Race may play a role in the waitlist experience, allograft quality and transplant outcomes of patients with autosomal ...

Unintentional weight loss prior to kidney transplant evaluation may be linked to lower listing odds and higher waitlist mortality for frail patients with obesity, a study found.“Almost all transplant ...

First, our data only included patients with incident kidney failure who initiated maintenance dialysis or received a preemptive transplant, and it may have excluded patients who received ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...

Surgeons performed preemptive RAKT in 52% of cases ... Although the study did not compare RAKT with open kidney transplantation, Dr Territo’s team cited a 2021 report in the Journal of Urology ...

Key TakeawaysKidney transplant recipients who’ve never been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus but receive organs from a donor ...