She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis – an inherited condition that causes mucus buildup in the lungs, and often leads to ...

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

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...

Bhutanese kidney transplant recipients are experiencing an alarmingly poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The review aimed to underline the clinical potential of AI-based models in predicting transplant outcomes and contribute to the growing body of evidence that supports the use of AI in HT. This ...

18 days), lower reintubation rates (14.7% vs. 19.8%), and reduced need for post-transplant dialysis (4.2% vs. 6.4%). Early survival was comparable, with a 30-day survival rate of 97.6% for SLT vs.

Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was associated with improved survival and reduced graft loss among kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...