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Performance of the iBox Prognostication System in African American Kidney Transplant Recipients

Key takeaways

The iBox is a calculator that predicts how long a transplanted kidney will keep working. This study checked how well it performs in African American transplant recipients, a group that has worse transplant outcomes on average. The study looked back at patient records rather than testing anything, so it shows how well the tool matched what happened, not why. If the tool is less accurate in this group, it could shape who gets closer follow-up.

Who did this work

Agathe Truchot (Inserm) · Yannis Lombardi (Inserm) · Marc Raynaud (Inserm) · Olivier Aubert (Université Paris Cité) · Gillian Divard (Inserm) · Thibaut Thalamas (Inserm) · Brad C. Astor (University of Wisconsin–Madison) · Didier A. Mandelbrot (University of Wisconsin–Madison) · Sandesh Parajuli (University of Wisconsin–Madison) · Kenneth A. Newell (Emory University) · Christian P. Larsen (Emory University) · Geeta Karadkhele (Emory University)

Source

Paper · OpenAlex, Kidney disease concept sweep (verified C2778653478) · 2026-09-10
https://doi.org/10.1681/asn.0000001247