Transplantation News

The Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation has launched a pilot program that would allow kidney exchanges for transplantation between the United States and Italy.

A data-driven algorithm, RejectClass, may provide a “holistic and quantitative” measurement of kidney transplant injury phenotypes and severity, according to investigators.

Compared with the Kaplan-Meier estimator, researchers found multi-state models provided a more accurate and comprehensive assessment of the life course and graft risk of older kidney transplant recipients.

Solid organ transplantation, including kidneys, using deceased donors infected with COVID-19 does not negatively impact early patient survival, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

The 5-year allograft survival of a kidney transplanted from a deceased donor infected with the hepatitis C virus is comparable to a kidney from a donor who is not infected, according to data published in JAMA Network.

Kidney transplant recipients experience immune-insufficiency during acute COVID-19, which may explain the low rates of acute rejection among these patients even with reduced immunosuppression, according to a recently published study.

Compared with kidneys from deceased donors, organs from living donors show best graft survival in pediatric patients.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and health disparities are brought to light around the United States, leaders in the transplant field are getting serious about the journey to health equity.

Several knowledge gaps remain in xenotransplantation despite the successful procedure of a porcine kidney into a brain-dead recipient, according to a presentation at the 2022 Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.

More than 2 years have passed since the discovery of the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus and for the first time, it seems the pandemic is having a diminishing effect on ordinary life.