Trends in Survival for Adult Organ Transplantation by Grant Patrick, BS, Brian Hickner, MD, Karthik Goli, BS, Liam D. Ferreira, MBA, John Goss, MD, Abbas Rana, MD

“…However, the percentage of patients transplanted within 1 year significantly decreased from 35.8% to 21.2% for kidney transplant. Notably, intent-to-treat survival has decreased for kidneys despite increases in waitlist and post-transplant survival, likely because of the decreased transplant rate. …”
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Pretransplant HbA1c Is a Useful Predictor for the Development of New-Onset Diabetes in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving No or Low-Dose Erythropoietin by Kazuaki Tokodai, Noritoshi Amada, Izumi Haga, Atsushi Nakamura, Toshiaki Kashiwadate, Naoki Kawagishi, Noriaki Ohuchi

“…To evaluate the predictive power of pretransplant HbA1c for new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) in kidney transplant candidates, who had several predispositions for fluctuated HbA1c levels. …”
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Large Right Atrial Thrombus Associated with Central Venous Catheter Requiring Open Heart Surgery by Nasir Hussain, Paul Eric Shattuck, Mourad Hussein Senussi, Erwin Velasquez Kho, Mubeenkhan Mohammedabdul, Devang K. Sanghavi, Usman Mustafa, Arvind Balavenkataraman, Dragic M. Obradovic

“…We describe an interesting case of a 59-year-old asymptomatic male successfully treated with open heart surgery after failure of medical treatment for a large CRAT discovered during a preoperative evaluation for a kidney transplant. Our case underscores that early detection of CRAT may carry a favorable prognosis as opposed to waiting until catastrophic complications arise. …”
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Nurse-Led Self-Management Support After Organ Transplantation – A Multicenter, Stepped-Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial by Regina van Zanten, Monique van Dijk, Joost van Rosmalen, Joost van Rosmalen, Denise K. Beck, AnneLoes van Staa, Ann Van Hecke, Ann Van Hecke, Emma K. Massey

“…In this unblinded multi-center stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial the effectiveness of the nurse-led ZENN-intervention was tested in promoting self-management skills in comparison to standard care among heart, lung and kidney transplant recipients. This intervention is based on behaviour change theories and was conducted in four sessions over 6 months at the outpatient clinic. …”
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Cardiopulmonary fitness in children/adolescents with chronic kidney disease and the impact of exercise training: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational study and ra... by Fan Zhang, Yan Bai, Liuyan Huang, Yifei Zhong

“…Except for pre-dialysis CKD patients, peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis and kidney transplant recipients had significantly lower cardiorespiratory fitness than healthy controls. …”
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Perspectives on AI-based recommendations for mask-wearing and COVID-19 vaccination for transplant recipients in the post-COVID-19 era by Oscar A. Garcia Valencia, Charat Thongprayoon, Jing Miao, Jackrapong Bruminhent, Iasmina M. Craici, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

“…Regarding vaccination guidance, the AI strongly advocates for the COVID-19 vaccine across most scenarios for kidney transplant recipients. However, it recommends a personalized consultation with healthcare providers in cases where patients express concerns about vaccine-related side effects, demonstrating an ability to adapt recommendations based on individual health considerations. …”
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Risk-Stratified Cardiovascular Screening Including Angiographic and Procedural Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Renal Transplant Candidates by Julian König, Martin Möckel, Eda Mueller, Wolfgang Bocksch, Seema Baid-Agrawal, Nina Babel, Ralf Schindler, Petra Reinke, Peter Nickel

“…Benefits of cardiac screening in kidney transplant candidates (KTC) will be dependent on the availability of effective interventions. …”
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Lived experiences of people with chronic kidney disease on maintenance dialysis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies by Maya Annie Elias, Wim Van Damme, Grace Marie V Ku, Mahesh Kadammanavar, Edwin Wouters

“…People with the most advanced stage of CKD require renal replacement therapies, either dialysis (the focus of this study) or a kidney transplant. Research on CKD has primarily focused on its clinical, epidemiological, and public health aspects. …”
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Gene Expression Profile in Delay Graft Function: Inflammatory Markers Are Associated with Recipient and Donor Risk Factors by Diego Guerrieri, Luis Re, Jorgelina Petroni, Nella Ambrosi, Roxana E. Pilotti, H. Eduardo Chuluyan, Domingo Casadei, Claudio Incardona

“…Delayed graft function (DGF) remains an important problem after kidney transplantation and reduced long-term graft survival of the transplanted organ. …”
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Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis of peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis in South Africa by Evelyn Thsehla, Micheal Kofi Boachie, Susan Goldstein

