August 5, 2024- Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced a new pre-transplant risk assessment assay via its CLIA laboratory in Fishers, Ind., that helps assess risk of early acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients, providing data that may inform a more personalized approach to post-transplant immunosuppression management.
Standardized immunosuppression protocols based on broad clinical and demographic features are a routine part of care for most of the 250,000 Americans living with a kidney transplant. While effective in reducing overall rates of rejection, such protocols can also result in over-immunosuppression, which may lead to poor long-term outcomes; patient complications such as toxicity, cancer and serious infections; and considerable costs to the healthcare system.