Candidates for kidney transplant face age, racial gaps in telehealthCarter, Shawn M.Nephrology News & Issues
kidney (native) functionAcute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are common in patients awaiting liver transplantation, and both have a marked impact on the perioperative and long-term morbidity and mortality of liver transplant recipients. Consequently, we reviewed the epidemiology...
In this study, we applied 2 tools commonly used by physical therapists, the 6-minute walk test and the sit-to-stand test, to assess patients on the kidney transplant waitlist. Among 305 patients followed up for at least 1 year, patients who did better on the 2 tests were less likely ...
The prevalence of obesity (body mass index ≥30 kg/m2) at the time of transplantation among kidney transplant recipients in the United States has doubled between 1987 and 2001 and continues to increase inexorably. Single-center and large registry studies in kidney transplant recipients demonstrated ...
These favorable outcomes have led many transplant programs to accept HCV NAT+ organs for their uninfected patients.15, 16, 17, 18 For example, Lentine et al.18 found that 58% of kidney transplant programs surveyed offer HCV+/HCV− transplantation as a part of routine clinical care, clinica...
Simultaneous pancreas-kidney versus kidney-alone transplants in diabetics: Increased risk of early cardiac death and acute rejection following pancreas tra... The decision between a simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) or kidney-alone (KA) transplant for the treatment of diabetic end-stage renal ...
The Patient Care and Education Committee of the American Society of Transplant Physicians conducted a survey of all U.S. centers that participate in the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) concerning their evaluation of adult candidates for kidney transplantation. The response to each question ...
The most used frailty scale in kidney patients is Fried scale, which is based in five phenotypic items. Besides that, knowing frail population allows potential interventions such as prehabilitation while the patient is waiting for the kidney transplant, which the aim of improving their vulnerability ...
A high prevalence of frailty is found among kidney transplant (KT) candidates and recipients. Therefore, their frailty has become a research hotspot in the field of transplantation. However, current studies mainly focus on the cross-sectional survey of the incidence of frailty among KT candidates ...
Ideally, those patients with response to therapy would be given priority for transplant to avoid the need for simultaneous liver–kidney transplant (SLKT) (63). Download: Download high-res image (571KB) Download: Download full-size image Figure 1. Algorithm for management of AKI. ACS, acute ...