Kidney Transplant

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.

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would slow efforts by commercial health plans from moving patients with end-stage kidney disease to Medicare now has 30 co-sponsors, according to a press release.

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 — 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 — Age and racial gaps exist when using telehealth for evaluating candidates for kidney transplant, according to data presented at the American Transplant Congress here.

Receiving a kidney transplant from a deceased donor who had dialysis before donation may be tied to a higher rate of delayed graft function, according to a published study.

Editor’s note: Healio | Nephrology News & Issues interviewed John Friedewald, MD, and Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, MD, about their roles as conference chairpersons and highlights of the agenda for the American Transplant Congress.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Megalocytic interstitial nephritis may trigger issues with coexisting renal transplant rejection, and providers should focus on immunosuppressive regimen and infection control, according to presented data.