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Mashup Score: 2Expanding the access to kidney transplantation: Strategies for kidney transplant programs - 4 day(s) ago
Clinical Transplantation is an international transplantation journal publishing the latest research surrounding organ and tissue transplant surgery.
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Mashup Score: 5Prediction system for risk of allograft loss in patients receiving kidney transplants: international derivation and validation study - 4 day(s) ago
Objective To develop and validate an integrative system to predict long term kidney allograft failure. Design International cohort study. Setting Three cohorts including kidney transplant recipients from 10 academic medical centres from Europe and the United States. Participants Derivation cohort: 4000 consecutive kidney recipients prospectively recruited in four French centres between 2005 and 2014. Validation cohorts: 2129 kidney recipients from three centres in Europe and 1428 from three centres in North America, recruited between 2002 and 2014. Additional validation in three randomised controlled trials ([NCT01079143][1], EudraCT 2007-003213-13, and [NCT01873157][2]). Main outcome measure Allograft failure (return to dialysis or pre-emptive retransplantation). 32 candidate prognostic factors for kidney allograft survival were assessed. Results Among the 7557 kidney transplant recipients included, 1067 (14.1%) allografts failed after a median post-transplant follow-up time of 7.12 (
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Mashup Score: 15Recurrence of membranous nephropathy after kidney transplantation: A multicenter retrospective cohort study - PubMed - 4 day(s) ago
Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a leading cause of kidney failure worldwide and frequently recurs after transplant. Available data originated from small retrospective cohort studies or registry analyses; therefore, uncertainties remain on risk factors for MN recurrence and response to therapy. Within …
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Mashup Score: 36Who can tolerate a marginal kidney? Predicting survival after deceased donor kidney transplant by donor–recipient combination - 5 day(s) ago
In this national registry study, the authors use a machine learning algorithm to estimate 5-year posttransplant survival by combinations of Kidney Donor Profile Index and Estimated Post Transplant Su…
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Mashup Score: 6
Disparities that affect equity in access to kidney transplantation for patients with kidney failure have been well described. Many robust clinical trials have tested the effectiveness of interventions to reduce disparities and equilibrate access to kidney transplantation. Moreover, policy changes ha …
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Mashup Score: 17Kidney Comics: T-Cell Mediated Rejection (Kidney Transplant) - 13 day(s) ago
By: Dr. Momen Abbasi
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Mashup Score: 21Medicine Comics - - 16 day(s) ago
by Momen Abbasi Want one on a mug? Check out the NephSIM Store – don’t see one you like? Email us! Check out other comic-related swag here Nephrology Educational Kidney Comics Heart & Others
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Mashup Score: 8Diarrhea in a Patient With Combined Kidney-Pancreas Transplant - 22 day(s) ago
A 47-year-old man with acute worsening of chronic diarrhea was admitted to the hospital with a serum creatinine of 2.2mg/dL from a baseline of 1.6mg/dL. Medical history was remarkable for type 1 diabetes mellitus (diagnosed 8 years prior) complicated by kidney failure requiring kidney-pancreas transplant (cytomegalovirus [CMV] IgG-positive donor; CMV IgG-negative recipient) 3 years before presentation. The patient reported having long-standing diarrhea with 5 to 8 bowel movements per day for 25 years.
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Mashup Score: 24
Nature Reviews Nephrology – Clinical algorithms that are used to guide medical decision-making often include sex as a variable. However, binary considerations of sex and/or gender might introduce…
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Mashup Score: 25New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist - 27 day(s) ago
Jazmin Evans is one of 14,280 kidney transplant candidates moved up the waitlist between January 2023 and mid-March 2024, due to a new race-neutral kidney evaluation.
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