Transplantation News

The Cleveland Clinic reached an institutional milestone in 2022, with 1,050 heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lung transplants, surpassing its previous record high set in 2021, according to a press release.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Inequities in transplantation can be attributed to limited data on patients’ social determinants of health and provider bias, according to a presenter at the Cutting Edge of Transplantation Summit.

The American Kidney Fund released its 2023 State of the States: Living Donor Protection Report Card and gave the U.S. an overall grade of a C.

Using pre-transplant immunosuppression to treat kidney transplant recipients with glomerulonephritis correlates with an increased risk for developing malignancy after transplant, according to a retrospective study.

Heart-kidney transplantation relative to heart transplantation alone was associated with superior survival regardless of dialysis status and for patients with moderate kidney disease, according to a national transplant registry analysis.

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and end-stage kidney disease are less likely to be evaluated to kidney transplantation compared to peers without disabilities, according to data published in JAMA Surgery.

Merck announced the FDA accepted two supplemental new drug applications for Prevymis, also known as letermovir, and granted the application priority review, according to the press release.

Kidney transplant outcomes among undocumented immigrants in California are similar to that of U.S. residents, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

In the past 30 years, kidney failure incidence has decreased to an average of 9.1 cases per million age-related population, according to data published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Multilevel interventions, such as standardizing the evaluation process, utilizing telehealth improved access to kidney transplantation for African Americans, according to data published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.