High KDPI Kidneys Still Underused
“Pressures, such as outcomes reporting and perceived inadequate risk adjustment, disincentivize transplant programs from using high KDPI kidneys,” investigator says.
“Pressures, such as outcomes reporting and perceived inadequate risk adjustment, disincentivize transplant programs from using high KDPI kidneys,” investigator says.
Although slow graft function does not necessitate dialysis, it is associated with a higher risk for graft failure and patient death, according to investigators.
Providers’ response to patient non-adherence was partly informed by their experiences working with patients, the training they received, and their own implicit biases, according to investigators.
Kidney transplant recipients with bacteremia may be more likely to require outpatient parenteral antibiotics if the infection is caused by bacteria that produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases.
Patients aged 65 years or older had significant 84% lower odds of being waitlisted for a first transplant compared with patients aged 18 to 64 years.
Short-term outcomes appear acceptable for transplanting COVID-19-positive donor kidneys.
A risk prediction model used 3 simple measures of graft function for better risk assessment after transplantation.
The kidney stone rate appears to have risen among kidney transplant recipients over the past 2 decades, according to investigators.
Monitoring and maintaining a higher tacrolimus trough level in the first month after transplantation is essential to avoid acute rejection, according to investigators.
Following their research using pigs and brain-dead deceased donors, investigators with Keck Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles are gearing up to transplant a bladder into a living patient for the first time in history.