Leonardo V. Riella
@LVRiella
Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation @MGHKidneys @HarvardMed. Clinician, scientist & educator. Tweets are my own
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Our take on a promising strategy to prolong allograft survival 👇🏽👇🏽
Mass General Transplant Leonardo V. Riella Orhan Efe AST Community of Transplant Scientists
#AuthorsTake : Prolonged transplant survival in preclinical models: buff.ly/49Q3pbq
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Leonardo V. Riella Mass General Kidneys
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Learn more about our kidney #xenotransplant Mass General Transplant
This short video provides an overview of the rationale, the details about the immunosuppression used, and the precautions taken in our study. Click on the second video in the video section @ leoriella.com
Congratulations to the surgeons of Mass General Surgery Leonardo V. Riella for the groundbreaking achievement rb.gy/zl9wwf.
To stay informed on the advances in xenotransplantation, check AJT's Xenobulletin page - amjtransplant.org/xenobulletin
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Landmark in Transplantation👑
Genetically-edited pig kidney with 69 genomic edits successfully transplanted into a living patient!
Congrats to Dr. Riella, Dr. Kawai, Dr. Elias and the entire team!
Leonardo V. Riella
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“My deepest gratitude goes to our MGH team. For their support and expertise, I can't think of a more dedicated team and I’m grateful to be a part of it.” -Dr. Leo Riella Leonardo V. Riella, Medical Director for Kidney Transplantation, Mass General Kidneys
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📌The Leonardo V. Riella Lab is looking for a postdoc with experience in B cells biology! Mass General Transplant
Mass General Surgery AST Community of Transplant Scientists
A humanized IL-2 mutein expands Tregs and prolongs transplant survival in preclinical models: buff.ly/4a1M9Rc
Leonardo V. Riella Mass General Kidneys
#Immunology #Transplantation
Since first kidney transplant >50 years ago, little has changed in the approach to prevent rejection after transplant. Excited to share our work changing the paradigm by expanding Tregs& allowing immunosuppression reduction jci.org/articles/view/… View details 👇 Mass General Transplant
A humanized IL-2 mutein expands Tregs and prolongs transplant survival in preclinical models jci.org/articles/view/… Leonardo V. Riella
Original Article by Hullekes et al, 'Recurrence of membranous nephropathy after kidney transplantation: A multicenter retrospective cohort study'
Frank Hullekes, MD Leonardo V. Riella
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Recurrent C3 glomerulopathy after kidney transplantation. Leonardo V. Riella sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Hannah Pratt and Paul Foster, our leading kidney transplant nutritionists, describing tx nutritional assessment, including sarcopenia and frailty testing. Mass General Transplant Mass General Kidneys We currently use complementary strategies from subjective to objective measurements.
Great lecture Ayman Al Jurdi, MD FASN Mass General Transplant Mass General Kidneys giving practical tips on the timing of vaccination after kidney transplant. No role for holding MMF before vaccines or delaying vaccination due to belatacept. Rituximab significantly impacts vaccine response: best CD19cells>40/uL