In this video, an expert discusses study results presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session that assessed sex-based differences observed in end-stage kidney disease after heart ...

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

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

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

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

The results suggest that kidney pumping may be an effective strategy to mitigate the risk of graft failure. Kidney pumping of both mate kidneys with a cold ischemia time greater than 12 hours “should ...

Patterson is a registered nurse and executive director of a consulting firm that supports OPTN contracts.

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 ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

While there have been massive strides forward in treating cancer in the last decades – with a doubling in survival rates in the last 50 years – a failure to identify patients with earlier ...

Transplant immunology is the study of the immune response that occurs when an organ or tissue is moved (grafted) from one individual to another. A major problem following transplantation is that ...