Sentences with phrase «deceased donor kidneys»

Upon receiving deceased donor kidneys from African Americans with two APOL1 renal - risk variants, transplant recipients experience earlier allograft failure.

«Patients on dialysis are living longer and equally positive, survival rates have steadily improved among recipients of both living and deceased donor kidney transplants.»

As Goldberg said in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about the HCV kidney transplant trial mentioned above, «last year, about 12,000 people in the U.S. got a deceased donor kidney transplant.

Not exact matches

By passively cooling deceased organ donor body temperature by approximately two degrees from normal body temperature, researchers saw an overall nearly 40 percent increase in the successful function of donated kidneys after surgery.

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.

«Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors improves organ function in kidney transplant: Finding could increase overall organ availability.»

Slight changes to the system for allocating deceased - donor kidneys could result in higher rates of organ procurement and lead to more kidney transplants across the country, according to new research co-authored by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor.

No wonder that those needing a kidney vastly exceed the number of kidneys available from deceased donors.

Kidney dialysis is often used as a treatment, but the best long - term solution is transplant, usually from a recently - deceased donor.

And in another Penn project, researchers are studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased diabetic donors, rather than remaining on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.

To understand why these kidneys are not being used, with the goal of improving kidney utilization, reducing wait times, and providing transplants to more patients, a team led by Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH and S. Ali Husain, MD, MPH (Columbia University Medical Center) analyzed information on deceased donors from whom both kidneys were procured but only one was transplanted from 2000 - 2015.

While most kidneys from deceased donors function well, studies have shown that a kidney from a living donor, either a blood relative or an unrelated person, provides the greatest chance for long - term success.

Donated kidneys also come from recently deceased donors.

Analysis of the sample can determine if a kidney donor (potential live kidney donor or deceased kidney donor) or a patient inherited two APOL1 gene renal - risk variants that contribute to poorer renal allograft survival after transplantation.

Freedman, Barry I., et al. «APOL1 Genotype and Kidney Transplantation Outcomes From Deceased African American Donors.»

These observations support testing for APOL1 renal - risk variants in deceased African American kidney donors to improve the organ allocation process.

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 long without blood or oxygen.

Furthermore, paired kidney transplants using organs from deceased or live donors, makes compelling sense from a cost perspective, compared to the alternative of the pain and discomfort of kidney dialysis treatment.

The NPRM's proposed approach did not differentiate between situations in which the donor was competent to consent to the donation — for example, when an individual is donating blood, sperm, a kidney, or a liver or lung lobe — and situations in which the donor was deceased, for example, when cadaveric organs and tissues were being donated.