
The Impact of Pre-donation Weight Loss on Post-donation Outcome. Dr. Marsden from Cardiff transplant unit, University of Wales, shared data on donor obesity from their living donor program during an abstract presentation at the ATC. Programs involved in clearing living kidney donors often have weight cutoffs for living kidney donors but the data on what […]



Nephropathology: A Nephrologist’s Perspective
Invited commentary by Dr. Vivekanand Jha D’Agati and Mengel provide a fascinating account of the history of kidney pathology over last 60 years. As they note, it is impossible to imagine nephrology as it exists today without acknowledging the major, even pivotal, contributions of pathologists. Except structural abnormalities that can be detected by imaging, the […]