Transplantation News

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

PHILADELPHIA — Patients with early thrombotic microangiopathy may have reduced allograft function and decreased allograft and patient survival with long-term follow-up.

PHILADELPHIA — Recurrent glomerulonephritis and long-term graft survival vary in certain patients who had a kidney transplant, data presented at the American Transplant Congress shows.

PHILADELPHIA — There are 32 proteins that could be of interest to help predict focal segmental glomerulosclerosis recurrence in patients with kidney disease, according to presented data.

PHILADELPHIA — Preemptive kidney transplant in older adults with a high kidney donor profile index pre-transplant may be linked to better patient and graft survival, data show.

PHILADELPHIA — Expansion of Medicaid via the Affordable Care Act may be tied to less likelihood of transplant waitlist removal due to illness or death, a speaker here said.

PHILADELPHIA — Older adults with end-stage kidney disease undergoing bariatric surgery may be more likely to achieve kidney transplant, according to data presented at the American Transplant Congress.

PHILADELPHIA — Black adults may have lower access to both deceased-donor kidney transplant and live donor kidney transplant vs. white adults, according to a speaker here.

PHILADELPHIA — Organizers of the American Transplant Congress announced award winners in transplantation research and achievements, including the Pioneer Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

PHILADELPHIA — Kidney allocation based on eplet matching, which uses genetics to match a kidney donor to a transplant recipient, may be feasible without worsening disparities in transplant access, according to a speaker here.