Recent advances in kidney transplantation: a viewpoint from the Descartes advisory board.

ABSTRACT: Transplantation medicine is a rapidly evolving field. Keeping afloat of the published literature to offer the best clinical care to our patients is a daunting task. As part of its educational mission, the Descartes advisory board identified seven topics in kidney transplantation where there has been substantial progresses over the last years: kidney allocation within Eurotransplant; kidney exchange strategies; kidney machine perfusion strategies; the changing landscape of anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies; the new immunosuppressive drugs in the pipeline; strategies for immunosuppression minimization; and the continuous enigma of focal segmental glomerular sclerosis recurrence after transplantation. Here, we have summarized the main knowledge and the main challenges of these sev

SUBMITTER: Abramowicz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6168736 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature