Transplant nurse practitioner Sonya Lopez reflects on her 30-year career with CHOP and the Pediatric Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Program’s milestone of 500 transplants.

CHOP credits the milestone in part to its involvement with the National Kidney Registry through a partnership with the Penn Medicine, which provides CHOP access to a large pool of potential living kidney donors.

Our Kidney Transplant Program recently achieved an important milestone: 500 kidney transplants! Learn more about kidney transplantation here.

A new study used electronic health record data to identify risk factors associated with kidney function decline in those with pediatric chronic kidney disease.

Dr. Sandra Amaral, attending physician in CHOP’s Division of Nephrology and the Kidney Transplant and Dialysis Program, led a study recently published in JAMA that found an association between dialysis facility ownership and access to the waiting list and transplant in pediatric patients with end-stage kidney disease in the United States. The findings were covered in this Kaiser Health News article.  

Through the National Kidney Registry, CHOP has access to a large pool of potential living kidney donors, which is optimal for a child’s long-term health.

Reducing a transplant patient’s risk of infection is very important. Here are tips about hygiene and vaccines.

Information about the importance and timing of vaccines before and after a solid organ transplant.

Read heartwarming transplant stories and the astonishing transformation transplant patients undergo.

Now that school is back in session, it is very important to continue to eat renal-friendly foods when away from home.