Tag: kidney transplant recipients
Post-kidney transplant delirium associated with sevenfold greater risk of dementia
Transplant centres “should be aware” of the cognitive risks associated with post-kidney transplant delirium and should also implement available preventative interventions to reduce delirium...
Study suggests infection concerns “should not affect” implementation of ABOi kidney...
Concerns regarding infectious complications should not affect the implementation of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplant programmes, as per the findings from a nationwide, prospective cohort...
New guideline supports kidney exchange programmes and “integrated approach” in sensitised...
A new guideline on the management of highly sensitised kidney transplant patients—those who have high levels of human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) and are therefore more...
Stanford paediatricians transplant kidneys without need for immunosuppressants
Physicians at Stanford Medicine (Stanford, USA) have developed a way to provide paediatric kidney transplants without immunosuppressant drugs. Their key innovation, according to a Stanford press...
Talaris announces positive kidney graft acceptance findings from FREEDOM-1 study
Talaris Therapeutics today provided a clinical update on its ongoing phase 3 FREEDOM-1 study of FCR001—the company's investigational allogeneic cell therapy designed to induce...
NICE recommends Idefirix in treatment of highly sensitised kidney transplant recipients
Hansa Biopharma has announced a recommendation by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for its first-in-class treatment Idefirix (imlifidase) in the...
NephroSant launches two-year AQUA study involving 2,000 kidney transplant recipients
NephroSant has today announced enrolment of the first patient in its AQUA (Assessment of QSant for underlying allograft rejection) study. Eligible participants will have...
Transplantation of gene-edited pig kidneys in decedent human model is “game-changing...
Peer-reviewed research outlining the successful transplant of genetically modified, clinical-grade pig kidneys into a brain-dead human individual has been published in the American Journal...
Standard vaccination regimens may not provide adequate protection against new SARS-CoV-2...
Kidney transplant recipients tend to mount impaired antibody responses against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants after standard two-dose COVID-19 vaccination, according to a study published in the...