Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Journal Articles

• Liver Allocation Policy Change Impact on Donor Utilization How have the recent changes to the U.S. liver allocation policy impacted donor utilization?
  American Journal of Transplantation, August 03, 2022
• Patient, Caregiver Perspectives on BP in Children With CKD A survey of children with CKD and their caregivers provides insights into their perspectives regarding blood pressure management.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, July 29, 2022
• Impact of CDC's Opioid Guideline at Surgical Discharge Did the 2016 CDC opioid guideline reduce discharge opioid prescriptions for surgical patients? This study investigated the guideline's impact on provider-level opioid prescribing practice.
  BMC Anesthesiology, July 07, 2022
• Cystatin C Kidney Functional Reserve Predicts CKD Outcomes What could cystatin c kidney functional reserve measurements tell us about patient outcomes in CKD?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, July 04, 2022
• On-Treatment Blood Pressure and Long-Term Outcomes in CKD Does intensive blood pressure control in CKD patients lead to better outcomes?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, June 20, 2022
• Reported Cases of End-Stage Kidney Disease--US, 2000-2019 This report reveals a significant increase in end-stage kidney disease in the general U.S. population over the period 2000-2019.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, June 10, 2022
• Increased Ischemic Heart Disease Risk After Kidney Donation Are kidney donors at a greater risk for developing ischemic heart disease? A new study looks at the possible long-term risks.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, June 08, 2022
• Cholesterol and CVD Events in Kidney Transplant Recipients Learn more about the potential association between remnant cholesterol and cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality outcomes among individuals who had a kidney transplant.
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 18, 2022
• Optimal Patient Selection for Heart-Kidney Transplant A decision-analytic model identifies the costs and benefits of simultaneous heart-kidney transplant compared with single-organ transplant with a safety net strategy.
  American Journal of Transplantation, May 10, 2022
• A Third Dose of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Transplant Recipients A new study finds that a third SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dose may help improve protection against variants of concern among some solid organ transplant recipients.
  American Journal of Transplantation, April 26, 2022
• Insufficient COVID-19 Vaccine Response in Kidney Transplants A new study finds that the two-dose mRNA vaccination may not sufficiently protect kidney transplant recipients against COVID-19.
  American Journal of Transplantation, April 06, 2022
• Impact of Obesity in Kidney Transplantation In what ways might obesity impact kidney transplant outcomes?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, April 05, 2022
• Serum Hb and Risk of Renal Function Decline in Early DKD What could serum hemoglobin concentrations tell us about the potential risk of diabetic kidney disease progression?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, March 22, 2022
• CKD, Chronic Heart Failure, and CKD Progression A new review examines the question of whether CKD can lead to chronic heart failure, and in turn, whether worsening chronic heart failure could lead to CKD progression.
  Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, March 03, 2022
• West Nile Virus Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation Due to the potential for West Nile virus transmission through solid organ transplantation, should routine donor screening be considered?
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, February 23, 2022
• Update on Gout Management: What Is Old and What Is New Get up-to-date on the most recent advances in the management of gout.
  Current Opinion in Rheumatology, February 16, 2022
• Deceased Donor Kidney Quality Trends and Transplant Outcomes Has the lower quality of deceased donor kidneys seen in recent years negatively impacted kidney transplant outcomes?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, February 01, 2022
• TRAPS-Related AA Amyloidosis This paper describes the frequency and prognosis of AA amyloidosis in TNF receptor-1-associated periodic syndrome. What is known about this potentially severe complication?
  Rheumatology, January 07, 2022
• Predictive Effect of Salt Intake in Non-Dialysis CKD A new study examines the impacts of different levels of salt intake in CKD patients. Do the effects differ between younger and older patients?
  Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, January 04, 2022
• Dapagliflozin in Patients With CKD, With and Without HF Heart failure is common in patients with chronic kidney disease. Might the SGLT-2 inhibitor dapagliflozin reduce the risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular death in these patients?
  JACC: Heart Failure, January 03, 2022