“…Haemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD), and kidney transplant are the three main modalities used for managing end stage kidney disease. …”
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Outcomes of Living Kidney Donor Candidates and Living Kidney Recipient Candidates with JC Polyomavirus and BK Polyomavirus Viruria by Sara Querido, Carolina Ormonde, Teresa Adragão, Inês Costa, Maria Ana Pessanha, Perpétua Gomes, André Weigert

“…Twenty-six living kidney transplant surgeries were performed. LKR were followed in order to evaluate BKV and JCV viremia and urinary viral shedding after KT. …”
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Plasma proteome fingerprint in kidney diseases by Kirill S. Nikolsky, Arthur T. Kopylov, Valeriya I. Nakhod, Natalia V. Potoldykova, Dmitry V. Enikeev, Tatiana V. Butkova, Liudmila I. Kulikova, Kristina A. Malsagova, Vladimir R. Rudnev, Denis V. Petrovskiy, Alexander A. Izotov, Anna L. Kaysheva

“…Expensive renal replacement therapy options, such as dialysis or kidney transplant, are required for end-stage kidney disease. …”
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Performance evaluation of the Qiagen BK virus ASR on the NeuMoDx system by Amorce Lima, Luciano Soares, Caroline Simmons, Laura Rowe, Dominic Uy, Deanna Becker, Suzane Silbert

“…Background: BK virus (BKV) is the main cause of polyomavirus‐associated nephropathy in kidney transplant patients and hemorrhagic cystitis in bone marrow recipients. …”
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ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data by Shuai Li, Runzhe Li, John R. Lee, John R. Lee, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling

“…Its comprehensive examination of the abundance distribution enables the identification of heterogeneous associations, improving the testing power.ResultsExtensive simulation studies and an application to a real kidney transplant microbiome study demonstrate the improved power of ZINQ-L in detecting true signals while controlling false discovery rates.ConclusionZINQ-L is a zero-inflated quantile-based approach for detecting individual taxa associated with outcomes or exposures in longitudinal microbiome studies, providing a robust and powerful option to improve and complement the existing methods in the field.…”
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Renal transplant recipient and deceased-donor risk profiles at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa: A 9-year review by F van der Schyff, M Barnard, B Ströbele, M de Jager, R Britz, P Gaylard, J Loveland

“…Recipients who were allocated these grafts were characterised, and the Hennepin Transplant Risk Score and the Kidney Transplant Morbidity Index (KTMI) were calculated. …”
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Fever, Haematuria, and Acute Graft Dysfunction in Renal Transplant Recipients Secondary to Adenovirus Infection: Two Case Reports by J. Ramírez, I. C. Bostock, A. Martin-Onraët, S. Calleja, A. Sánchez-Cedillo, L. A. Navarro-Vargas, A. L. Noriega-Salas, O. Martínez-Mijangos, N. O. Uribe-Uribe, M. Vilatoba, B. Gabilondo, L. E. Morales-Buenrostro, J. Alberú

“…We report two cases of adenoviral infection in kidney transplant recipients that presented with different clinical characteristics under similar demographic and posttransplant conditions. …”
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Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Diffuse Skin Thickening as Kaposi Sarcoma Clinical Presentation by Sara Querido, Henrique Silva Sousa, Tiago Assis Pereira, Rita Birne, Patrícia Matias, Cristina Jorge, André Weigert, Teresa Adragão, Margarida Bruges, Domingos Machado

“…So, KS should be considered in differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal bleeding in some kidney transplant patients.…”
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Perioperative management for people with chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis undergoing major surgery: a protocol for a scoping review by Paul E Ronksley, Matthew James, Janine F Farragher, Brenda R Hemmelgarn, Shannon M Ruzycki, Maoliosa Donald, Tyrone G Harrison, Connor O'Rielly, Deirdre McCaughey, Kelly B Zarnke

“…Studies in prevalent kidney transplant patients or patients with acute kidney injury, and studies that report on surgical approaches without consideration of perioperative management strategies, will be excluded. …”
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Ocular changes after simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant by I.V. Vorobyeva, Е.V. Bulava, L.K. Moshetova, A.V. Pinchuk

“…</i> </p> <p> <i><b>Keywords</b>: type 1 diabetes, kidney transplant, pancreas transplant, simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema.…”
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A systematic review on the correlation between COVID-19 and lower urinary tract symptoms by Ashkan Shafigh, Amir Mohammadi-Garebagh, Kavous Shahsavarinia, Sona Tayebi, Ali Mostafaei, Hanieh Salehi-Pourmehr, Sakineh Hajebrahimi

“…The qualitative publications were systematically reviewed separately under the titles of LUTS, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and kidney failures or kidney transplant recipients. The analysis of eligible studies showed a 3.3 % prevalence of LUTS in infected patients (95 % CI: 2.0 % - 5.3 %; Q-value: 1021.397, I2: 97.45 %). …”
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