Kidney & Pancreas Transplant News

• World's First HIV+ to HIV+ Heart Transplant Performed The option to transplant a heart from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient became possible 9 years ago with the HOPE Act. Now the first such transplant has been completed at Montefiore.
  Medscape Medical News, July 28, 2022
• Texas Inmate Requests Delayed Execution for Kidney Donation Ramiro Gonzales, 39, is set to die by lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a Southwest Texas woman whose remains were found almost 2 years after she vanished in 2001.
  WebMD Health News, July 06, 2022
• Can a Genetic Test Help Detect Early Kidney Disease? A newly developed of a polygenic risk score for kidney disease may lead to earlier detection and could also help trigger adoption of a protective lifestyle.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2022
• Post-Transplant KC Risk in Children Points to Need for Education The increased incidence of keratinocyte carcinomas in pediatric transplant recipients is "really high, so we definitely know there's risk there," according to one of the study investigators.
  Medscape Medical News, June 30, 2022
• Technique Eliminates Need for Prolonged Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplants Doctors at Stanford University School of Medicine in California say they have developed a way to transplant kidneys without the need for long-term immunosuppression.
  Reuters Health Information, June 15, 2022
• Kids With Solid-Organ Transplants Also at Risk for Keratinocyte Carcinoma Children who have received a solid organ transplant are at increased risk of keratinocyte carcinoma, including squamous- and basal-cell carcinoma, new research from Canada indicates.
  Reuters Health Information, June 10, 2022
• ACMS 2022 Post-Mohs Infections Not Increased in the Immunocompromised
  Medscape Medical News, June 03, 2022
• Aim to Reach 'Lofty Goal' of 80% of Dialysis Done at Home Meeting home dialysis goals for 2025 in the US will require establishing systems and policies that address barriers faced by racial and ethnic minorities, say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2022
• US Allows More Baby Formula Imports to Fight Shortage 'The FDA expects measures and steps it's taking with infant formula manufacturers will mean more and more supply is on the way or on store shelves moving forward,' said FDA commissioner Robert Califf.
  Associated Press, May 17, 2022
• HBCU Medical Schools to Tackle Organ Transplant Disparities The collaboration follows a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report that found significant disparities in the nation's organ transplant system.
  Associated Press, May 05, 2022
• Support for Prioritizing Kidney Transplant Patients for COVID Boosters Among kidney-transplant recipients, two doses of an mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine will lower the risk for infection, although perhaps not as much compared with the general population, according to a study from the Czech Republic.
  Reuters Health Information, May 02, 2022
• 'Really Low' Risks for Living Kidney Donation, Says Surgeon Complications are typically incision-related and most occur after patients go home from the hospital, meaning close follow-up after discharge is needed.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2022
• Doc's Condiment Crusade Helps Patients Kick Salt Habit New Orleans nephrologist Dr Adrian Baudy IV brews a no-salt hot sauce that packs a punch but is kind on the kidneys.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 2022
• AstraZeneca Drug Less Protective Versus Omicron in Transplant Patients The AstraZeneca antibody shots given to prevent COVID-19 in high-risk children and adults with weakened immune systems do not adequately protect organ transplant recipients from the Omicron variant, researchers found.
  Reuters Health Information, March 21, 2022
• ISN 2022 FDA Rejects Bardoxolone as First Alport Syndrome Agent Alport syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes early kidney failure, continues to have no approved treatment, but advocates foresee progress in diagnosis and awareness from the failed approval attempt.
  Medscape Medical News, March 15, 2022
• Kidney Policy Increases Patient Referrals, Evaluations Implementation of the kidney allocation system led to increased patient referrals by dialysis centers and more evaluations by transplant centers. Fewer evaluated patients were waitlisted than before.
  Medscape Medical News, March 14, 2022
• No COVID Vax, No Transplant: Unfair or Good Medicine? COVID vaccinations — and some people's resistance to them — have turned what used to be routine preparation controversial.
  WebMD Health News, February 04, 2022
• Kidney From Deceased COVID Donor Safely Grafted in Recipient Sophisticated molecular testing on kidneys from deceased COVID donors may provide a step forward towards safely using these organs instead of routinely discarding them.
  Medscape Medical News, February 04, 2022
• Cancer, Infection Risk Higher in Tx Patients Than Rejection Cancer, infection, and heart disease emerge as key risk factors for death with graft function in kidney transplant patients while organ rejection accounts for far fewer graft losses.
  Medscape Medical News, January 27, 2022
• Kidneys From Donors With AKI Often Unnecessarily Discarded Although acute kidney injury donor kidney procurement is on the rise, many AKI kidneys are discarded, despite evidence of success; researchers urge changes to the kidney donor scoring system.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2022