Pipes Output http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=d7cae056cec693b74ba403d6303c0e27 Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:12:58 +0000 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/boy-leaves-hospital-new-hands-n416516 NBCNews featured the story of Zion Harvey's bilateral hand transplant as he prepared to be discharged from CHOP earlier this week. Lead surgeon in Harvey's case, L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair of the department of Orthopaedics, the Paul D. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, professor of Surgery in the division of Plastic Surgery, and director of the Penn and CHOP Hand Transplant Programs, was quoted on Zion's recovery, the great progress he's made in therapy, and the challenges ahead. Outlets across the country including MSNBC, People.com, and the Baltimore Sun, also covered the story. http://delicious.com/url/95754b9cf786a9298b37ed1021ded2a8#pennmedcomms Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:40:04 +0000 http://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2015/08/26/zion-harvey-hand-transplant/ Philadelphia Magazine's BeWell blog reported that eight-year-old Zion Harvey - who last month became the world's first pediatric recipient of a bilateral hand transplant - was discharged from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The blog cited Penn Medicine's Facebook post announcing his release, which included new photos of Harvey with lead surgeon L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair of the department of Orthopaedics, and director of the Penn and CHOP Hand Transplant Programs, prior to his departure. http://delicious.com/url/a5d79cd27ff6ed4864c511d79984d3e9#pennmedcomms Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:18:55 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/US/delaware-woman-receives-kidney-father-killed-car-accident/story?id=33066463 In continuing coverage, ABCNews.com reports on a Delaware woman who has needed a kidney transplant for almost two years, and now has her father's kidney after he recently died in a car accident. Penn patient Stacey Knox traveled to HUP earlier this month, her husband said, adding that the transplant was successful, and she's recovering and being monitored. "It's certainly a bittersweet story, but I think this is one of those opportunities where a parent gets to make a lasting and final gift to their child," Knox's surgeon Peter Abt, MD, Surgical Director of Kidney Transplantation, said. "Any parent would want to be able to provide for their children in such a way." http://delicious.com/url/c1b337ac658f79bb4b9304ec9476e430#pennmedcomms Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:09:34 +0000 http://6abc.com/health/delaware-woman-receives-kidney-of-father-killed-in-accident/925276/ 6ABC reports that a man who died in a pedestrian accident Friday night in Delaware has given the gift of life to his daughter, Penn patient Stacey Knox. Knox has battled diabetes since she was a little girl. Last year, after her kidneys failed, she went onto the transplant list. Her father wanted to help, but because of his own health, he wasn't able to be a living donor. On Monday morning, Knox received a new kidney from her father, who also donated his other kidney and liver to patients on the wait list. http://delicious.com/url/ffa967649f240f4ba5ead069dee76cd3#pennmedcomms Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:00:20 +0000 http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/6270KX/6270KX_8704 In continuing coverage, the Philadelphia Business Journal publishes responses to three questions by L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Penn and director of Penn and CHOP’s Hand Transplant Program. Levin recently led a 40-member care team that performed the first successful bilateral hand transplant on a pediatric patient in the world. http://delicious.com/url/9de4ba7ab60e11a9e8802290d0a126b4#pennmedcomms Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:03:36 +0000 http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/boy-double-hand-transplant-32818209 ABC World News Tonight Person of the Week segment http://delicious.com/url/c1baadecd5693c09b6cbe69748ac70f1#pennmedcomms Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:57:40 +0000 https://bitly.com/shorten/ In continuing coverage, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight both highlighted Zion Harvey, the eight-year-old who recently became the first pediatric patient in the world to undergo a successful bilateral hand transplant, and the team of Penn doctors who performed the groundbreaking procedure. ABC World News Tonight named the patient and his 40-member care team as the Persons of the Week. http://delicious.com/url/44ec802c08043fcf64064927a9f813ac#pennmedcomms Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:56:42 +0000 http://bit.ly/1JAwLMa In continuing coverage, outlets around the world report on the first bilateral hand transplant performed on a child, and led by Penn surgeons. On Fox News, L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair of Orthopaedics, director of the Penn and CHOP Hand Transplant Programs, and lead surgeon, said of the patient, eight-year-old Zion Harvey, "as he strengthens with intense therapy over weeks and weeks, months and months, it's our belief that it will have a good grip, functional hands and whether he throws a football or a baseball or a basketball, we hope he'll be throwing something." http://delicious.com/url/9558228a126a87d083d82c58d23f3d9b#pennmedcomms Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:15:38 +0000 http://www.healio.com/hepatology/hepatitis-c/news/online/%7B3fef6528-8f9a-431b-8b33-6d3d675bb961%7D/researchers-recommend-use-of-hcv-positive-organs-for-kidney-transplant According to Healio.com, a new paper by Penn researchers published in The New England Journal of Medicine, urges clinicians to consider transplanting kidneys infected with hepatitis C virus to uninfected people waiting for a kidney. The authors, led by Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, and David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the Gastroenterology Division, say this could reduce mortality rates among this population. http://delicious.com/url/74a998a3fe0f245ea3f3a8e67b8518de#pennmedcomms Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:44:13 +0000 http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterubel/2015/06/24/your-new-liver-is-only-a-learjet-away-first-of-three-parts/ Penn is mentioned in a story on Forbes.com about a new upstart looking to fly patients to different regions of the country to receive an organ transplant. The story dives into how donor recipients are chosen and the waitlisting process. "When a patient at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia suffers fatal brain damage, her liver will typically be offered first to a patient within the same local transplant area. Thus, patients at Temple University will have no priority over those at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which resides in the same transplant area," the article states. http://delicious.com/url/a912195b44a15ac203291538fba431f4#pennmedcomms Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:02:51 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2015/03/kidney/ HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)-positive kidney transplant patients experienced superior outcomes when compared to kidney transplant patients with Hepatitis C and those infected with both HIV and Hepatitis C, according to a study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and published online in Kidney International. Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/12/firstexvivo/ Transplant surgeons at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have successfully used a new technique that repairs damaged donated lungs that would have been unusable, allowing for successful transplantation of the reconditioned lungs into a patient. The patient, a 66-year-old man from the Philadelphia suburbs, was transplanted at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and is the first in the region to receive donated lungs using this new procedure. Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/12/transplants/ Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the program, Penn Medicine physicians have completed their 1000th lifesaving heart transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/08/early/ A physician from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has received the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2011/11/hand-transplant-pressconf/ For the first time in the Delaware Valley Region, a patient has undergone a complex and intricate bilateral hand transplant that could significantly enhance the quality-of-life for persons with multiple limb loss. The procedure was performed by Penn's Hand Transplant Program which operates under the leadership of the Penn Transplant Institute and in collaboration with Gift of Life Donor Program, the nonprofit organ and tissue donor program which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. The highly-trained team's first bilateral hand transplant was performed in September. At this time, the patient is progressing well and both the patient and donor family wish to remain anonymous. Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2011/10/bilateral-hand-transplant/ For the first time in the Delaware Valley Region, a patient has undergone a complex and intricate transplant procedure that could significantly enhance the quality-of-life for persons with multiple limb loss. In September, a highly-skilled, specially-trained team from the newly established Penn Hand Transplant Program at the Penn Transplant Institute performed its first bilateral hand transplant. Working closely with its partner, Gift of Life Donor Program, a team of 30 members – 12 surgeons, three anesthesiologists and 15 nurses – performed the 11-and-a-half hour double transplant procedure – a Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation – that involved experts in solid organ transplantation, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, reconstructive microsurgery and anesthesia. Details of this history-making procedure will be forthcoming a press conference tomorrow at 10 am at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2010/12/hand-transplant-program/ The Penn Transplant Institute, the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Division of Plastic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) have collaborated to form the Penn Hand Transplant Program. The Program will operate under the leadership of the Penn Transplant Institute and in collaboration with the Gift of Life Donor Program, the nonprofit organ and tissue donor program which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2008/11/genetic-match-transplant.html Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found an association between the genetics of donor-recipient matches in kidney transplants and complications during the first week after transplantation. The team, led by Malek Kamoun MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Immunology and Histocompatibility Laboratory, and Harold Feldman MD, MSCE, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, has shown that small differences in the building blocks of cell-surface proteins used to match donors and recipients for deceased-donor kidney transplantation was associated with an increased risk for delayed allograft function, or DGF. Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2008/11/transplant-house-dedication.html PENN Medicine announced today the creation of the Clyde F. Barker Transplant House, a 'home away from home' designed to help ease the unique economic and emotional stresses of transplant families. Modeled after the Ronald McDonald Houses and named for the physician who performed the first kidney transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, the Barker Transplant House will be located at 3940 Spruce Street on Penn's campus and will offer comfortable, convenient accommodations in a supportive community setting - all at a nominal cost. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2008/06/organ-transplant-risk-disclosure.html University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine physicians and bioethicists are calling for a new, more standardized way for patients in need of organ transplants to be informed of the risks they face. If adopted, their policy recommendations could promote greater equity in how organs are allocated while restricting patients’ abilities to “cherry-pick” the best organs. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/feb07/temporary-total-artificial-heart-release.html A 46-year-old former fitness instructor, suffering from biventricular end-stage heart failure and in irreversible cardiogenic shock, became the first to receive a new temporary Total Artificial Heart in the Northeast U.S. The artificial heart was implanted by cardiac surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The patient later received a donor heart. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/jan07/gift-of-life-award.htm Members of the media are invited to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) for the first annual Delaware Valley Health Council Gift of Life Award presentation. The award was established last year to recognize a hospital for excellence in family care and outstanding rates of organ donation. Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/oct06/hepc.htm Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine have found that heart transplant patients who receive a donor heart from a person with hepatitis C (HCV) have a lower rate of survival. Corresponding Author Leanne Gasink, MD, MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania's Division of Infectious Disease and colleagues report their findings in the October 17th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000