Transplant Surgery

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.

Among a select group of women with uterine factor infertility, uterus transplant was feasible and associated with a high live birth rate after successful graft survival, data from a case series show.

Adults with obesity and end-stage renal disease may qualify as kidney transplant candidates, according to a joint study between a bariatric and transplant surgery team.

As two Black physicians, we have spent most of our careers either in labs, operating rooms or classrooms trying to improve health care and save lives through science and education.

Simulations revealed that using deceased donor kidneys in transplant chains could increase the number of transplants by 290 a year, according to data published in the Kidney International Reports.

A speculated alternative to the Kidney Allocation System is continuous kidney allocation, which can be designed by simulation optimization, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

In April, I became a living kidney donor.

Increased lung bacteria may predict chronic rejection and death in healthy adults who undergo lung transplantation, according to data published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Transplant center was associated with survival benefit of heart transplant recipients, according to findings published in JAMA.