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BKPyV-DNAemia Affects Nearly One in Five Kidney Transplant Recipients

Physician's Weekly

BKPyV-DNAemia is common after kidney transplant but rarely leads to graft loss or death, likely due to improved screening and management practices. Over the past decade, expert guidance has increasingly recommended BKPyV-DNAemia screening for kidney transplant recipients. in patients with HLA mismatch of 3/6 or 4/6, 2.06

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

I had it on my screen. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. And it was a longitudinal course where we spent time with a patient with a serious illness the entire year, the entire first year of medical school.

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