Highlights

Friday, 24 May 2013- Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues, reporting in the journal Biomaterials, found that human kidneys discarded for transplant can potentially serve as a natural "scaffolding...

Tuesday, 21 May 2013- Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of...

Tuesday, 5 March 2013- A transplanted kidney has a finite life expectancy because it often becomes the target of the recipient's immune system, which may mount antibodies that attack the organ.

Since there is a critical need to...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013- Can stem cells provide an answer to the perplexing question of how to ensure long-term survival of transplanted kidneys? The results of a new Phase 1 clinical trial say maybe so. Details of the trial,...

Friday, 30 November 2012- Recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) increase mortality and reduce graft survival after renal transplantation. Strategies to prevent recurrent UTIs include L-methionine, cranberry juice, and...

Thursday, 8 November 2012- Patients with pre-diabetes may still be eligible to serve as kidney donors, making more organs available for transplant, researchers said here. In a single-center, retrospective study, only about...

Monday, 5 November 2012- M. Dönmez and colleagues from Ankara, Turkey won the second prize for Best Abstract from Karl Storz during the recently concluded EAU 8th South Eastern European Meeting (SEEM) held in Sofia,...

Thursday, 11 October 2012- Prophylactic ureteric stenting has been shown to reduce ureteric leaks and collecting system obstruction following renal transplantation and is in widespread use. However, the optimal time for removal...

Thursday, 13 September 2012- In people with late-stage chronic kidney disease, renal transplantation is the best treatment option to improve quality of life, but for those receiving dialysis, home-based automated peritoneal...

Thursday, 13 September 2012- A subgroup of patients awaiting a kidney transplant could benefit from closer surveillance by SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging, researchers suggested.

Of the 133 patients in the study who underwent...