ATC2015: Antibodies and Allograft Injury
There were two fascinating talks about the use of C1q modified Luminex assay to assess for complement fixing antibodies both before and after kidney transplantation. Prior [...]
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ATC2015: Biomarkers in Transplantation
Biomarkers are always a hot topic in transplantation. At the ATC, Dr. Barbara Murphy, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, gave an intriguing discussion on [...]
ATC2015: Blocking B7 in Kidney Transplantation, Is It Effective in Preventing FSGS?
The American Transplant Congress (ATC) is the joint annual meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and [...]
Top 10 eAJKD Posts From 2014
eAJKD Advisory Board member, Dr. Matt Sparks, gathered the top 10 eAJKD posts from 2014 (in reverse order): 10. Kidney Week 2014: New Drug for Hyperkalemia by Dr. Dena [...]
Cardiovascular Disease & Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Is Vitamin K Status the Missing Link?
Matrix Gla is a protein secreted in the arterial media that acts as a calcification inhibitor. The active form of matrix Gla protein is both carboxylated and [...]
It’s Finally Here! The New US Kidney Allocation System
Today marks an exciting change in kidney transplantation. Although there have been adjustments to the kidney allocation system over the last 20 years, there has not been a [...]
Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of the 2014 World Transplant Congress
Check out all of the coverage of this year’s World Transplant Congress by eAJKD’s Dr. Vinay Nair on Twitter (@eAJKD) and below: Detection of C3d binding donor specific [...]
#WTC2014: One Center’s Discard Is Another Center’s Transplant
Dr. Kent from Mt. Sinai, NY, presented interesting data about outcomes of kidney sharing in the NY organ donor network. Patients listed for kidney transplantation in NY [...]
#WTC2014: New weapons in the fight against antibodies? Maybe… (part 2)
2. C1 inhibitor (C1INH) If you remember your allergy immunology rotation you may remember that this drug is approved for hereditary angioedema. It works proximally in the [...]
#WTC2014: New weapons in the fight against antibodies? Maybe…
Anyone who takes care of kidney transplant patients knows how frustrating it is dealing with HLA antibodies. This includes pre-transplant HLA antibodies, which can make it [...]