Tag: Organ Transplants
HHS Plans to Reform Organ Procurement Protocols
Agency wants to strengthen national safeguards and monitoring to improve organ donation safety
Cell Therapy MDR-101 Produces Functional Immune Tolerance in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Fifteen of 20 HLA-matched living donor recipients achieved the primary end point of being immunosuppression-free for more than two years
Standard-Criteria Kidney Transplant Offers Clear Survival Benefit Over Continued Dialysis
Decrease in survival benefits with age in expanded criteria donor kidney transplant recipients, especially those with CVD
Early, Preemptive Kidney Transplant No Aid to Mortality
Rates of preemptive kidney transplants remained at ~18 percent of total kidney transplants from 2000 to 2020
Post-Kidney Transplant Adverse Outcomes Increased With BMI-BSA Obesity
Risks were significantly greater than when body mass index and body surface area were discordant
Use of Composite Allocation Score for Lung Transplant Wait List Improves Outcomes
Findings compared with both the pre-November 2017 and post-November 2017 eras
Doctors Perform First-Ever Human Bladder Transplant in U.S.
Simultaneous Liver Transplant, Sleeve Gastrectomy Beneficial
Results showed durable weight loss, resolution of diabetes and hypertension, and reduction in allograft steatosis
Kidney Transplant Rate Increasing, but Efficiency of Allocation System Low
The rate of offers per candidate represents a threefold increase compared with 2015
