Transplantation Tag

Findings presented at the American Society of Nephrology's Kidney Week 2018 suggest that gout, a risk factor for serious poor health outcomes, is much more common among solid organ transplant recipients than in the general U.S. population. Using 2016 claims data, researchers found that the prevalence of active gout was 11.3% among solid organ transplant recipients - particularly kidney and heart transplant recipients -  compared...

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Penn Medicine launched an innovative clinical trial in 2016 to test the effect of transplanting kidneys from donors with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) into patients currently on the kidney waitlist who do not have the virus and would opt in to receive these otherwise unused organs. After transplantation, recipients were treated with an antiviral therapy in an effort to cure the virus. To date, 20 patients have...

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