The impact of induction therapy in low-immunological risk kidney transplant recipients regardless of HLA matching.

Background: Induction agents have proved to reduce the rate of acute rejection (AR) in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) without improving long-term graft and patient survival (PS).

Objective: This study evaluates the utility of induction therapy in low immunological risk KTRs regardless of donor-to-recipient HLA matching.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the records of 218 patients undergoing kidney transplantation (KT).

Age and multimorbidities as poor prognostic factors for COVID-19 in hemodialysis: a Lebanese national study.

Background: Hemodialysis patients with COVID-19 have been reported to be at higher risk for death than the general population. Several prognostic factors have been identified in the studies from Asian, European or American countries. This is the first national Lebanese study assessing the factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 mortality in hemodialysis patients.

Sex matching plays a role in outcome of kidney transplant.

Objectives: The effect of sex matching between donors and recipients was studied in 135 kidney transplant operations performed in our center between December 1998 and December 2007.

Materials And Methods: Patients were divided into 4 groups: group 1 (63 patients, male donor-male recipient), group 2 (25 patients, male donor-female recipient), group 3 (37 patients, female donor-male recipient), and group 4 (10 patients, female donor-female recipient). Except for donor age, recipient body mass index and donor-recipient HLA AB-DR matching, recipient, and donor demographics, and the immunosuppression were comparable in all groups.