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Date Time Blood Test for Kidney Rejection Suggests New Treatment PITTSBURGH– Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection with a lead time of about eight months, which could give doctors an opportunity to intervene and prevent permanent damage. These results, published today in Science Translational Medicine, not only identify a warning signal that something is going wrong, but also suggest an existing medication that could be given to these patients to right the course of their long-term recovery....
E-Mail IMAGE: Pittsburgh Steelers Chair in Transplantation and professor of surgery, medicine and immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine view more Credit: Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24, 2021 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a blood biomarker that predicts kidney transplant rejection with a lead time of about eight months, which could give doctors an opportunity to intervene and prevent permanent damage. These results, published today in Science Transl...