Transplantation News

Kidney transplants in school-aged children increased during the summer break compared with non-summer break weeks, according to published data.

Immigrant and racialized status may affect readiness to pursue living donor kidney transplant, according to results of a study.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network has removed two variables – whether a potential organ donor is African American or Black or has tested positive for the hepatitis C virus – from methods to evaluate deceased donor organs.

Episodic and verbal declarative memory normalized in adults on in-center hemodialysis after receiving a kidney transplant, according to study results. Other cognitive impairments also showed improvement.

PHILADELPHIA — Using normothermic regional perfusion to maintain donatable organs after circulatory death may not impact public perceptions of organ donation, data show.

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine have performed the first kidney transplant in the U.S. in which the patient was awake during procedure, according to a press release from the hospital.

PHILADELPHIA — In patients with post-transplant collapsing glomerulopathy, a similar portion of donors had one or two apolipoprotein L1 kidney risk variants, whereas few had none.

PHILADELPHIA — The course of eGFR decline after kidney transplant may be worse for patients who gain weight after surgery, data from the American Transplant Congress show.

PHILADELPHIA — Innovation and collaboration in nephrology may help combat organ scarcity and improve care, former HHS Secretary, the Honorable Alex M. Azar II, said at the American Transplant Congress.

Hypertension and albuminuria risks may not significantly differ between living kidney donors and nondonors with the same follow-up schedule, according to published data.