The term "kidney transplant recipient" refers to a person who has undergone surgery to receive a new kidney from a donor.
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Levels of a protein in the urine
of kidney transplant recipients can distinguish those at low risk of developing kidney injury from those at high risk, a study suggests.
Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in
kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.
In this multicenter Clinical Trials in Organ Transplantation study, doctors periodically collected urine samples from 280 adult and
child kidney transplant recipients for two years after transplantation.
The researchers measured absolute levels of mRNAs in 84 urine samples from 84
kidney transplant recipients who had undergone needle biopsy of the transplanted kidney to determine the cause of their acute kidney dysfunction.
«Development of noninvasive tests to detect immune activation before kidney damage occurs would help guide the care
of kidney transplant recipients,» said NIAID Transplantation Branch Chief Nancy Bridges, M.D., a co-author of the paper.
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When creatinine levels are elevated in the blood of
a kidney transplant recipient, it is an indication that the transplanted kidney is not functioning well.
«Our study shows that when the creatinine level is elevated in the blood of
a kidney transplant recipient, use of our urine test would differentiate the common causes of kidney dysfunction that led to the elevation in creatinine, hence benefiting many patients by allowing them to avoid the need for an invasive needle biopsy,» said Dr. Muthukumar.
James B. Wetmore, MD, MS (University of Kansas Medical Center) and his colleagues conducted the first study to examine cancer risk in
kidney transplant recipients with PKD and to compare their risk to that of other kidney transplant recipients.
Adaptive immune cell methylation pattern may be a fingerprint of acute rejection in
kidney transplant recipients.
Two renal - risk variants in the apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1), termed G1 and G2, are present in a large percentage of African American organ donors and
kidney transplant recipients.
Dr Fung, Just wondering if you have had
any kidney transplant recipients fast to address T2DM / weight loss post transplant?
The kidney toxicity seen with cyclosporine and tacrolimus is particularly problematic in
kidney transplant recipients and may negate a kidney transplant.
He was
a kidney transplant recipient in 1973 when he was 21, following a series of misdiagnoses at other hospitals in his native Michigan.