Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

In a leading-edge approach, the research team analyzed a large, anonymized dataset of kidney offers, linking individual clinician data from on-call records of 15 transplant centers to national ...

The two-part study consisted of a quantitative retrospective chart review of demographic, medical, and social characteristics of pediatric kidney transplant recipients at CHOP from 2019 to 2024. Then ...

Dr. Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney — also called an "explant" — is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal ...

The Ministry of Health has suspended kidney transplant services at Mediheal Hospital and redirected patients to eight other licensed facilities, including Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi ...

Interestingly, in 2023 and 2024, Stanford University issued papers detailing its own beating-heart transplant operations – but in procedures to date, the hearts had undergone brief periods of ...

If left untreated, CKD can progress to kidney failure, requiring dialysis or a transplant. Regular checkups, managing underlying conditions, staying hydrated, and avoiding excessive painkillers ...

In current clinical practice, immune reactivity of kidney transplant recipients is estimated by monitoring the levels of immunosuppressive drugs, and by functional and/or histological evaluation ...