Transplant Community Educational Materials
Medicare Part B - Enrollment FAQ
- A resource to answer your questions and guide you through coverage of the new extended coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients
Medicare Part B ID - Patient FAQ
Join Dr. Lyndsey Bowman and Dr. Lisa Potter as they discuss the new Extended Coverage of Immunosuppressive Drugs for Kidney Transplant Patients.
AST Information for Transplant Recipients and Candidates
COVID-19 Handouts for Recipients and Candidates
COVID-19 Answering Your Questions Video *Updated info 08/24/2020*
COVID-19: Answering Your Questions Video (AST) *04/28/2020*
Navigating the COVID Crisis & the Reopening as a Transplant Patient (Natera)
Transplant Patient in a New COVID-19 World (TRIO)
See additional resources on the AST website.
COVID-19 and the Transplant Community: Answering your Questions on Treatment and Prevention
Living Liver Donation Q&A
Join AST and the Committee Education Committee as they discuss living Liver Donation and share information regarding resources from the Living Liver Toolkit
Moderated by Dr. Adam Mikolajczyk
Panelists: Dianne LaPointe Rudow, Director of The Zweig Family Center for Living Donation Dr. Benjamin Samstein, Chief of Liver Transplantation Rambo Tran, Living Liver Donor
Safe Living After Transplant - Food, animals, and outdoors
Join Dr. Habiba Hassouna from The American Society of Transplantation Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP) of safe living after transplant. Dr. Hassouna talks through safe practices involving food/water, animals/pets, and outdoors.
Safe Living After Transplant - Travel Safety
Join Dr. Shana Gleeson from The American Society of Transplantation Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP) as she discusses the importance of traveling safely after transplant.
Videos recorded during the 2022 Transplant Games of America
Fight for your Right - Transplant Advocacy 101: Hear an overview of important transplant-related issues currently facing our government, and get trained on how to be an effective advocate!
Healthy Living with a Transplant: During this session, we'll discuss tips for eating and drinking, having pets, traveling, sports, gardening, routine health maintenance, and more!
Videos recorded during the 2018 Transplant Community Summit during the Transplant Games of America
One Transplant for Life - The Latest in Transplant Research: What are we doing research for and why? Key research target areas, where they are and where they're going.
Fight for your Right - Transplant Advocacy 101: Hear an overview of important transplant-related issues currently facing our government, and get trained on how to be an effective advocate!
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Preserving your Sanity: Tips and tricks for recipients, caregivers, and donors.
Healthy Living with a Transplant: During this session, we'll discuss tips for eating and drinking, having pets, traveling, sports, gardening, routine health maintenance, and more!
Financial Concerns when Living with a Transplant or Considering Donation: Healthcare costs, combined with time away from work, can become a major financial challenge. These planning tips, as well as information about transplant assistance programs, will help you ensure your affairs are in order.
