Transplantation News

PHILADELPHIA — Immunologic risk assessment with a  blood-based next-generation sequencing tool may be able to predict the risk of early acute kidney rejection before transplantation, according to research presented at ASN Kidney Week.

PHILADELPHIA — Social demographics and insurance type are influential factors in efforts to increase interest in living kidney donation among patients on dialysis, researchers said at ASN Kidney Week.

PHILADELPHIA — Results from a phase 3 clinical trial show that an investigational cellular product can successfully induce tolerance in recipients of human leukocyte antigens-matched living kidney donors.

PHILADELPHIA — Kidneys from adults with a high kidney donor profile index may boost transplantation access, but a multidisciplinary method can bring positive results in groups with low deceased kidney donor transplant rates, a speaker said.

Citing overuse and high costs, CMS is defending a change in coverage for a blood test used by specialists to help determine whether a transplanted organ may be failing.

President Joe Biden signed the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement Transplantation Network Act into law, according to a statement from the National Kidney Foundation.

More than 12,000 of 21,000 infants who died in 2020 could have been considered as viable organ donors, according to data from researchers at Allegheny General Hospital.

Pancreatic islet transplantation may reduce transplant failure risk and boost long-term survival vs. insulin alone in kidney transplant recipients with type 1 diabetes, new data show.

Women with ESKD are more likely than men to face kidney transplant-related disparities, according to a recently published study conducted in the southeast U.S.

Evident racial gaps in transplant waitlist placement between Black and white patients exist, particularly among younger individuals with kidney failure, new data suggests.