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Bruce Kaplan is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in the fields of surgery, transplantation, public health, environmental and occupational health, hepatology, and epidemiology. The scientist's work covers a broad spectrum of transplantation-related topics, including renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, organ donation and transplantation, liver disease and transplantation, transplantation methods and outcomes, neurological complications and syndromes, as well as liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Recent publications by Bruce Kaplan include:

  • An overview of frailty in kidney transplantation: measurement, management and future considerations (2020), Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Survival Benefit of Living-Donor Liver Transplant (2022), JAMA Surgery
  • Addressing sex-based disparities in solid organ transplantation in the United States - a conference report (2023), American Journal of Transplantation
  • Pain expectancy, prevalence, severity, and patterns following donor nephrectomy: Findings from the KDOC Study (2020), American Journal of Transplantation
  • A Primer on Machine Learning (2020), Transplantation

The research output of Kaplan is frequently published in several venues, with the most common being the American Journal of Transplantation, followed by Transplantation, the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Clinical Transplantation, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Collaborations are notable in Kaplan's career, with frequent coauthors including Jesse D. Schold, Elizabeth A. Pomfret, John Malamon, James J. Pomposelli, and Susana Arrigain. These collaborations have contributed to a wide range of publications across transplantation science and related medical fields.

Best Publications

  • Lack of Improvement in Renal Allograft Survival Despite a Marked Decrease in Acute Rejection Rates Over the Most Recent Era

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Jesse D. Schold;Titte R. Srinivas;Bruce Kaplan

  • Survival in Recipients of Marginal Cadaveric Donor Kidneys Compared with Other Recipients and Wait-Listed Transplant Candidates

    Akinlolu O. Ojo;Julie A. Hanson;Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Chike N. Okechukwu

  • Waiting time on dialysis as the strongest modifiable risk factor for renal transplant: Outcomes a paired donor kidney analysis

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Bruce Kaplan

  • Effect of waiting time on renal transplant outcome

    Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Friedrich K. Port;Akinlolu O. Ojo;Steven M. Rudich

  • Long-term renal allograft survival: have we made significant progress or is it time to rethink our analytic and therapeutic strategies?

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Jesse D. Schold;Bruce Kaplan

  • Antibody-mediated microcirculation injury is the major cause of late kidney transplant failure.

    G. Einecke;B. Sis;J. Reeve;M. Mengel

  • THE IMPACT OF BODY MASS INDEX ON RENAL TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES: A SIGNIFICANT INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR GRAFT FAILURE AND PATIENT DEATH

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Julie A. Arndorfer;Bruce Kaplan

  • Mycophenolate mofetil reduces late renal allograft loss independent of acute rejection.

    Akinlolu O. Ojo;Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Julie A. Hanson;Alan B. Leichtman

  • Endothelial gene expression in kidney transplants with alloantibody indicates antibody-mediated damage despite lack of C4d staining.

    Banu Sis;Gian S. Jhangri;Sakarn Bunnag;Kara Allanach

  • Decreased renal function is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular death after renal transplantation.

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Rajendra Baliga;Bruce Kaplan

  • Survival Benefit of Solid-Organ Transplant in the United States

    Abbas Rana;Angelika Gruessner;Vatche G. Agopian;Zain Khalpey

  • The impact of simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation on long-term patient survival.

    Akinlolu O. Ojo;Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Julie A. Hanson;Alan Leichtman

  • Kidney transplantation halts cardiovascular disease progression in patients with end-stage renal disease.

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Jesse D. Schold;Titte R. Srinivas;Alan Reed

  • Therapeutic drug monitoring of mycophenolate mofetil in transplantation.

    Teun van Gelder;Yann Le Meur;Leslie M Shaw;Michael Oellerich

  • Death after graft loss: an important late study endpoint in kidney transplantation.

    Bruce Kaplan;Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche

  • Strategies for the management of adverse events associated with mTOR inhibitors

    Bruce Kaplan;Yasir Qazi;Jason R. Wellen

  • Survival Improvement among Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease: Trends over Time for Transplant Recipients and Wait-Listed Patients

    Herwig Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Akinlolu O. Ojo;Friedrich K. Port;Julie A. Arndorfer

  • Increased impact of acute rejection on chronic allograft failure in recent era.

    H. U. Meier-Kriesche;A. O. Ojo;J. A. Hanson;D. M. Cibrik

  • Increasing live donor kidney transplantation: A randomized controlled trial of a home-based educational intervention

    J. R. Rodrigue;D. L. Cornell;J. K. Lin;B. Kaplan

  • Exponentially increased risk of infectious death in older renal transplant recipients.

    Herwig-Ulf Meier-Kriesche;Akinlolu O. Ojo;Julie A. Hanson;Bruce Kaplan

Frequent Co-Authors

Akinlolu O. Ojo
Akinlolu O. Ojo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip F. Halloran
Philip F. Halloran University of Alberta
Michael Abecassis
Michael Abecassis University of Arizona
Leslie M. Shaw
Leslie M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Friedrich K. Port
Friedrich K. Port University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Barry D. Kahan
Barry D. Kahan The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Mengel
Michael Mengel University of Alberta
Dorry L. Segev
Dorry L. Segev Johns Hopkins University
Michael J. Clare-Salzler
Michael J. Clare-Salzler University of Florida
Lawrence Y. Agodoa
Lawrence Y. Agodoa National Institutes of Health

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