Kidney & Pancreas Transplant News

• 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
• ESC 2022 New ESC Guidelines for Cutting CV Risk in Noncardiac Surgery The guidelines, which aim to reduce cardiovascular complications from noncardiac surgery, introduce new concepts and recommendations compared with the previous 2014 document.
  Medscape Medical News, September 14, 2022
• A Million Transplants: System Faces Questions Amid Milestone While the milestone is noteworthy, much work needs to be done to address the lengthy waiting list for organs, and there are other major issues.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2022
• Transplant Recipients Face Higher Risk for Severe COVID The rate of severe COVID-19 and death among solid organ transplant recipients ranges from 31% for lung transplants to 4% for heart transplants, despite vaccination and therapeutic advances.
  Medscape Medical News, September 08, 2022
• Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire There are troubling lapses in the nation's organ transplant system. Blood types mismatched, diseased organs transplanted anyway, and — most often — organs lost or damaged before they can save a life.
  KFF Health News, September 07, 2022
• Dropping Immunosuppression in COVID Didn't Up Transplant Rejection For kidney transplant recipients who have COVID-19, rates of acute rejection are low despite reducing their immunosuppressant regimens.
  Medscape Medical News, September 01, 2022
• Kidney Disease; Updated COVID Booster; and Renaming Monkeypox The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, August 24, 2022
• How Kidney Disease Plays Favorites With Sex Chronic kidney disease is more common in women, but men need kidney transplants more frequently. And kidney ailments are on the rise for everyone.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2022
• World's First HIV+ to HIV+ Heart Transplant Performed The option to transplant a heart from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient became possible 9 years ago with the HOPE Act. Now the first such transplant has been completed at Montefiore.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2022
• Texas Inmate Requests Delayed Execution for Kidney Donation Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to die by lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a Southwest Texas woman whose remains were found almost 2 years after she vanished in 2001.
  WebMD Health News, July 06, 2022
• Can a Genetic Test Help Detect Early Kidney Disease? A newly developed of a polygenic risk score for kidney disease may lead to earlier detection and could also help trigger adoption of a protective lifestyle.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2022
• Post-Transplant KC Risk in Children Points to Need for Education The increased incidence of keratinocyte carcinomas in pediatric transplant recipients is "really high, so we definitely know there's risk there," according to one of the study investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, June 30, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Post-Mohs Infections Not Increased in the Immunocompromised
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2022
• Aim to Reach 'Lofty Goal' of 80% of Dialysis Done at Home Meeting home dialysis goals for 2025 in the US will require establishing systems and policies that address barriers faced by racial and ethnic minorities, say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2022
• 'Really Low' Risks for Living Kidney Donation, Says Surgeon Complications are typically incision-related and most occur after patients go home from the hospital, meaning close follow-up after discharge is needed.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2022
• Doc's Condiment Crusade Helps Patients Kick Salt Habit New Orleans nephrologist Dr Adrian Baudy IV brews a no-salt hot sauce that packs a punch but is kind on the kidneys.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2022
• ISN 2022 FDA Rejects Bardoxolone as First Alport Syndrome Agent Alport syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes early kidney failure, continues to have no approved treatment, but advocates foresee progress in diagnosis and awareness from the failed approval attempt.
  Medscape Medical News, March 15, 2022
• Kidney Policy Increases Patient Referrals, Evaluations Implementation of the kidney allocation system led to increased patient referrals by dialysis centers and more evaluations by transplant centers. Fewer evaluated patients were waitlisted than before.
  Medscape Medical News, March 14, 2022
• No COVID Vax, No Transplant: Unfair or Good Medicine? COVID vaccinations — and some people's resistance to them — have turned what used to be routine preparation controversial.
  WebMD Health News, February 04, 2022
• Kidney From Deceased COVID Donor Safely Grafted in Recipient Sophisticated molecular testing on kidneys from deceased COVID donors may provide a step forward towards safely using these organs instead of routinely discarding them.
  Medscape Medical News, February 04, 2022