Kidney Transplants From Related Living Donors More Likely to Fail
In adjusted analyses, related donor-recipient pairs had a significant 5% increased risk for allograft failure compared with unrelated donor-recipient pairs.
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Women Have Less Access to Kidney Transplant Waitlist
Interventions may be needed to achieve gender and racial equity in access to kidney transplantation across end-stage renal disease networks in the United States.
Kidney Failure Population Hit Hard by COVID-19 Early in Pandemic
Investigators also confirmed racial disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations and overall deaths early in the pandemic among patients with ESKD.
Preemptive Therapy May Stop FSGS Recurrence in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Investigators report encouraging results from a small observational study testing the effect of preemptive therapeutic plasma exchange and rituximab in kidney transplant recipients whose primary cause of kidney failure was focal segmental glomerulosclerosis.
Low Bicarbonate in Kidney Transplant Recipients Predicts Graft Failure
Each 1 mEq/L increase in serum bicarbonate in kidney transplant recipients is associated with a 10% reduction in graft failure risk, a study found.
Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Exist in Kidney Disease Care
Lack of timely referrals to nephrologists contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in kidney disease care.
Early Immunologic Biomarker Predicts Renal Allograft Outcomes
Ratio of IL-10/TNFα produced by T1B 3 months after renal transplantation predicts clinical, subclinical rejection during first year.
SCD Kidney Transplantation vs Dialysis Ups Survival in Older Patients
Kidney transplant candidates aged 65 years or older significantly improved their survival by receiving a standard rather than an expanded criteria donor kidney or continuing on dialysis, a Belgian study showed.
Kidney Transplantation Possibly Improves Erectile Function
In a systematic review, nearly two-thirds of men with end-stage kidney disease reported some degree of erectile dysfunction prior to undergoing kidney transplantation.
Single Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine Poorly Immunogenic in SOT Recipients
At a median of 20 days after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, 17% had antibody responses to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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