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What’s new in transplantation Are kidney donors worse off? The meeting was opened by Dr Anna Price (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham) who addressed the long-term cardiovascular effects of unilateral nephrectomy in living kidney donors.1 Previous studies have shown a significant prevalence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD),2,3 but the effects of reduced renal function in living kidney donors has been unexplored until now. A recent study by Price et al. demonstrated that living kidney donors had a reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from 95 to 67 ml/min

Professor Jignesh K Patel The human heart has evolved over millennia whereby it is able to pump up to 20 litres per minute upon demand, it can adapt to work efficiently at altitudes of up to 30,000 feet and at high atmospheric pressures under sea. It is not surprising, therefore, that the first attempts at therapies for end-stage heart disease focused on orthotopic transplantation. Certainly, over the last 50 years since Barnard’s first heart transplant, significant advances in immunosuppression and post-transplant management have led to heart transplantation being the optimal long-term solution. One-year survival now exceeds 90% at many in

Figure 1. Two-dimensional (2D) transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) long-axis colour Doppler across the aortic valve showing the extent and severity of aortic regurgitation (AR) Case A 59-year-old male patient was referred to our hospital for further management of end-stage heart failure and transplant assessment secondary to atypical cardiomyopathy (arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy [ARVC] with left ventricular [LV] involvement). Figure 2. 2D TOE long-axis colour Doppler across the aortic valve showing the extent and severity of AR Following the multi-disciplinary selection process and accompanying investigations, a Heartwar