Transplant

SAN DIEGO — Kidney transplant recipients who experience more bodily pain have less involvement and ability to participate in social activities than kidney transplant patients who report less pain, according to data at ASN Kidney Week.

For organ transplant recipients with HIV, kidneys from deceased donors with HIV are noninferior those from donors without HIV, according to data from a U.S. multicenter observational trial.

Immunotherapy treatment may make liver transplant viable for patients with later-stage hepatocellular carcinoma provided they adhere to a 3-month waiting period, according to study results.

Adults with lower cognitive scores before kidney transplantation had similar kidney function, hospital length of stay and readmission and death rates as those with higher pre-transplant scores, according to study data.

Following propensity matching, lung transplant recipients aged 70 years or older had similar 5-year survival to recipients aged younger than 70 years, according to results published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.

A biotechnology company developing compatible organs for transplantation to humans, eGenesis, secured financial backing that could eventually lead to a human trial of its bioengineered pig kidney, according to a company press release.

The American Society of Transplantation has asked CMS to delay up to a year the launch of a 6-year demonstration aimed at increasing kidney transplants and improvements in graft survival. 

After protests from transplant patient advocacy groups and legislators for more than a year, CMS has agreed to drop a proposal that would have limited access to a noninvasive test used to determine the health of a transplanted organ.

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