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Patient survival with end-stage renal disease is longer after kidney transplantation (KT) compared with those remaining on dialysis. Nevertheless, this remains uncertain when receiving a kidney from a donor ≥80 years old. In a longitudinal mortality study in the Catalan Renal Registry including 2585 patients ≥60 years old on dialysis and placed on ...
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Renal insufficiency can occur in patients with congenital lower urinary tract malformations (LUTM) even when managed during infancy. Data in the current literature concerning this subject remain sparse. The aim of this study was to report the feasibility and long-term results of renal transplantation during adulthood in patients with a congenital L...
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Renal lymphangiectasia is a rare and poorly understood lymphatic disease associated with lymphatic dilation and leakage. To our knowledge, no cases have been described in the context of a transplanted kidney. We describe 2 cases of renal lymphangiectasia in transplanted kidneys, both from pediatric donors. The cases of allograft lymphangiectasia ar...
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The French uncontrolled donors after circulatory death (DCD) protocol restricts donor age to
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A calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-free immunosuppressive regimen has been demonstrated to improve renal function early after heart transplantation, but long-term outcome of such a strategy has not been well described. In the randomized SCHEDULE trial, de novo heart transplant recipients received (1) everolimus with reduced-exposure CNI (cyclosporine) f...
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In simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplant recipients, the majority of complications described in the literature, are early postoperative complications. However, there is growing attention for late complications associated with SPK transplantation. In this case series, we present 3 cases, 2 enterically and 1 bladder-derived SPK transplant pat...
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To date, no living donation program has simultaneously addressed the needs of both transplant candidates and living donors by separating the advocacy role from the candidate and improving potential donor comfort with the evaluation process. We hypothesized that the development of a novel program designed to promote both advocacy and systems trainin...
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Improved management of growth impairment might have resulted in less growth retardation after pediatric kidney transplantation (KT) over time. We aimed to analyze recent longitudinal growth data after KT in comparison to previous eras, its determinants, and the association with transplant outcome in a large cohort of transplanted children using dat...
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This systematic review was commissioned to identify new variables associated with transplant outcomes that are not currently collected by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). We identified 81 unique studies including 1 193 410 patients with median follow-up of 36 months posttransplant, reporting 108 unique risk factors. Most ri...
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Kidneys from infectious risk donors (IRD) confer substantial survival benefit in adults, yet the benefit of IRD kidneys to pediatric candidates remains unclear in the context of high waitlist prioritization. Using 2010-2016 Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients data, we studied 2417 pediatric candidates (age
