Xenotransplantation

A woman from Alabama is the latest to receive a gene-edited pig kidney in a recent xenotransplantation at NYU Langone Health, according to a university press briefing.

I first heard the expression “moonshot” describing the goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health executive order, which was signed in 2019 by then-President Donald J. Trump.

In an editorial published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, nephrologists Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, and Tod Ibrahim, MD, detailed problems the specialty may face in the coming decade.

To stay alive, Americans with kidney failure have made the common choice to be tethered to a machine three times a week in an outpatient dialysis clinic for several hours at a time.

A genetically engineered pig kidney is functioning well more than a month after being transplanted into the body of a man declared dead by neurologic criteria, doctors announced.

Heart transplantation is considered standard therapy for patients with end-stage HF, and survival and the availability of donor hearts have continued to improve over time.

A large trial of older adults found a reduction in cardiovascular events after vitamin D supplementation compared with placebo, a result that was inconsistent with previous studies, according to researchers.

A combination of complex causes likely contributed to the death of the man who received the world’s first genetically modified pig heart transplant in 2022, including the presence of a latent porcine virus, researchers reported.

For this month’s Infectious Disease News cover story, we touched base with experts in transplant medicine and transplant infectious diseases to discuss recent challenges brought on by the pandemic and the country’s organ shortage crisis.

Healio and Cardiology Today have compiled a list of the most-read news of 2022 in cardiology.