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.

Steroid-free maintenance immunosuppression with sirolimus and low-dose cyclosporine in renal transplant recipients is associated with "excellent" long-term patient and graft survival and a low acute rejection rate, according to researchers.

Kidney transplant recipients aged 65 years and older have a three-year graft survival rate similar to that of younger patients, but their three-year mortality was higher than those aged younger than 65.

Longer duration of oral valganciclovir prophylaxis against cytomegalovirus (CMV) in high-risk renal transplant patients significantly reduces the incidence of CMV disease one year post-transplant, new findings suggest.