Sentences with phrase «donor kidney»

But the increased use of living donor kidneys also helped reduce costs.

The test may inform physicians about optimal allocation of donor kidneys and lead to improved patient care and outcomes.

While the project is in its infancy, the idea represents a potential solution to the extreme shortage of donor kidneys.

«Gender disparities uncovered in desire to receive living donor kidney transplants.»

«To help improve the gender disparities in living donor kidney transplantation, future work is needed to learn how to support and encourage women to accept transplants,» said Dr. Gillespie.

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

By exchanging donor kidneys, both recipients receive a timely transplant with a living, compatible kidney, circumventing the incompatibility with their own living donor.

Sixty years after the first documented kidney transplant in the U.S., a study shows the procedure carries little long - term medical risk for the donor

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

For example, UT Southwestern's program was one of the first to use anti-lymphocyte antibodies to prevent and treat rejection; calcium channel blockers to improve the early function of transplanted kidneys; and molecular biology to better match donor kidneys with the patients who need them.

Parker and three other researchers studied three risk factors that explain the geographic differences in procuring deceased - donor kidneys across the United States: organ quality, the median wait time for donation and the degree of competition between transplantation centers in the area.

Now a new survey, being presented at the European Association of Urology congress in Munich, has shown significant differences in the number of donor kidneys available in each country.

«Many donor kidneys that are discarded may be suitable for transplantation.»

A kidney transplant involves removal of the diseased kidney and replacement with a healthy donor kidney.

• Women were less likely to want to undergo living donor kidney transplantation compared with men (58.5 % vs 87.5 %) despite being nearly twice as likely as men to receive unsolicited offers for kidney transplants from family and friends (73.2 % vs 43.2 %).

Yet, a new study conducted by Mayo Clinic and the University of Michigan shows that only one - third of patients who ultimately receive a living donor kidney transplant receive it pre-emptively (i.e., before starting dialysis).

Gosell, a UIC employee, received a previous living - donor kidney from her cousin in 2008.

Many programs offer living donor kidney transplantation but require a completely compatible match.

The breakthrough paves the way for human - scale versions, which could potentially provide an inexhaustible supply of organs, eliminating the need for recipients to wait for a matching donor kidney.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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.

The active waiting list for kidney transplants was 2.7 times larger than the supply of donor kidneys, with 17,600 kidney transplants performed in 2013.

The findings, which are from a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), suggest that interventions are needed to increase women's acceptance of living donor kidney transplantation.

• After controlling for various factors known to influence transplant decisions, women were 87 % less likely to want to undergo living donor kidney transplantation than men.

Living donor kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with kidney failure, but disparities exist among certain groups including blacks and women.

«Information gained about the concerns and attitudes of hemodialysis patients regarding living donor kidney transplantation might help us develop targeted interventions designed to alleviate some existing disparities,» said Dr. Gillespie.

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.

Transplant tourism today accounts for as much as 10 percent of all donor kidneys transplanted, says Luc Noël, coordinator for Essential Health Technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO).

However, this new research shows there has been no increase in the utilization of what is known as timely living donor kidney transplants, which includes pre-emptive and early transplants, since 2006.

«Early referral to transplant evaluation and access to information about living donor kidney transplantation is key to a successful timely transplant and to improved long - term outcomes,» says Mark Stegall, M.D., a professor of surgery at Mayo Clinic and senior author of the manuscript.

Kenar D. Jhaveri, MD, and Richard Barnett, MD, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research scientists and Northwell Health Department of Internal Medicine nephrologists, published a Letter to the Editor in the New England Journal of Medicine, which profiles a novel drug combination with the potential to help prevent rejection of a donor kidney in transplant patients undergoing cancer treatment.

While effective in most cancer patients, this course of treatment has been less successful in kidney transplant patients because if the immune system is activated, it causes the patient's body to start rejecting their donor kidney.

The first transplant patient was a 16 - year - old boy with renal failure who received a donor kidney from his father.

In order to increase living - donor kidney transplants, a team of physicians from the University of Chicago has proposed to initiate a «paired kidney exchange» program and study its ethical implications The program would allow two people who need kidney transplants and have willing but incompatible donors to exchange donor kidneys.

Genetic testing might help determine if a donor kidney carries greater risk for renal complications after transplantation, such as a higher serum creatinine concentration or earlier allograft failure.

Summary: To increase living - donor kidney transplants, physicians from the University of Chicago have proposed a «paired kidney exchange» program.

For example, if it is determined that a donor kidney is at greater risk for shortened allograft survival based on presence of two APOL1 renal - risk variants, rapid re-assessment of allocation of the kidney may be advisable.

Until recently, living - donor kidney transplantation was confined to genetically similar relatives.

Their proposal — presented (with Web site) for public comment in the New England Journal of Medicine — allows two people who need kidney transplants and have willing but incompatible donors to exchange donor kidneys.

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(ref1, ref2) PennVet currently claims a 60 - 70 % one - year post-transplant feline survival rate (As opposed to a 97 % success rate in humans given human - donor kidneys.

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