Kidney Transplant
Aug 05, 2022
Younger Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than non-Hispanic Whites to undergo transplant or home hemodialysis treatment after kidney replacement treatment. Among patients with  kidney failu...
Jul 11, 2022
When encountering racism, Black veterans with chronic kidney disease described bottling up their feelings, which sometimes led to maladaptive behaviors. Several factors have been associated wit...
May 23, 2022
Kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) exhibit unique elevated inflammation, impaired immune function, and increased cardiovascular risk. Although exercise reduces cardiovascular risk, there is limited r...
May 16, 2022
A population pharmacokinetic (popPK) model may be used to improve tacrolimus dosing and minimize under- and overexposure in kidney transplant recipients. It is unknown how body composition parameters ...
May 09, 2022
To investigate the associations of IMPDH and UGT1A9 polymorphisms with rejection in kidney transplant recipients taking mycophenolic acid (MPA).PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, Wanfan...
Apr 25, 2022
In kidney transplantation, the relative contribution of various donor, procedure and recipient-related factors on clinical outcomes is unknown. Previous paired studies have largely focused on examinin...
Apr 11, 2022
Pregnancy-related acute kidney injury (AKI) is a public health problem and remains an important cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The incidence of pregnancy-related AKI has increase...
Mar 28, 2022
The ability of kidney transplant candidates to travel outside of their usual place of care varies by sociodemographic factors, potentially exacerbating disparities in access. We used Transplant Referr...
Mar 21, 2022
Although the prevalence of osteoporosis and fractures in the first 6-12Â months post-renal transplantation is high, little is known about the utility of bone mineral density (BMD) to predict fractures...
Mar 14, 2022
Despite developing strategies for antiviral treatment, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains one of the most common challenges in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs). The evaluation of CMV viral loa...
Mar 07, 2022
Allograft rejection remains a significant challenge in managing post-transplant recipients despite the improvement in immunologic risk assessment and immunosuppressive therapy. Published literature in...
Feb 28, 2022
Epidemiological data indicate that metabolic disturbances and increased cardiovascular risk in renal transplant patients are a significant and common problem. Therefore, it is important to search for ...
Feb 28, 2022
Primary hyperoxalurias (PHs) are rare autosomal recessive diseases of the glyoxylate metabolism; PH1 is caused by mutations in the AGXT gene, PH2 in GRHPR and PH3 in HOGA1.Here we report the first lar...
Feb 21, 2022
The burden of sexually transmitted infections (STI) among solid-organ transplant recipients is currently unknown. We studied the risk of STIs among kidney transplant recipients compared with the gener...
Feb 21, 2022
Centers discard high kidney donor profile index (KDPI) allografts, potentially related to delayed graft function and prolonged hospital use by kidney transplant recipients (KTR). We sought to determin...
Feb 14, 2022
The primary aim of this study was to in depth examine if the histological result of a transplanted kidney biopsy can predict the prognosis for the graft and the patient. The secondary aim was to exten...
Feb 14, 2022
Kidney transplantation has evolved over the years from transplants between identically matched donors and recipients to successfully transplanting allografts across virtually any degree of donor-recip...
Feb 07, 2022
BKV and BKVN are common in pediatric kidney transplant, but there is limited data on treatment approaches. Our objective was to study the prevalence of BKV and BKVN utilizing only plasma qPCR and repo...
Jan 31, 2022
Kidney transplant centers set organ offer filters enabling all candidates at their center to be bypassed during allocation of deceased donor kidneys from the UNOS Organ Center. These filters aim to in...
Jan 24, 2022
The renal elimination of uremic toxins (UTs) can be potentially altered by drugs that inhibit organic anion transporters 1/3 (OAT1/OAT3). The objective of the present study was to determine whether th...
