Nephrology

Mid-January 2022, the 5,000th kidney transplant took place at UZ Leuven. Prof. dr. Dirk Kuypers, head of the nephrology department, looks back on a couple of historic innovations that resulted in the excellence of the Leuven kidney transplant care programme.

Researchers involved in a European multicentre study led by Leuven-based nephrologists identified a new biomarker which, via a simple blood test, can demonstrate much earlier which patients are showing signs of rejection by antibodies following a kidney transplant.