Robert Montgomery prepares a pig kidney for transplant into a brain-dead man in New York in July 2023. Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The ...

In a study published this week in JCI Insight, Dr. Ankit Bharat, director of the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, laid out how abnormal cells emerge and work to cause lung damage and ...

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the most common causes of kidney transplant failure. To date, however, no treatment has proven effective in combating this complication in the long term. As ...

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Christian Hinze, senior physician at the MHH Clinic for Kidney and Hypertension Diseases at ...

Antibody-mediated rejection is the most common cause of immune-mediated allograft failure after transplantation. Rejection mediated by antibodies has proven tricky to resolve. Now, researchers at the ...

A significant concern after a person receives an organ transplant from a donor is antibody mediated rejection (AMR)—a process by which antibodies in the recipient can cause their immune systems to ...

A novel approach to organ transplantation allowed patients to wean off anti-rejection drugs after two years, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial presented Monday. The drugs, called ...

Over the weekend, CBS News reported that author and two-time heart transplant recipient Amy Silverstein had died—along with her healthy heart. This inevitability, announced by Silverstein herself in a ...

Analysis of three biomarkers in the urine of kidney transplant recipients can diagnose-and even predict -- transplant rejection, according to results from a clinical trial sponsored by the National ...

Currently, patients who have had a kidney transplant must take a cocktail of pills every day for the rest of their lives. These standard immunosuppressants prevent the immune system from attacking the ...

Scientists have successfully stopped a pig kidney from being rejected by its human recipient. The organ survived for 61 days in the recipient, a 57-year-old brain-dead man in the United States, the ...