Tag: Organ Transplants

Epstein-Barr virus viral load monitoring may reduce incidence of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease

All Composite Allocation Score scenarios examined led to improved measures of equity compared with current Lung Allocation Score system

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5.4 percent decrease seen in probability of any organ placement at age 70 versus 69 years

None of the grafts with a cumulative age of 100 years were lost to primary nonfunction or to vascular/biliary complications

Despite longer waiting list times, graft and recipient survival maintained and waiting list mortality unchanged

One-, five-, 10-year patient survival was 92.6, 82.8, 70.0 percent in United States; 96.1, 89.9, and 82.2 percent in Canada

Racial disparities in preemptive wait time accrual may be reduced with use of the 2021 creatinine-based CKD-EPI equation

Graft survival comparable for living unrelated donor, living related donor kidney recipients

Approval is for chronic disease after failure of one or more lines of systemic therapy