Transplantation News

SAN DIEGO — Racial disparities in preemptive living donor kidney transplantation access have persisted in the United States during the last 2 decades, according to researchers.

SAN DIEGO — Kidney transplant recipients who experience more bodily pain have less involvement and ability to participate in social activities than kidney transplant patients who report less pain, according to data at ASN Kidney Week.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Darcy K. Weidemann, MD, MHS, FAAP, a pediatric nephrologist at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, discusses her top concerns in the specialty: access and workforce.

SAN DIEGO — Among African American and white adults with obesity who received kidneys from the same deceased donor, graft failure rates were higher — but so were survival rates — for African American recipients, according to study data.

SAN DIEGO — Nearly 75% of kidney transplant recipients at a U.S. hospital who survived at least 1 year did not see a primary care provider in the years following the procedure, according to study data.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Jeffrey Giullian, MD, MBA, FASN, chief medical officer of DaVita, discusses three pressing regulatory issues for nephrology stakeholders.

For organ transplant recipients with HIV, kidneys from deceased donors with HIV are noninferior those from donors without HIV, according to data from a U.S. multicenter observational trial.

In an editorial published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, nephrologists Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, and Tod Ibrahim, MD, detailed problems the specialty may face in the coming decade.

When counseling women with kidney disease about pregnancy, nephrologists and women’s health providers must emphasize intentionality.