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

You will also need a kidney transplant to prolong your life. Some people have transplant surgery before they need dialysis. This procedure is called a preemptive transplant. They will receive their ...

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

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.