Other Video Resources
- Kidz Helping Kidz: Stories about transplant from kids for kids
- Pediatric Transition Portal
- Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: A Guide for Patients and Families
- Getting a New Liver: Facts about Liver Transplants (Pediatric)
- For Parents: Vaping and Transplant
- DASH Diet for Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine and Solid Organ Transplantation
- Pneumococcal Vaccination for Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
- Overview of Catch-up Pneumococcal Vaccination
- Physical Activity after Pediatric Transplantation
- Psychosocial Challenges for Pediatric Transplant Recipients
- Getting a New Liver: Facts about Liver Transplants
- Getting a New Pancreas: Facts about Pancreas Transplants
- Getting a New Heart: Information for Patients About Heart Transplant
- Getting a New Kidney: Facts about Kidney Transplants
- Intestinal Transplantation: Facts about Intestinal Transplantation
- Getting a New Lung: Facts about Lung Transplants
- The Growing Need
- Live Kidney Donor Toolkit
- Includes:
- Medical Toolkit
- Financial Toolkit
- Includes:
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Who can be a Living Donor? Questions and Answers About Live Donation
COVID-19
Pediátrico
- Trasplante renal pediátrico -una guía para pacientes y familias
- Recibiendo Un Nuevo Hígado: Hechos Sobre los Trasplantes de Hígado (Pediátrico)
Recursos Generales
- Paternidad Después de Recibir un Nuevo Trasplante
- Medicinas para mantener a su nuevo órgano sano
- Obteniendo Un Nuevo Riñón: Datos Acerca de los Trasplantes de Riñón
- Obtención de un Nuevo Hígado: Datos Acerca del Trasplante de Hígado
- Seleccionando un Centro de Trasplante
- Estrategias Para Una Vida Más Segura Después Del Transplante
- Folletos de educación del paciente de ensayos clínicos
- Obteniendo un Nuevo Páncreas: Datos Acerca de Trasplantes de Páncreas
- Trasplante Intestinal: Información Sobre el Trasplante Intestinal
- Trasplante de Hígado de Donante Vivo
- Donantes de Mayor Riesgo: lo que el Candidato de Trasplante Necesita Saber
- ¿Quién puede ser un donante de órganos vivo? Preguntas y respuestas acerca de la donación de órganos en vida
- Obteniendo Un Nuevo Pulmón: Información acerca de los trasplantes de pulmón
- Recibiendo un nuevo corazón: Información para pacientes sobre trasplante de corazón
Los Donantes Vivos de Organos
- Hoja de trabajo de costos de los donantes vivos de órganos
- Donación en vida y empleo
- Obtener y mantener un seguro después de donación en vida
- Centro Nacional de Ayuda para donantes vivos
- Leyes federales y estatales sobre la donación en vida
- Recaudación de fondos para gastos de los donantes vivos: P&R
- Programas de ayuda financiera sin fines de lucro para donantes vivos
- Donación de órganos en vida para miembros de la fuerza militar de EE.UU
- Donación de riñón para personas con presión arterial alta (Hipertensión)
- Donación de riñón para personas con cálculos renales
- Donación de riñón para personas con obesidad
- Donación de riñón para personas con síndrome metabólico
- Donación de riñón para personas prediabéticas
- Donación de riñón para personas con sangre en la orina (hematuria)
- Donación de riñón para personas en riesgofamiliar de enfermedad renal poliquística
- Donación de riñón vivo y posibles problemas de cirugía
- La donación de riñón vivo y la posibilidad de insuficiencia renal
- Donantes renales vivos y salud mental
- Cómo la donación de riñón vivo puede afectar el embarazo
- Donantes de riñón vivos no dirigidos
- Intercambio de pares de riñones
Website Resources:
Transplant Hero – Interactive alarm application that was created for transplant patients by medical doctors to help you with managing your medications.
Transplant Living – A website developed and managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) that houses information from before and after transplant, to financial costs, and general facts and statistics surrounding organ transplantation.
If you were there then, we need you now – This is a brochure for individuals 50 and over that covers organ, eye, and tissue donation. This brochure was developed by HRSA, National Institutes of Health and the Administration on Aging.
It Takes All Types – Join students at historically black colleges and universities across American and step up to help African Americans who urgently need blood and lifesaving organ transplants. It Takes All Types is an American Red Cross campaign.
ConsumerAffairs.com – This website ranks the best online pharmacies.
Organdonor.gov – U.S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network – A unique public-private partnership that links all professionals involved in the U.S. donation and transplantation system.
Canadian Hepatopulmonary Syndrome Program Website – Hepatopulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a rare abnormality of the lung which is caused by liver disease. This is an informational website for patients, practitioners, and researchers maintained by the HPS Program.
Opportunities for Organ Donor Intervention Research – Learn more about the time-critical steps involved in organ donation and transplantation and how organ donor intervention research helps maximize the gifts of donated organs.
My Transplant Coach – An interactive decisions aid to help patients and families learn about dialysis and kidney transplant.
Within Reach - This website is intended to help people with hand or upper limb amputations make informed treatment decisions. With comprehensive information, including what hand/arm transplantation is, who may be eligible, and the potential benefits and risks.