Kidney transplantation offers life-extending treatment for patients with end-stage renal disease, yet long-term risks of graft loss and death persist. Traditional prediction models using only baseline data often fail to capture patients’ evolving health…
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Animal-to-human transplants – or xenotransplantation – is raising hopes among patients who can’t obtain healthy organs from other humans.
Surgeons in March performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant from a pig to a living…
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Eastern Nephrology Associates is a nephrology practice in eastern North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina that comprises kidney specialists who deliver nephrology, kidney dialysis, kidney transplant and hypertension care in 14 offices, more than…
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Value-based kidney care company Strive Health secured $166 million in Series C funding, which it will use to expand into new markets, the company announced Wednesday.
Denver, Colorado-based Strive Health works with payers (including commercial,…
A recent study in Nature Medicine, entitled “An automated histological classification system for precision diagnostics of kidney allografts,” has showcased the efforts of a group of researchers who have developed an automated system that…
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