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2 Minute Medicine Rewind March 14, 2016
Survival Benefit with Kidney Transplants from HLA-Incompatible Live Donors Many patients in the United States with anti-HLA antibodies remain on ...
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Belatacept provides better long-term immunosuppression in kidney transplantation than cyclosporine: The BENEFIT study
1. Seven years after transplantation, patient and kidney graft survival and function were significantly higher with belatacept than cyclosporine based ...
Mild hypothermia for deceased organ donors reduces the rate of delayed graft function in renal transplants
1. The rate of delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients is significantly reduced by hypothermia prior to implantation. 2. ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind February 9 – February 15, 2015
In this section, we highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the past week. HIV-Positive-to-HIV-Positive ...
HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive kidney transplantation successful at 5 years
1. HIV-positive patients receiving kidney transplants from HIV-positive donor patients experienced a 5-year cumulative survival of 74% and a 5-year ...
Patient Basics: Kidney Transplant
Originally published by Harvard Health. What Is It? A kidney transplant is surgery in which a person who has permanent kidney ...
The 3C Study: Alemtuzumab may reduce acute rejection following kidney transplant
1. Alemtuzumab induction treatment significantly reduced events of biopsy-proven acute rejection (BPAR) when compared with standard basiliximab-based therapy (BBT). 2. ...
Antibodies against apoptotic cells may predict kidney transplant rejection
1. Kidney transplant patients have higher IgG reactivity to apoptotic cells (IRAC) than healthy patients. 2. Greater levels of pretransplant ...
Pregnancy outcomes in kidney transplant recipients encouraging
Image: PD 1. Post-kidney transplant pregnancies are mostly successful and outcomes are improving. 2. Babies of kidney transplant recipients are ...
Anti-HLA antibodies predict worse kidney-allograft survival
Image: PD 1. C1q-binding donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies predicted worse graft survival in kidney transplant patients. 2. Inclusion of C1q-binding donor-specific ...
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