people in the United States and 3,500 in Europe die each year waiting for a kidney transplant. Yet, over the same period, in the United States, more than 3,500 available kidneys were discarded. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine today published our results, obtained with the help of an international team, that compared the use of kidneys available in the United States and France between 2004 and 2014.

Using a new approach based on validated analytical methods and computer simulations, this work revealed that French transplant centres are much more likely to transplant kidneys from older donors than their American counterparts, and that this effectively increases the number of patients transplanted.

PTG at the ATC’s 2020 Virtual Congress

A considerable decline in the number of organ transplants since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in France and the US

Disparities in Acceptance of Deceased Donor Kidneys Between the United States and France and Estimated Effects of Increased US Acceptance

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