Kidney & Pancreas Transplant News

• 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
• Newly Published Study on Successful Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplant First published account of successful pig-to-human transplant in a brain-dead recipient opens the door to clinical trials in animal-to-human kidney donation.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2022
• Good Long-Term Outcomes of Kidney/Liver Transplant in Adults With HIV HIV-positive kidney- and liver-transplant patients can expect good long-term outcomes following the transplant, comparable with those of matched HIV-negative peers, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, January 17, 2022
• Kidney Failure Risk Equation Works Without Race Adjustment A National Kidney Foundation and American Society of Nephrology task force endorsed a new eGFR equation that drops race adjustment. Data now show it works fine in a Kidney Failure Risk Equation.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2022
• THINKER-NEXT Studies the Transplant of HCV-Infected Kidneys THINKER-NEXT trial aims to determine the risks and benefits of transplanting kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors into hepatitis C-negative recipients.
  Medscape Medical News, January 10, 2022
• Live Donors for First Kidney Transplant Improve Kids' Life-Years Pediatric patients whose first kidney transplant is from a live donor show improved life years over those whose first kidney transplant is a deceased donor.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2022
• Students Lead Reform When It Comes to Med School Racial Inequity Medical school leaders say they are seeing new momentum in students demanding changes in curricula and medical assumptions and acknowledgment of medicine's dark racial past.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2022
• HIV+ Patients Get Good Outcomes After Kidney or Liver Transplant Patient and graft survival outcomes after 15 years support transplant benefits in HIV population.
  Medscape Medical News, January 05, 2022
• Heterologous COVID Booster: No Better Response in Kidney Patients Kidney transplant recipients have similar outcomes with both heterologous and homologous third SARS-Cov-2 vaccine doses, a randomized clinical trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, December 28, 2021