For decades, transplant programs have performed liver transplants on patients with alcohol-related cirrhosis. Most of these patients have not used alcohol for many months, if not years. However, a small subset of patients—many of them younger and female—are presenting with acute alcoholic hepatitis. Historically, liver transplants have not been performed on these patients.
The opioid epidemic has caused the incidence of acute hepatitis C (HCV) in the United States to triple over the last several years. More than 5 million people in the nation carry the virus. Because many of these people are undiagnosed, especially in high-risk populations, many organs from HCV-positive donors are still being procured.
The American Cancer Society identifies neuroblastoma as “by far the most common cancer in infants (less than 1-year-old).” According to the latest statistics, neuroblastoma accounts for about 6 percent of all cancers in children, with an estimated 800 new cases identified each year in the United States.
Through a grant from The Physicians Foundation, Baylor Scott & White Health is establishing interventions to address burnout of female physicians through networking, leadership development and mentorship.
Traditionally, one of the clinical hallmarks characterizing heart failure has been a low ejection fraction (EF) of the left ventricle. EF is the percent of blood pushed out by the heart with each heartbeat. But there is a growing awareness of a significant portion of the heart failure population who do not display low EF— a condition known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
