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.
In adjusted analyses, related donor-recipient pairs had a significant 5% increased risk for allograft failure compared with unrelated donor-recipient pairs.
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.
Investigators also confirmed racial disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations and overall deaths early in the pandemic among patients with ESKD.
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.
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.
Lack of timely referrals to nephrologists contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in kidney disease care.
Ratio of IL-10/TNFα produced by T1B 3 months after renal transplantation predicts clinical, subclinical rejection during first year.
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.
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.
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.