Transplantation News

The VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center ranked 11th and was among the busiest transplant centers in the United States in 2019, performing 304 kidney transplants.

While not without flaws, opt-out laws that presume citizens will donate organs have expanded the donor pool in Europe and provide lessons for the United States, said a speaker at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

Among patients awaiting a renal transplant, Black and white women experienced unequal access to wait lists compared with white men, according to presented data.

Organ donation and kidney transplants have made an “amazing” recovery from the worst days of the pandemic, a speaker said here, with more than 33,000 kidney transplants performed in 2020.

The National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative has released a commentary on the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes clinical practice guideline for evaluating and managing kidney transplant candidates.

Joining previous investors, DaVita Venture Group led an investment round to fund NephroSant’s needle-free urine test that detects allograft rejection following kidney transplantation. The Series A funding round closed at $16 million.

Patients who had delayed kidney graft function after a simultaneous heart and kidney transplant had worse outcomes than those who did not have delayed kidney graft function, according to published findings.

A study that evaluated the impact of organ procurement timing after donor brain death found longer delays were not associated with “inferior” allograft outcomes following kidney transplantation.

Legislation that would make living organ donation easier has been introduced in both chambers of Congress with bipartisan sponsorship, according to a press release.

Compared with patients on hemodialysis, kidney transplant recipients were more likely to follow health care provider recommendations on pharmacotherapy and lifestyle behaviors, according to this study.