WHICH TRANSPLANTED ORGAN HAD THE FIRST EVER CONSENSUS CLASSIFICATION ON ORGAN REJECTION AND PATHOLOGY ? Pancreas   0 (0%) Kidney...

Geriatric nephrology is on the rise as the baby boomers age, and more and more patients will encounter nephrologists. Transplant nephrology ...

Many decades ago, the first human kidney transplant was done at BWH Hospital and ever since then multiple organ transplantations have happen...

Immunology is evolving rapidly in the medical field. A recent article of mention is the NEJM Nov 2011 issue that talks about the inducible ...

TIM is "T cell immunoglobulin mucin". They are molecules that have shown to play a major role in immune responses. TIM 1,3 and 4 a...

Welcome to the blog sphere! American Society of Transplantation starts a blog for interaction with their members! http://members.a-s-t.or...

The complications that can occur with use of sirolimus are not that benign. The agent is good in certain cases but not all. Besides the know...

TIM-1 is a costimulatory molecule that regulates immune responses by modulating CD4 +   T cell effector differentiation. A recent mice study...

MOHAN FOUNDATION Most physicians know, transplants just don’t begin or end with one person’s death. A whole mechanism has to come into...

Rituximab might be working in a non B cell mediated manner in FSGS recurrence post transplant. A new study by Fornoni et al showed this in ...

Its seems like tacrolimus gets in trouble with lot of things.  Since its a substrate for the P450 system, it is good to monitor with any n...

T regulatory cells have now come out and made a splash in the transplant world but also in the immunology and glomerular disease world.  T...

please check out www.transplantnow.com . This is similar to Nephrology now and compiles latest articles in Transplantation from major journ...

Dendritic cells(DC) are traditional thought to be anti infectious and a link between the innate and the adaptive immune system.  A nice br...

The degree of cardiac testing for potential transplant recipients is highly variable and depends on the practices of the particular transpla...

CKD has been associated with IF/TA ( interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy) and progressive organ function loss. Micro RNAs or miRNAs ar...

Dendritic Cells(DC) are important players in transplant immunology. Which one of these syndromes is associated with loss of IL-12 producing...

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Proposed Kidney Transplant Rules Favor Younger, Healthier Recipients Kidney transplants would be given preferentially to younger, healthier...

TRANSPLATATION IN THE ELDERLY - TOO OLD TO TRANSPLANT?? This was a nice discussion by Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, MD from UCLA during the Medic...