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Living kidney donors with discordant kidney function measures had lower eGFR after donation and a higher risk for eGFR counts below 45 mL/min/1.73 m2, researchers found.

Living kidney donors in Canada were mostly satisfied with long-term care and follow-up but expressed the need for specialist care when new issues arose and more information about outcomes and lifestyle, according to survey results.

SAN DIEGO — Racial disparities in preemptive living donor kidney transplantation access have persisted in the United States during the last 2 decades, according to researchers.

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

The new United Network for Organ Sharing liver allocation policy has resulted in a significant increase in the number and cost of liver imports, with greater costs incurred by low-income states and underserved areas, according to analysis.

In this video, Tania Jain, MBBS, director of the Immune Effector Cell Therapy Program and associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University, highlights unmet needs in myeloproliferate neoplasms care and management.

Pretreatment with budesonide did not significantly influence engraftment among patients with ulcerative colitis who underwent fecal microbiota transplantation, with researchers reporting that clinical response appeared to be donor-dependent.

Storing donor lungs in a controlled hypothermic storage device with a total ischemic time of more than 15 hours “appears to be safe” in adult recipients, according to results published in Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation.

An integrated deceased donor and kidney transplant service approach to care may play a key role in maximizing the use of deceased donor kidneys, according to results of a published study.

Donor nephrectomy in living kidney donors aged 70 years or older is safe and does not significantly impact eGFR or the risk of end-stage renal disease, recently published data show.