Cleveland Clinic’s Transplant Center will soon begin offering kidney transplantation from deceased donors with HIV to patients with end-stage kidney disease who are HIV positive.
Access to Kidney Transplantation Unchanged Over 20 Years
Despite numerous policy changes and interventions in the last two decades, significant challenges to accessing kidney transplant remain.
Long-Term Successes in Kidney Transplantation
A study of kidney transplant recipients reveals insights into clinical conditions that can evolve over the long term and offers a comparison to transplant outcomes today.
First Kidney Transplant Performed in the World Using Single-Port Robot
Cleveland Clinic is the first hospital in the world to successfully perform a robotic single-port kidney transplant, which enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through one small abdominal incision.
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Kidney Transplants: Focus on Continuity of Care Improves Outcomes and Experience
An enhanced level of care, from the patient’s first evaluation to post-discharge follow-ups, is key to successful kidney transplant outcomes.
Enhanced Level of Care Before and After Transplantation Critical for Transplant Success
Maintaining better-than-average length of stay and readmission rates takes an enhanced level of care. Kidney Transplant Program Surgical Director Alvin Wee, MD, explains.
African-Americans Still More Likely Than Caucasian-Americans to Receive Kidney Transplants from Deceased, Rather than Living Donors
Study looked at kidney transplant outcomes, stratified by race and ethnicity, between 2003 to 2013. Researchers hoped to find modifiable factors that could result in better outcomes for African-American kidney transplant recipients.
Kidney Transplant Population Study Reveals Dramatic Outcome Changes
A study of the national kidney transplant candidate population illustrates dramatic changes in outcomes, making the findings important in considering prospective policy development, decision-making and interventions.
Transfer of Knowledge in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
Alvin Wee, MD, Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant Program, discusses the immensely gratifying process of setting up affiliate transplant programs.
What’s New in Kidney Transplantation
Much has improved in renal transplantation over the past 20 years, helping patients directly and by extending the life of their transplanted organs.