SAN DIEGO—Donor kidney volume is a major determinant of allograft kidney function one year after renal transplantation, according to researchers.

SAN DIEGO—Non-black renal transplant patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have better survival if they receive a kidney from a non-black rather than a black donor, data show.

SAN DIEGO—The duration of delayed graft function (DGF) influences mortality risk among renal transplant recipients surviving 90 days after transplantation, a study found.

SAN DIEGO—Deceased donor kidneys with acute kidney injury (AKI) offer excellent short term patient and graft survival, investigators reported here at the 2010 American Transplant Congress.

SAN DIEGO—Recipients of kidneys from expanded criteria donors (ECDs) with elevated terminal creatinine may be at higher risk for delayed graft function (DGF) and primary nonfunction (PNF), according to researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.

SAN DIEGO—Low-dose fluconazole is safe and highly effective for antifungal prophylaxis after kidney transplantation, according to a study conducted by researchers at University of Utah Health Care in Salt Lake City.

SAN DIEGO—Hypomagnesemia in the first three months following renal transplantation may be a risk factor for the development of rapid new-onset type 2 diabetes (NODAT), according to researchers.

SAN DIEGO—Patients who undergo renal transplantation can experience significant weight gain in the first six months after the procedure, and the reason may not be related to changes in dietary intake, researchers reported here at the 2010 American Transplant Congress.

Recipients of expanded-criteria donor (ECD) kidneys have similar patient and graft survival regardless of their history of pretransplant cardiac disease (PCD), even if the recipients had coronary revascularization prior to transplantation, a study shows.

Shipping live-donor kidneys to transplant centers over long distances—even transcontinentally—does not adversely affect recipient outcomes, a recent experience involving four transplant centers suggests.