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Kidney Transplant Immunology

Kidney transplantation involves the introduction of foreign antigens that are recognized by the patient's immune system.  For this reason immunosuppression is required to prevent rejection. Cross matching is required to determine if a transplant is compatible. HLA testing informs the long term prognosis of the allograft. Matching People may think the donor kidney

By |2024-05-15T12:13:35+00:00May 15th, 2024|Kidney Transplant|0 Comments
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How not to mess up a Kidney Transplant

Community Hospital Management of Renal Transplant Patients Kidney transplants are good.  Messing up a kidney transplant is bad.  As a nephrologist at a non transplant hospital this is an issue I fear.  Maybe I fear it too much, more than necessary, but I fear it nonetheless.  Here is my opinion. Going to break

By |2023-12-27T23:10:22+00:00February 1st, 2023|Kidney Transplant|0 Comments
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About Dr. Cronin

Brian Cronin is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology and has been designated by the American Society of Hypertension as a Clinical Specialist in Hypertension in 2005, redesignated in 2015.

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