Kidney & Pancreas Transplant News

• Kidney Stones on the Rise: Where Are the Specialists? Kidney stones are increasing among new populations, while nephrology fellowships are going unfilled.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• Better Than Dialysis? Artificial Kidney Could Be the Future Researchers have developed an implantable bioartificial kidney that could help patients with end-stage kidney disease lead a better quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, August 15, 2023
• 'A Lot More to Do' for Longevity of Kids Who Receive Organs Researchers are seeking ways to keep pediatric transplant recipients healthier in adulthood, but long-term data are limited.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2023
• No Time to Spare "People of color face greater barriers from the moment their organ fails."
  WebMD Health News, June 15, 2023
• Race-Free eGFR Validated for Kidney Transplant Patients Researchers have developed and validated a new race-free, creatinine-based equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate specifically designed for kidney transplant recipients.
  Medscape Medical News, June 06, 2023
• Kidneys From COVID-19-Positive Donors Safe for Transplant Early concerns of disease transmission slowed the use of kidneys from donors with resolved or active COVID-19; however, use has increased with evidence of safety.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2023
• Simplifying Diagnosis of Rejection After Kidney Transplant User-friendly ChatGPT-like system allows for accurate diagnoses of rejection, using often complicated Banff classification criteria 'with just a few clicks.' Observers hail the work as 'innovative.'
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2023
• Heart Disease Screening Showed No Kidney Transplant Benefit Screening for coronary heart disease in asymptomatic, low-risk people listed for a kidney transplant often happens in US practice, but evidence showing it helps is lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2023
• Lose the Sodium Bicarb? Fewer Pills Needed for Kidney Transplant Sodium bicarbonate to correct metabolic acidosis in kidney transplant is unnecessary and elimination could reduce pill count. The new finding 'fills an important information gap,' say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, February 16, 2023
• Should Kidney Transplants Be Offered to Undocumented Immigrants? 'All in all, [recent] studies, along with ours, call into question the long-held belief that undocumented immigrants have worse [kidney] transplant outcomes,' say the authors of a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2023
• KidneyWeek 2022 Balanced Crystalloid Fluids Surpass Saline for Kidney Transplant Low chloride, balanced-crystalloid IV fluid led to significantly fewer delayed graft function events compared with saline in a multicenter trial of patients getting a deceased-donor kidney transplant.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2022
• Surgeons Advise More Pancreas Transplants to Treat Diabetes In a 'mini review,' a group of surgeons and professionals involved in pancreas/kidney transplants urge greater consideration of the procedure for people with diabetes who meet the criteria.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• New Economic Study: Dapagliflozin Cost-Effective in Kidney Disease Dapagliflozin is cost-effective for chronic kidney disease compared with standard of care, in the UK, Germany, and Spain, despite the fact that the drug has high acquisition costs, finds a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2022
• Deemed Consent for Deceased Organ Donation: Yea or Nay? Two Canadian provinces passed “deemed consent” laws that require individuals to opt out of deceased organ donation, provoking mixed reactions and concerns.
  Medscape Medical News, November 01, 2022
• ACG 2022 Terlipressin Decreases Need for RRT in Liver Transplant Patients The drug restores renal blood flow and reverses hepatorenal syndrome type 1 in some patients.
  MDedge News, October 31, 2022
• Daprodustat Gets FDA AdComm Nod for Adults With CKD on Dialysis For the first time, a HIF-PHI-class agent won backing from an FDA advisory committee for treating anemia, but the panel voted against daprodustat for adults with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2022
• Domino Donation: A Kidney to Save Two Lives Instead of One What would've taken Rachael untold years was solved in mere months when her brother, Jonah, volunteered to enter the kidney paired donation donor pool.
  WebMD Health News, October 19, 2022
• Islet Transplants in Type 1 Diabetes Durable Up to 8 Years Long-term insulin independence and safety seen with islet-cell transplant alone or following a kidney transplant in patients with severe hypoglycemia at baseline.
  Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2022
• Post-Transplant Diabetes Can Be Predicted in Kidney Recipients Combined family history and early postoperative plasma glucose, but not glycated albumin, predicted post-transplant diabetes mellitus in kidney recipients in a new study.
  First Look, September 27, 2022
• Nixing 'Race Adjustment' May Up Kidney Transplant Odds for Black Patients Creatinine-based eGFR is best at reducing racial differences in access to kidney transplants, show new data. But nixing race-based adjustment of eGFR may have other unintended consequences, say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, September 23, 2022