(HealthDay)—A trained patient navigator helps to increase access to the transplant waitlist for disadvantaged patients with kidney failure who need a longer time to get through the transplant evaluation process, according ...
Mar 27, 2018
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In a recent study, a trained navigator who provided guidance to disadvantaged patients with kidney failure helped increase access to the transplant waitlist among patients who needed a longer time to get through the transplant ...
Mar 26, 2018
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In a small study, doctors at Johns Hopkins have successfully transplanted 10 hepatitis C-infected kidneys into patients without hepatitis C and prevented the patients from becoming infected by hepatitis C. The success of ...
Mar 5, 2018
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A study being conducted at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo State, Brazil, assembles efforts in clinical and basic research on childhood nephrotic syndrome, focusing on kidney transplant patients. ...
Feb 28, 2018
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Chronic kidney disease causes irreversible deterioration in renal function, often requiring dialysis or transplant surgery.
Feb 22, 2018
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Vanderbilt researchers are comparing two types of weight-loss options to determine which is the most effective in helping obese patients reach a more ideal weight before undergoing kidney transplant surgery.
Feb 9, 2018
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A landmark study has narrowed down the genes that best predict long term kidney transplant success, to a small stretch of DNA.
Feb 2, 2018
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Despite efforts over the past two decades to increase the number of black and Hispanic patients receiving kidney transplants from related or unrelated living donors, these racial/ethnic minority patients are still much less ...
Jan 23, 2018
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The ability to quantify the extent of kidney damage and predict the life remaining in the kidney, using an image obtained at the time when a patient visits the hospital for a kidney biopsy, now is possible using a computer ...
Jan 11, 2018
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(HealthDay)—In children who receive a non-kidney solid organ transplant, acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in the first year after surgery and is associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according ...
Jan 9, 2018
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