Kidney graft survival at 15 years after transplantation did not differ between selected patients treated with and without maintenance corticosteroids, according to recent study findings.
Probability of any kidney transplant lower in association with Black race, older age, lower income, more comorbidities, greater religiosity
Perioperative transfusion of blood products was not associated with worse clinical outcomes or allosensitization in a study of selected kidney transplant recipients.
Telehealth platform enabled maintenance of wait-list evaluation volume in large kidney transplant program during COVID-19 pandemic
Removing the race coefficient from the CKD-EPI equation could avert a potential systematic delay in kidney transplant eligibility of a median 1.9 years for Black patients, according to investigators.
At one year after transplant, kidney allograft function, rejection rates similar regardless of donor hepatitis C status
Adding donor histology did not significantly improve prediction of long-term allograft failure in recipients at French, Belgian centers
Transplantation of kidneys from donors infected with hepatitis C virus into uninfected recipients does not increase rates of delayed graft function and probability of rejection, a study found.
Overall incidence of prostate cancer decreased between 2003 and 2017.
Although previous studies have observed that Black patients are less likely to receive kidney transplants than White patients, the points of inequity in the transplant process were unclear.
