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A kidney transplant is an operation where a healthy kidney from one person (the donor) is transferred to a person who has little or no kidney function (the recipient).

Scottish biotech Invizius seeks Series A funding for breakthrough in dialysis treatment

Scottish biotech firm Invizius, which has developed a technology aimed at reducing long-term side effects and health complications from dialysis treatment, is seeking Series A funding after undergoing promising safety trials.

22 Jun 2020

C-Path's Transplant Therapeutics Consortium receives positive FDA response for its Letter of Intent

Critical Path Institute announced today that its Transplant Therapeutics Consortium has received a positive response to its Letter of Intent from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration detailing the decision to accept the Composite Biomarker Panel (iBox Scoring System) into the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Biomarker Qualification Program.

17 Jun 2020

Cell signaling pathway could treat chronic kidney disease and other medical conditions

Scientists have discovered an important cell signaling pathway in the kidney which if stopped, could hold the key to treating chronic kidney disease as well as other deadly conditions, including heart attack and stroke.

16 Jun 2020

Study shows safety of new cell therapy approaches for kidney transplant recipients

A large international study coordinated by University Hospital Regensburg and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has demonstrated the safety of new cell therapy approaches for use in kidney transplant recipients.

10 Jun 2020

High mortality rates among coronavirus-positive dialysis patients

Spain is one of the European countries besides the UK and Italy that was particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic in March.

5 Jun 2020

European database investigates COVID-19 outcomes in patients with kidney failure

Experience throughout the world, including in Europe, shows that advanced age is the most important risk factor for death in COVID-19: people aged over 70 years are over 10 times more likely to die compared to those aged below 50.

5 Jun 2020

Study finds very low level of SARS-CoV-2 in two San Francisco Bay areas

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in May 2020 reports a very low prevalence of antibodies in two separate populations living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

26 May 2020

Kidney transplants: Volume of services correlated with quality of treatment outcomes

In complex operations, is there a correlation between the volume of service provided per hospital and the quality of the treatment outcome? This question is addressed in eight commissions on minimum volumes that the Federal Joint Committee has issued to the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care.

22 May 2020

Fewer traffic collisions during shutdown means longer waits for organ donations

On Day Two of the San Francisco Bay Area's stay-at-home orders in March, Nohemi Jimenez got into her car in San Pablo, California, waved goodbye to her 3-year-old son and drove to her regular Wednesday dialysis appointment.

19 May 2020

FMT improves clinical outcomes in extremely ill patients with drug-resistant bacteria

Transferring fecal matter from the digestive systems of healthy donors to extremely ill patients who had previously been infected with drug-resistant bacteria resulted in shorter hospital stays, fewer bloodstream infections and infections that were easier to treat, according to research that was selected for presentation at Digestive Disease Week 2020.

30 Apr 2020

CRISPR may help in kidney-transplants by detecting viruses

An exciting new study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering in April 2020 reports excellent results with a new test for two common viruses that infect kidney transplant patients. The levels of these viruses shoot up during the acute phase of rejection.

13 Apr 2020

ERA-EDTA creates European database of dialysis, transplanted patients with COVID-19

The ERA-EDTA has created a European database that collects granular individual data of dialysis patients and transplanted patients with COVID-19.

9 Apr 2020

Using computer software to optimize treatment for diabetic kidney diseases

Diabetic kidney diseases are the main cause of kidney failure in industrialized countries. An international, EU-funded R&D project - which is being headed by the Medical University of Innsbruck, and involves collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna and international partners - is being implemented with the aim of using computer software to provide personalized predictions of the disease's progression and bring about improvements in individuals' responses to treatment.

9 Apr 2020

Analysis of causative protein genotype can help predict Alport syndrome severity

A Japanese research team has successfully developed a system to predict the severity of Alport syndrome, a serious hereditary kidney disease that occurs in about 1 out of 5,000 people in the US. Patients with Alport syndrome have abnormalities in the causative protein, type IV collagen, that often lead to chronic renal dysfunction requiring dialysis.

6 Apr 2020

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Scottish biotech Invizius seeks Series A funding for breakthrough in dialysis treatment

C-Path's Transplant Therapeutics Consortium receives positive FDA response for its Letter of Intent

Cell signaling pathway could treat chronic kidney disease and other medical conditions

Study shows safety of new cell therapy approaches for kidney transplant recipients

High mortality rates among coronavirus-positive dialysis patients

European database investigates COVID-19 outcomes in patients with kidney failure

Study finds very low level of SARS-CoV-2 in two San Francisco Bay areas

Kidney transplants: Volume of services correlated with quality of treatment outcomes

Fewer traffic collisions during shutdown means longer waits for organ donations

FMT improves clinical outcomes in extremely ill patients with drug-resistant bacteria

CRISPR may help in kidney-transplants by detecting viruses

ERA-EDTA creates European database of dialysis, transplanted patients with COVID-19

Using computer software to optimize treatment for diabetic kidney diseases

Analysis of causative protein genotype can help predict Alport syndrome severity

Preserving kidney function in patients with diabetic kidney disease

Organs from hepatitis C-infected donors benefit many kidney patients

Study: Survival rates have improved after kidney transplantation during childhood

UC research could help identify organ donors at risk of developing kidney disease

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