A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher is looking for ways artificial intelligence can improve how kidney donors are matched with recipients.
Missouri S&T engineering management assistant professor Casey Canfield is leading a research effort to develop AI software that can streamline the matching process. Read more from St. Louis Public Radio.
Non-compliance with immunosuppressive drugs has been reported as the most significant cause of graft loss. Since non-compliance with immunosuppressive drugs is preventable, certain approaches based on the risk factors and causes of non-compliance can help eliminate this problem.
Read the complete abstract in Cureus.
“It’s a gift of life,” says PKD survivor Judith Belair-Kyle who received a kidney transplant on Dec. 1 from a live donor after over a year of campaigning on social media. Brittany Henriques reports. Watch her story here.
Specially adapted supercar driven from Padua to Rome to ‘deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life’
Italian police have used a specially adapted Lamborghini supercar to deliver two kidneys to donor patients hundreds of kilometres apart.
“Travelling on the motorway to deliver the most beautiful Christmas present – life,” they said in a statement posted on social media, alongside a picture of a medical cool box in a purpose-built compartment at the front of the Huracán.
Read the full story in The Guardian.
At the end of 2007, Ebert Mahon’s family went on a cruise. When he noticed early in 2008 that he was gaining weight, he figured that the cruise’s all-you-can-eat buffets had taken their toll. In his late 40s, Mahon normally tipped the scales at 180 pounds. But soon enough, the number crept to 235. “Could I really have eaten that much on the 10-day trip?” he wondered. Read more about Ebert’s transplant journey on CareDx.com.
The SGLT2 inhibitor dapagliflozin was associated with a reduced risk for hospitalization due to any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease with and without type 2 diabetes, according to a post hoc analysis of the DAPA-CKD trial. Read more in Healio.
In 2022 the millionth organ transplant in the U.S. took place, and Atrium Health is proud to be part of that amazing accomplishment. Two of those recipients are fraternal twins Ashtin and Amelia, who credit their surgeons and the transplant and dialysis teams at Atrium Health for changing their lives.
Read more from Atrium Health.
by Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today December 8, 2022
ORLANDO — Many patients who undergo successful renal transplantation and also have Crohn’s disease were able to avoid immunomodulating or biologic agents to control their gut disease, researchers found.
Of 37 patients with renal transplants who were also diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, 48.6% were off medical therapy for treatment of Crohn’s disease after transplant, reported Marianny Sulbaran, MD, PhD, a fellow in gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
Read the full story in MedPage Today.
Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is the best marker of allograft function and is a predictor of allograft and patient survival among kidney transplant recipients. Measurement of true GFR is costly and time-consuming, while eGFR is a relatively inexpensive and efficient marker to track allograft function.
Read more in Nephrology Times.
Scott Schneider, 59, misses teaching in-person classes.
Connections with his students and seeing that “ah ha” moment they express when a science concept finally clicks are among the aspects he loves most about the job he’s had for 30 years at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield. Read the story from Michigan Live.