News tagged with kidney transplant
Study suggests new source of kidneys for transplant
Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too ...
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May 20, 2013 |
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Researchers develop implantable, bioengineered rat kidney (w/ video)
Bioengineered rat kidneys developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators successfully produced urine both in a laboratory apparatus and after being transplanted into living animals. In their ...
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Apr 14, 2013 |
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Robotic transplant an option for obese kidney patients
Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital ...
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May 15, 2013 |
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Risk of death has decreased for children initially treated with dialysis for ESKD
In a study that included more than 20,000 patients, there was a significant decrease in the United States in mortality rates over time among children and adolescents initiating end-stage kidney disease treatment with dialysis ...
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May 05, 2013 |
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Kidney disease mutations found in a genomic blind spot
(Medical Xpress)—Advances in DNA sequencing technology during the past decade have given scientists powerful tools to peer into the genomes of humans and other species. Despite the efficiency and sophistication ...
Genetics
Feb 11, 2013 |
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New approaches in treating complicated childhood polycystic kidney disease
A collaborative team of physician-scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute has developed a new evidence-based, clinical algorithm to help physicians treat ...
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Apr 26, 2013 |
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Researchers link facial structure to kidney disease
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at King's College London's Dental Institute have shown that people with a certain kind of kidney disease have characteristic facial features that may reflect the genetic mutation ...
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Apr 24, 2013 |
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More African-Americans have kidney transplants, but few are from live donors
While the percentage of kidney transplants involving live donors has remained stable for other minority populations, African Americans have seen a decline in live donors even as more of them receive kidney transplants, according ...
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May 08, 2013 |
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Weight-loss surgery seems safe for kidney disease patients
(HealthDay) -- Obese chronic kidney disease patients who undergo surgery to achieve weight loss do not face a particularly dangerous rate of complications as a result, a new study suggests.
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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Poll shows half of Americans would consider donating a kidney to a stranger
Good news for anyone needing a transplant; a new Mayo Clinic survey shows that the public's support for both living and deceased organ donation is increasing. Eighty-four percent of respondents said they would be very or ...
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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'Half-match' bone marrow transplants wipe out sickle cell disease in selected patients
In a preliminary clinical trial, investigators at Johns Hopkins have shown that even partially-matched bone marrow transplants can eliminate sickle cell disease in some patients, ridding them of painful and debilitating symptoms, ...
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Kidney transplanted twice in two weeks
For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to a patient in need was removed and implanted into a new patient, the third individual to have the organ, after it failed in the first transplant recipient. Ray Fearing, ...
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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Faulty gene regulation triggers the kidney disease FSGS
The Clinical Institute of Pathology at the MedUni Vienna has discovered a previously unknown mechanism in the regulation of gene expression that leads to the development of a chronic renal condition known ...
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Mar 20, 2013 |
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Islet transplant may slow progression of atherosclerosis
Minimally invasive islet transplantation for patients with type 1 diabetes achieves insulin independence and reverses the progression of atherosclerosis in the first few years after transplant, according to a University of ...
Diabetes
Jan 28, 2013 |
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Single-port kidney removal through the belly button boosts living-donor satisfaction
In the largest study of its kind, living donors who had a kidney removed through a single port in the navel report higher satisfaction in several key categories, compared to donors who underwent traditional multiple-port ...
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Sep 12, 2012 |
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Kidney transplantation
Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the recipient organ. Living-donor renal transplants are further characterized as genetically related (living-related) or non-related (living-unrelated) transplants, depending on whether a biological relationship exists between the donor and recipient.
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