Renal news roundup from AKF

Researchers have created a technique for freezing and successfully transplanting a pig's kidney after 10 days of storage, potentially transforming the fiel...

An Alabama woman who had a pig kidney for a record 130 days has returned to dialysis after her body began rejecting the organ. Towana Looney, who did not qualif...

Healionics has received a United States patent for its STARgraft vascular technology, which aims to improve bloodstream access for kidney failure patients under...

Mobile apps, virtual nursing, electronic pill boxes and other digital health interventions may encourage medication adherence among kidney transplant recipients...

A pooled analysis found that finerenone reduced risk for new-onset atrial fibrillation (AFib) or flutter in individuals who have chronic kidney disease and type...

A major retrospective study in JAMA Network Open found COVID-19 infections in children and adolescents were linked to a higher risk of adverse post-acute kidney...

At a debate about solo home hemodialysis at the Annual Dialysis Conference in March, clinicians discussed the real-life experiences of patients doing HHD at hom...

A comprehensive analysis of 63,351 kidney transplant recipients from 250 United States transplant centers found that higher ambient heat exposure is associated ...

Andrew Schukraft, now 26, was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) during a routine sports physical at the age of 16, which revealed he had only 5% kidney func...