Surgery

Researchers find alternate drug therapy lowers antibodies

Findings of a three-year clinical trial led by University of Cincinnati (UC) transplant researchers suggest that a novel pre-operative drug therapy reduces antibodies in kidney patients with greater success than with traditional ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study explores best pre-transplant weight loss options

Vanderbilt researchers are comparing two types of weight-loss options to determine which is the most effective in helping obese patients reach a more ideal weight before undergoing kidney transplant surgery.

HIV & AIDS

A surgeon's fight to legalize HIV-to-HIV organ transplants

Peter Stock, MD, PhD, a transplant surgeon at UC San Francisco, considers himself a representative specimen of his profession. "I think we're all typically atypical," he said, by which he means that transplant surgeons thrive ...

Surgery

Tailored education system to benefit kidney transplant patients

Patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease have to go to a dialysis center for hours at a time, several times a week for the rest of their lives. Patients on dialysis have strict dietary restrictions, ...

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