Transplantation News

Restoring pre-transplant waiting time for deceased-donor kidney recipients with allograft failure within 1 year of transplant may benefit the kidney waitlist through decrease in proportion of deceased-donor kidneys discarded.

Black patients categorized as non-Black in GFR estimation were waitlisted earlier, but time to kidney failure with replacement therapy did not change, according to a retrospective cohort study in American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Researchers comparing patients on dialysis with and those without prostate cancer found the cancer increased risk for mortality and reduced the likelihood of transplant, even though transplantation improved survival by 80% for all patients.

The CMS Molecular Diagnostics Program has issued a local coverage determination for use of a needle-free urine test by NephroSant that detects allograft rejection after kidney transplantation, according to a company press release.

Natera Inc. has launched the latest version of its test for allograft rejection following kidney transplantation, which now provides the quantity of donor-derived cell-free DNA in addition to the donor-derived cell-free DNA fraction alone.

Older men with a skeletal mass index threshold below 42 cm2 per m2 experienced more hospitalizations with longer stays in the year following kidney transplantation than those who had a higher preoperative skeletal mass index.

A multinational study illuminates the global impact of COVID-19 on transplantation, with an observed 31% drop in the number of solid organ transplants performed during the first wave of the pandemic compared with the previous year.

For children and adolescents initiating dialysis, lupus nephritis conferred a higher hospitalization risk, as well as a lower likelihood of transplantation, compared with other glomerular causes of end-stage kidney disease.

Solid organ transplant recipients, including liver transplant recipients, are likely at an increased risk for severe COVID-19, therefore researchers recommended priority vaccination status for patients’ pre-transplantation.

Compared with a group of matched controls, living kidney donors in South Korea had an increased risk for employment loss within 2 years following donation and, in the longer term, were more likely to experience worsening economic status.