There are limited data on the degree of variability in practices surrounding prioritization of referrals for transplant evaluation and criteria for transplant candidacy and their association with transplantation rates. We surveyed transplant programs across the United States between January 2020 and May 2020...
Apparent variability in wait-listing criteria globally has raised concern about inequitable access to kidney transplantation. This study aimed to compare t... P Batabyal,JR Chapman,G Wong,... - 《Transplantation》 被引量: 69发表: 2012年 Critical Appraisal of International Clinical Practice Guidelin...
Inclusion criteria for transplant recipients include those receiving kidneys from an eligible living- or deceased-donor with recent African ancestry, regardless of the recipients’ ancestry. Multi-organ transplants, such as a kidney with an additional organ or pediatric en bloc and dual kidney transpla...
In kidney transplantation, day-zero biopsies are used to assess organ quality and discriminate between donor-inherited lesions and those acquired post-transplantation. However, many centers do not perform such biopsies since they are invasive, costly and may delay the transplant procedure. We aim to...
Candidate 2 has HLA-specific antibodies but does not meet the individual center’s criteria for listing those HLA as unacceptable antigens. Once an organ is allocated for this candidate, though this individual has DSA, after careful analysis of the donor HLA and recipient antibody profiles, the ...
Participants were eligible for inclusion if all the following criteria were met: (1) ≥18 years of age (2) End-stage kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis (including hemodiafiltration) for ≥3 months and stable, in the view of the investigator (3) Body weight ≥50 kg (4) Men...
The NAV-KIDS2 trial is a multi-centre, staggered entry, waitlisted randomised controlled trial assessing the health benefits and costs of a patient navigator program in children with CKD (stages 3–5, on dialysis, and with kidney transplants), who are of low socioeconomic backgrounds. Across ...
We do however use the same age-independent screening and acceptance criteria for both first and second transplants. Consequently, those patients who are accepted for listing are accepted because they are medically fit for transplantation. In spite of this, TX2 patients had significantly lower ...
In order to be reimbursed for travel and qualifying expenses, potential living organ donors must also meet all of the following eligibility criteria and attest to: be a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident; have primary residence in the U.S. or its territories; travel is originating from the ...
The patients’ demographic criteria are listed in Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1. Demographic data from the study population. Table 2. Characteristics of patients. Overall, the rate of recurrence of primary FSGS on the kidney transplant was 47%. In addition, all patients that relapsed after...