The incidence of elderly patients with ESRD is increasing, as is the number of elderly listed for kidney transplantation. In fact, we ...

There has been talk about using prograf once a day for quite sometime now.  When it is used once a day its a tacrolimus prolonged use and it...

A recent review in Nature Nephrology discuses this important concept.  A large study out of Finland is discussed in this review and how the ...

Transplant Tourism does still continue and many patients continue to get kidneys from other countries where it could be commercial possible....

http://allergynotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/intravenous-immune-globulin-ivig-in.html

Post transplant neutropenia has many causes.  Etiology is usually medications, infections, cancer. In a retrospective evaluation, 28% neutro...

An entity often not talked about and not much out there in the literature. a nice review below by Dr.Krish . Hematuria post transplant ...

Donor specific alloantibody producing plasma cells might be a good target for proteosomic inhibition by bortezomib. Bortezomib has some data...

Here are a list of factors that contribute to post kidney transplant development of Hypertension. 1. Pre existing HTN 2. Body Mass Index 3. ...

Male fertility has not been studied in detail in transplantation.  Does immunosuppresive therapy have impact on sperm production or motility...

Kidney Transplantation was rare in HIV+ cases few years ago and now many centers have developed protocols that have allowed this to happen w...

Two landmark papers have discussed using potential agents for potential patients who are on wait list for a kidney but have a very high PRA ...

We did another session of role playing with the fellows and transplant medicine Each fellow was assigned a "cell" that is an activ...

Transplant Glomerulopathy(TG) is a common biopsy finding that we see in kidney biopsies for proteinuria workup. The causes of TG are usually...

A nice letter to the editor in NEJM this week Sept 2010 reflects on the Kidney Paired Donation program from San Antonio, Texas. KPD, which m...

A recent article in AJT reports the use of Interferon Gamma as a salvage and additional therapy for disseminated fungal infections in kidney...

Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) View more presentations from Nephrology, NSLIJ .

A lot of transplant patients do so well and require very minimal amounts of medications. What is the magic recipe for that? Perhaps it is T ...

http://nephrohug.com/2010/08/16/greffe-des-deux-reins/ Check out the above French Blog on this topic from Nephrohug.

We have asked this question many times in conferences and especially when a pediatric kidney gets put in an adult recipient? Does it matter ...