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CareDx The Transplant Company Surpasses 80,000 Patient Milestone
Over 80,000 Heart, Kidney, and Lung Organ Transplant Recipients Have Used AlloSure or AlloMap in their Post-Transplant Care SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec.
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[{"type":"text","content":"Over 80,000 Heart, Kidney, and Lung Organ Transplant Recipients Have Used AlloSure or AlloMap in their Post-Transplant Care\nSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA) – The Transplant Company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers – today announced that it has served over 80,000 organ transplant patients with AlloSure® or AlloMap® for their post-transplant care.1 CareDx AlloSure and AlloMap are the most widely used donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) tests used to measure organ transplant health. More than 90 percent of the nation’s heart transplant centers use AlloMap Heart and 70 percent of kidney transplant centers use AlloSure Kidney.1 Introduced in October 2021, AlloSure Lung has already been adopted in over 20 lung transplant centers.1 “CareDx’s number one priority is to support patients through all aspects of their journey, from the moment they are put on the transplant list through their procedure and the lifetime of care they require after,” said Reg Seeto, CEO and President of CareDx. “Our dream has always been one organ for the life of that patient, which requires active monitoring of the transplanted organ to identify risk of injury or a change in the immune state of the organ. Reaching this milestone of serving 80,000 transplant patients is a testament to the value of both AlloMap and AlloSure being incorporated into the standard management of heart, kidney, and lung transplant patients.” CareDx transplant solutions, including AlloSure and AlloMap, have made an immediate and lasting impact on the lives of tens of thousands of organ transplant recipients. Since 2013, CareDx has been proud to host a transplant patient speaker at its monthly Town Hall employee meeting. The company recently celebrated its 100th patient speaker. Three of these celebrated patients include: Alexandra Harrison-Flaxman had her second kidney transplant in May of 2013 after being on dialysis for almost 9 years following the failure of her first transplant. She underwent several biopsies within the first year of the transplant to make sure she wasn’t rejecting the new kidney, and no allograft problems were detected. She requested AlloSure because of previous biopsy complica...