Tag: Organ Transplants
Post-Transplant Tx Reduces Wait for Kidney in Hep C+ Patients
Delaying treatment until after transplant doesn't adversely impact kidney allograft or survival
Liver-Kidney Recipients Have Donor-Specific Hypo-Responses
Unique characteristics ID'd in peripheral blood cells of simultaneous liver-kidney transplant recipients
Similar Outcomes for Transplant With Overdose-Death Donors
Outcomes similar for ODD recipients, recipients of organs from trauma-death, medical-death donors
Many Providers Unaware of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplants
Nurse managers, white providers more likely to be unaware of national racial disparity in waitlisting
Large Drop Seen in Infection-Related Post-Transplant Deaths
Findings among adults undergoing kidney transplantation in Finland 1990 to 2010
Trained Navigators Help Patients With Kidney Transplant Process
However, the impact in waitlisting was only seen for disadvantaged after 500 days of follow-up
Prophylaxis Can Prevent HCV Infection in Kidney Recipients
With direct-acting antivirals, no adverse events seen when kidneys came from HCV-infected donors
Alternatives to Whole Liver Transplants Feasible for Children
Alternatives helped to improve outcomes 2002 to 2015, indicating new ways to increase organ supply
Kidney Injury Common After Non-Kidney Transplants in Children
High risk of AKI in first year after non-kidney solid organ transplant; in turn, increases CKD risk
Racial/Ethnic Disparities Up for Live Donor Kidney Transplant
Compared to 1995 to 1999, increase in racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of LDKT in 2010 to 2014
