Kidney & Pancreas Transplant News

• KidneyWeek 2022 Balanced Crystalloid Fluids Surpass Saline for Kidney Transplant Low chloride, balanced-crystalloid IV fluid led to significantly fewer delayed graft function events compared with saline in a multicenter trial of patients getting a deceased-donor kidney transplant.
  Medscape Medical News, November 16, 2022
• Surgeons Advise More Pancreas Transplants to Treat Diabetes In a 'mini review,' a group of surgeons and professionals involved in pancreas/kidney transplants urge greater consideration of the procedure for people with diabetes who meet the criteria.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2022
• New Economic Study: Dapagliflozin Cost-Effective in Kidney Disease Dapagliflozin is cost-effective for chronic kidney disease compared with standard of care, in the UK, Germany, and Spain, despite the fact that the drug has high acquisition costs, finds a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, November 09, 2022
• Deemed Consent for Deceased Organ Donation: Yea or Nay? Two Canadian provinces passed “deemed consent” laws that require individuals to opt out of deceased organ donation, provoking mixed reactions and concerns.
  Medscape Medical News, November 01, 2022
• ACG 2022 Terlipressin Decreases Need for RRT in Liver Transplant Patients The drug restores renal blood flow and reverses hepatorenal syndrome type 1 in some patients.
  MDedge News, October 31, 2022
• Daprodustat Gets FDA AdComm Nod for Adults With CKD on Dialysis For the first time, a HIF-PHI-class agent won backing from an FDA advisory committee for treating anemia, but the panel voted against daprodustat for adults with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis.
  Medscape Medical News, October 27, 2022
• Domino Donation: A Kidney to Save Two Lives Instead of One What would've taken Rachael untold years was solved in mere months when her brother, Jonah, volunteered to enter the kidney paired donation donor pool.
  WebMD Health News, October 19, 2022
• Islet Transplants in Type 1 Diabetes Durable Up to 8 Years Long-term insulin independence and safety seen with islet-cell transplant alone or following a kidney transplant in patients with severe hypoglycemia at baseline.
  Medscape Medical News, October 18, 2022
• Post-Transplant Diabetes Can Be Predicted in Kidney Recipients Combined family history and early postoperative plasma glucose, but not glycated albumin, predicted post-transplant diabetes mellitus in kidney recipients in a new study.
  First Look, September 27, 2022
• Nixing 'Race Adjustment' May Up Kidney Transplant Odds for Black Patients Creatinine-based eGFR is best at reducing racial differences in access to kidney transplants, show new data. But nixing race-based adjustment of eGFR may have other unintended consequences, say editorialists.
  Medscape Medical News, September 23, 2022
• ESC 2022 New ESC Guidelines for Cutting CV Risk in Noncardiac Surgery The guidelines, which aim to reduce cardiovascular complications from noncardiac surgery, introduce new concepts and recommendations compared with the previous 2014 document.
  Medscape Medical News, September 14, 2022
• A Million Transplants: System Faces Questions Amid Milestone While the milestone is noteworthy, much work needs to be done to address the lengthy waiting list for organs, and there are other major issues.
  WebMD Health News, September 13, 2022
• Transplant Recipients Face Higher Risk for Severe COVID The rate of severe COVID-19 and death among solid organ transplant recipients ranges from 31% for lung transplants to 4% for heart transplants, despite vaccination and therapeutic advances.
  Medscape Medical News, September 08, 2022
• Organ Transplants Are Up, but the Agency in Charge Is Under Fire There are troubling lapses in the nation's organ transplant system. Blood types mismatched, diseased organs transplanted anyway, and — most often — organs lost or damaged before they can save a life.
  Kaiser Health News, September 07, 2022
• Dropping Immunosuppression in COVID Didn't Up Transplant Rejection For kidney transplant recipients who have COVID-19, rates of acute rejection are low despite reducing their immunosuppressant regimens.
  Medscape Medical News, September 01, 2022
• Kidney Disease; Updated COVID Booster; and Renaming Monkeypox The top 3 things you should know to start your day.
  3 Things to Know Today, August 24, 2022
• How Kidney Disease Plays Favorites With Sex Chronic kidney disease is more common in women, but men need kidney transplants more frequently. And kidney ailments are on the rise for everyone.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2022
• 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