News tagged with donor kidneys
Stop taking steroids: Kidney transplant recipients may not need long-term prednisone
Rapid discontinuation of the immunosuppressive steroid prednisone after a kidney transplant can help prevent serious side effects, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American So ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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For some in need, Facebook is route to new kidney
(AP) -- Here's another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney.
Jan 01, 2012 |
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Surgeons perform first 'ex vivo' lung transplants
A 59-year-old woman from upstate New York and a 60-year-old woman from the New York metro area were the first patients in New York state and among the first in the United States to receive transplanted lungs that were assessed ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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An earlier diagnosis to avoid kidney transplants
An analytical technique using high brilliance infrared light produced by the SOLEIL synchrotron has been developed by teams from the CNRS, Paris Sud University, Tenon Hospital in Paris, and the Stoke-on-Trent ...
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Making sure kidney donors fare as well as promised
(AP) -- More and more people are donating one of their kidneys to a loved one, a friend, even a stranger, and now a move is on to make sure those donors really fare as well as they're promised.
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Should doctors encourage people to donate a kidney to a stranger?
With three people on the kidney transplant list dying in the UK every day, should doctors encourage their patients to put themselves at risk for the benefit of others? Two experts debate the issue in the British Medical Journal ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Racial inequalities exist for kids with kidney disease
Among children with kidney disease, certain races are less likely to get kidney transplants and are more likely to die than other races, according to two studies from Emory University that were presented during the American ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Never too old to donate a kidney?
People over age 70 years of age can safely donate a kidney, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results provide good news for patients ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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African-Americans more likely to donate kidney to family member
Family matters, especially when it comes to African-Americans and living kidney donation. In a study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, researchers found that African-Americans donate almost exclusively to family ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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It's time to explore 'regulated paid provision' for live kidneys
It is time to explore how to pay for live kidneys in the UK under strict rules that guarantee access and equity, argues Sue Rabbitt Roff from Dundee University in a personal view article published on bmj.com.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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National policy change reduces racial disparity in kidney transplants
A national transplant policy change designed to give African-American patients greater access to donor kidneys has sliced in half the racial disparities that have long characterized the allocation of lifesaving organs, new ...
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Treatment provides dramatic survival benefit for hard-to-match kidney transplant patients
Hard-to-match kidney transplant candidates who receive a treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Elimination of national kidney allocation policy improves minority access to transplants
A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that since the elimination of the kidney allocation priority for matching for HLA-B on May 7, 2003, access to kidney transplantation for minorities has be ...
Jul 21, 2011 |
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Genes, not race, determine donor kidney survival
A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys ...
May 10, 2011 |
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Medical center performs rare, double living donor organ transplant
Transplant surgeons at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently performed their first simultaneous, dual living donor organ transplant on a single recipient. The recipient, a 60-year-old man from ...
May 03, 2011 |
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