C3d-positive donor-specific antibodies have a role in pretransplant risk stratification of cross-match-positive HLA-incompatible renal transplantation: United Kingdom multicentre study.

Anti-HLA-antibody characteristics aid to risk-stratify patients and improve long-term renal graft outcomes. Complement activation by donor-specific antibody (DSA) is an important characteristic that may determine renal allograft outcome. There is heterogeneity in graft outcomes within the moderate to high immunological risk cases (cross-match-positive).

Prolonged survival after disseminated Rhinocladiella infection treated with surgical excision and posaconazole.

Cerebral abscess due to pigmented molds is a rare but usually fatal infection occasionally seen in transplant recipients. A 67-year-old man of Iraqi origin underwent a deceased donation renal transplant for renal failure and 2 months later was diagnosed with an abscess in the left posterior frontal lobe of his brain. Subsequent biopsy proved this to be due to the mold Rhinocladiella mackenziei.

Impact of the new fast track kidney allocation scheme for declined kidneys in the United Kingdom.

Introduction: A "new" fast track kidney allocation scheme (FTKAS) was implemented in the UK in 2012 for offering of previously declined kidneys. We evaluated the impact of the FTKAS in utilization of declined kidneys and outcome.

Methods: Adult renal transplant centers were surveyed.