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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Recent Advances and Clinical Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation.

Charat Thongprayoon, Panupong Hansrivijit, Napat Leeaphorn, Prakrati Acharya, Aldo Torres-Ortiz, Wisit Kaewput, Karthik Kovvuru, Swetha R Kanduri, Tarun Bathini, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Charat ThongprayoonDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Panupong HansrivijitDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pinnacle, Harrisburg, PA 17105, USA.
Napat LeeaphornDepartment of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, MO 64111, USA.
Prakrati AcharyaDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.
Aldo Torres-OrtizDepartment of Medicine, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA.
Wisit KaewputDepartment of Military and Community Medicine, Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0003-2920-7235
Karthik KovvuruDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
Swetha R KanduriDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
Tarun BathiniDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
Wisit CheungpasitpornDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9954-9711
University of Mississippi Medical Center · USMayo Clinic in Arizona · USOchsner Medical Center · USPhramongkutklao Hospital · THSaint Luke's Health System · USTexas Tech University · USUniversity of Arizona · USUPMC Central Pa · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in surgical, immunosuppressive and monitoring protocols have led to the significant improvement of overall one-year kidney allograft outcomes. Nonetheless, there has not been a significant change in long-term kidney allograft outcomes. In fact, chronic and acute antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) and non-immunological complications following kidney transplantation, including multiple incidences of primary kidney disease, as well as complications such as cardiovascular diseases, infections, and malignancy are the major factors that have contributed to the failure of kidney allografts. The use of molecular techniques to enhance histological diagnostics and noninvasive surveillance are what the latest studies in the field of clinical kidney transplant seem to mainly focus upon. Increasingly innovative approaches are being used to discover immunosuppressive methods to overcome critical sensitization, prevent the development of anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies, treat chronic active ABMR, and reduce non-immunological complications following kidney transplantation, such as the recurrence of primary kidney disease and other complications, such as cardiovascular diseases, infections, and malignancy. In the present era of utilizing electronic health records (EHRs), it is strongly believed that big data and artificial intelligence will reshape the research done on kidney transplantation in the near future. In addition, the utilization of telemedicine is increasing, providing benefits such as reaching out to kidney transplant patients in remote areas and helping to make scarce healthcare resources more accessible for kidney transplantation. In this article, we discuss the recent research developments in kidney transplants that may affect long-term allografts, as well as the survival of the patient. The latest developments in living kidney donation are also explored.

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kidney transplantkidney transplantationrenal transplantrenal transplantationtransplantationtransplant recipients

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PMID32331309
PMCPMC7230851
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