Transplantation News

Pediatric patients who received care at for-profit dialysis facilities experienced significantly longer time for placement on the waitlist and receipt of a kidney transplant compared with those who received care at a nonprofit facility.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance grilled leaders of the United Network for Organ Sharing during a recent congressional hearing on poor management of the nation’s organ supply.

Among pediatric patients who received a kidney-only transplantation, high tacrolimus intrapatient variability significantly correlated with de novo donor-specific antibody formation.

Among patients with primary hyperoxaluria type 1, kidney function may not influence the liver uptake of lumasiran treatment, according to data published in American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations.

Among white women, pregnancies after donating a kidney pose similar complications to those experienced by the general population; although, a low increase in risk is observed.

Racial and ethnic disparities in kidney replacement therapies were most pronounced among patients aged 22 to 44 years who are either transplant recipients or on home dialysis, according to data in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Mortality among kidney transplant patients with COVID-19 and those on dialysis with COVID-19 was similar during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Europe.

Patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease have a preferable cardiac profile before transplantation and better survival and major adverse cardiovascular event-free survival rates vs. patients with other kidney diseases.

Expanding access to split liver transplants and adopting a “split first” policy on donor livers will significantly reduce mortality on the pediatric waitlist, noted a presenter at the American Transplant Congress 2022.