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IMAGE: Pittsburgh Steelers Chair in Transplantation and professor of surgery, medicine and immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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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 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. ....

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