Kidney Intelligence

11/13/2025

Join us this Saturday at 9am at Plantation Central Park for Kidney Walk Fort Lauderdale 2025! 🧡

11/13/2025

The Expand Transplant Trial has begun at NYU Langone!

A groundbreaking step in transplant medicine!
The first clinical trial (the EXPAND study) using a gene-edited pig kidney (the “UKidney”) has begun at NYU Langone Health, offering new hope for patients with end-stage kidney disease. The procedure marks the ninth xenotransplant surgery performed by NYU Langone Transplant Institute and orchestrated by Dr. Robert Montgomery, who has spent much of his career studying innovative approaches to expanding the organ supply.
This experimental kidney has 10 genetic edits; 6 human genes added to improve acceptance and 4 pig genes inactivated to reduce rejection and overgrowth. No details about the patient who received this latest transplant have been released at this point.
If successful, this could one day end the organ shortage crisis, giving patients an alternative to life on dialysis.
The study will follow recipients closely for safety, kidney function, and quality of life over 24 weeks, and then long-term for life.
It’s still early, but it’s a remarkable milestone toward an amazing future in transplantation.

12/02/2024

As Dr. Carlos Bejar’s ends the month of November as the University of Miami Nephrology Attending, he takes a quick selfie with these three UM residents he spent the month with and whom he describes as outstanding! ⭐️ Maybe future nephrologists! 🧡💚

11/25/2023

When Jon Montgomery needed a kidney and a liver transplant, his sons offered to be his donors — now they're grateful to be able to spend the holiday together. Both brothers emphasize that their dad did not ask them for anything — becoming a donor was something they wanted to do.
“There was no question," Christopher, a 24-year-old dental student at the University of Pittsburgh. "I want to keep him around as long as I can...I want him to know my children. I couldn't imagine life without him."
Both brothers are thankful that they matched their dad.
A life-saving double transplant was performed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
“They're a very remarkable family,” says Dr. Abhinav Humar, Chief of Transplantation at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “A very close-knit family where the sons are obviously willing to do anything for their father.”
A lot to be thankful for!

09/03/2023

Serbia's Borisa Simanic lost a kidney after a blow during World Cup. Even though it was initially announced that Simanic's health was not put at risk, new information indicates that the player ultimately lost one of his kidneys after complications from a blow he received during a game against South Sudan.

11/15/2022

Frances, a patient of Dr.Gabriel Valle, is doing AMAZING on Peritoneal Dialysis. Doesn’t hurt to have a wife like, Barbara, always enthusiastic and positive! If you’re interested in dialysis at home, come find out what makes our award winning program so successful. For an appointment call 954-771-3929. Offices in Fort Lauderdale, Plantation, and Delray Beach. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11/11/2022

Grateful for our veterans today and everyday. Happy Veterans’ Day! 🇺🇸

11/09/2022

A new smartphone-enabled test provides people at risk of chronic kidney disease the ability to monitor their kidney health from the comfort of their own homes.
The Minuteful Kidney test uses a smartphone camera to look for the presence of a specific protein in the urine called albumin.
This is the first time the FDA has granted clearance for this kind of smartphone-enabled test, also known as the albumin to creatinine ratio. (uACR)

08/26/2022

Actress and kidney transplant recipient, Sarah Hyland, married boyfriend, actor Wells Adams, in a garden ceremony in Santa Barbara this week. Sarah wore two different Vera Wang gowns during the event, which had been delayed several years due to Covid concerns. Jesse Tyler Ferguson — who played Sarah’s uncle Mitch-officiated at the wedding. Wishing much happiness to the beautiful couple!