Kidney & Pancreas Transplant Perspective

• Strangers Donating Kidneys: 'Important Contributions' Kidney donations from strangers have been increasing, but there is still need for more. Dr Divyanshu Malhotra reviews current programs and offers ways to increase 'Good Samaritan' donations.
  Medscape Nephrology, April 29, 2022
• Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 10, 2022
• How a Low-Protein Diet Can Delay Dialysis The low-protein PLADO diet can boost the effects of medications and help preserve renal function.
  Medscape Nephrology, November 05, 2021
• ERA-EDTA 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2021
  Medscape Nephrology, June 07, 2021
• Organ Harvesting's Troubled Past — and Complicated Present With the rise of organ transplantation came difficult ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life.
  Undark, April 15, 2021
• NKF 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from the virtual NKF 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings
  Medscape Nephrology, April 01, 2021
• Lawsuit: Doctor Leaked Private Information to Patient's Family Treating patients from the same family who live together can raise your risk for privacy violations.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, March 08, 2021
• Does Oxygenated Cold Perfusate Improve Transplant Outcomes? If ischemia is a barrier to organ preservation, will the addition of oxygen to cold preservation solutions improve renal transplant outcomes?
  Medscape Nephrology, January 28, 2021
• The Kidney and COVID-19: What We Know so Far   Nephrologists Matthew Sparks and Samira Farouk, of the Freely Filtered podcast, discuss the kidney effects of COVID-19 -- what is and isn't clear in patients with and without preexisting kidney disease.
  Medscape Nephrology, August 10, 2020
• ERA-EDTA 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, June 09, 2020
• NKF 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from NKF 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, March 23, 2020
• Top 5 Diabetes Highlights From 2019 For the first time in several years, a cardiovascular outcomes trial may not be the most exciting diabetes news of the year. Here are 2019's highlights from Dr Harpreet Bajaj.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, January 17, 2020
• Trump Should Get Kudos for Looking at Kidney Dialysis, Transplant   Dr Art Caplan discusses President Trump's ideas regarding re-examination of dialysis and kidney transplant in the US, and the need to improve access to immunosuppressive drugs post-transplant.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, August 30, 2019
• The Week That Wasn't: 5G Scare, Brain Hacks, Artificial Kidney A quick overview of three medical stories that are worth a mention.
  Medscape, July 19, 2019
• Advancing American Kidney Health: The Ultimate RCT? President Trump's Executive Order puts nephrology center stage. Tejas Desai, MD, reviews what the initiative entails for kidney disease clinicians and what details are yet to come.
  Medscape Nephrology, July 19, 2019
• ERA-EDTA 2019 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ERA-EDTA 2019
  Medscape Nephrology, May 20, 2019
• Discarded No More: HCV-Infected Organs Advance Transplantation Direct-acting antiviral therapy has made the use of HCV-infected organs a reality. Here is an inside look at one liver transplant program as they deliberate this option for their patients.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 03, 2019
• New RBI for Kidney Allografts: Can It Replace Routine Tests? Dr Desai reviews a study examining the usefulness of a new renal biopsy index (1-RBI). Could it be used in place of invasive routine biopsies in deceased-donor kidney transplant recipients?
  Medscape Nephrology, January 14, 2019
• The Year's Top 10 Gastroenterology Articles Dr David Johnson comments on the latest recommendations and clinical studies that are reshaping how we treat some of the most common gastrointestinal disorders.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, December 19, 2018
• POCUS for Catheter Placement: Relevance to Nephrology Dr Desai states why nephrologists should consider ultrasound-based catheter confirmation in lieu of chest x-rays.
  Medscape Nephrology, September 14, 2018