Publication
Title
Recent advances in kidney transplantation: a viewpoint from the Descartes advisory board
Author
Abstract
Transplantation medicine is a rapidly evolving field. Keeping afloat of the published literature to offer the best clinical care to our patients is a daunting task. As part of its educational mission, the Descartes advisory board identified seven topics in kidney transplantation where there has been substantial progresses over the last years: kidney allocation within Eurotransplant; kidney exchange strategies; kidney machine perfusion strategies; the changing landscape of anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies; the new immunosuppressive drugs in the pipeline; strategies for immunosuppression minimization; and the continuous enigma of focal segmental glomerular sclerosis recurrence after transplantation. Here, we have summarized the main knowledge and the main challenges of these seven topics with the aim to provide transplant professionals at large with key bullet points to successfully understand these new concepts.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation. - Berlin
Publication
Oxford : Oxford univ press , 2018
ISSN
0931-0509
DOI
10.1093/NDT/GFX365
Volume/pages
33 :10 (2018) , p. 1699-1707
ISI
000446859700004
Pubmed ID
29342289
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
Full text (open access)
UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
Record
Identifier
Creation 09.11.2018
Last edited 09.10.2023
To cite this reference