kidney transplant

(MedPage Today) -- Patients who stopped taking the immunosuppressant prednisone soon after a kidney transplant avoided steroid-related side effects without putting their new organs at risk, according to a decade-long study.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The parents of a 3-year-old girl say she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, but experts caution the situation may be much more complex....

Two sets of families divided by two healthy kidneys equals two lives saved.

A Manhattan dad with a deadly kidney disease is in a race against time to find a new apartment so he’ll be eligible for a lifesaving kidney transplant.

A young Florida woman desperately seeking a kidney donor turned to Craigslist as a last ditch effort to save her own life -- and she got what she was looking for.

(MedPage Today) -- One of the nation's premier transplant programs, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has been put on probation by the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), the latest fallout from a botched kidney transplant in May.

(American Society of Nephrology) Healthy individuals over 70 years old can safely donate a kidney. Kidneys from elderly donors do not last as long as those from younger living donors, but they last just as long as organs from younger deceased donors.

Nearly 90,000 people in the US are waiting for a kidney transplant, and many will die before a suitable organ becomes available.

(MedPage Today) -- Limiting the use of calcineurin inhibitors following kidney transplantation may improve clinical outcomes, although not all of the newer regimens are of equal value, a meta-analysis showed.

(MedPage Today) -- Survival after kidney transplantation improved significantly in patients who underwent desensitization involving depletion of donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies, data from an 11-year clinical experience showed.

A story suspicious for EMR malfunction appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

Transplant team missed hepatitis result
Kidney donor, recipient unaware of virus' presence Saturday, May 21, 2011 By Sean D.

Hamill and Jonathan D. Silver, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette