Do GLP-1 Drugs Pose a Risk to Lung Transplant Recipients?
People taking GLP-1 receptor agonists appeared to be at elevated risk of rejection episodes after lung transplantation, a small, single-center cohort study suggested. In a retrospective review of 301 consecutive lung transplants, the 34 lung recipients taking a GLP-1 drug for diabetes or obesity early in their post-transplant course had 15.19-fold (95% CI 2.08-23.55, P<0.05) […]
Landmark Pig Heart Recipient Succumbed to Xenograft Rejection, Had Porcine Virus
It turns out that the world’s first pig-to-human heart xenotransplantation had resulted in atypical rejection that may have contributed to the patient’s death 2 months later, according to the team behind the pioneering surgery from January. The transplant surgeon Bartley Griffith, MD, of University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues revealed that […]
Opinion | Coping With Rejection Requires Resilience
My first serious rejection in life came in the form of a letter — a rejection letter from medical school. All 10 I’d applied to in fact. I wasn’t expecting to be shut out from my chosen profession. So, I regrouped, and I was accepted into medical school the second time around. I guess you […]
What Does Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria Feel Like? RSD
Rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) is a severe emotional response to rejection in the form of extreme rage or overwhelming hopelessness Rejection sensitivity dysphoria (RSD) is a severe emotional response to rejection, whether real or perceived, in the form of extreme rage or overwhelming hopelessness. Of course, rejection hurts, and it is normal to feel sad […]