Sentences with phrase «in kidney transplant recipients»

The kidney toxicity seen with cyclosporine and tacrolimus is particularly problematic in kidney transplant recipients and may negate a kidney transplant.

Adaptive immune cell methylation pattern may be a fingerprint of acute rejection in kidney transplant recipients.

James B. Wetmore, MD, MS (University of Kansas Medical Center) and his colleagues conducted the first study to examine cancer risk in kidney transplant recipients with PKD and to compare their risk to that of other kidney transplant recipients.

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.

Not exact matches

One recipient, 15 - year - old Ryane Burns of Union, Miss., was transplanted at Children's of Alabama, signifying it as the only program in the Southeast to offer living kidney paired donation to those younger than 18.

Our experience in performing kidney transplants from living donors ensures the highest level of care and better outcomes for our patients — both kidney donors and recipients.»

UAB's program that can make transplantation possible between some donors and recipients who would otherwise be incompatible, is the South's leading incompatible kidney transplant program and the only one of its kind in the Southeast.

In a paired transplant chain, a donation like this can set off a series in which family or friends of recipients give a kidney to another person in need — essentially paying donations forward on behalf of a loved onIn a paired transplant chain, a donation like this can set off a series in which family or friends of recipients give a kidney to another person in need — essentially paying donations forward on behalf of a loved onin which family or friends of recipients give a kidney to another person in need — essentially paying donations forward on behalf of a loved onin need — essentially paying donations forward on behalf of a loved one.

«The goal of our current research efforts is not just success in preventing rejection, but identifying treatments that allow transplanted kidneys to last the full lifetime of the recipient.»

In addition, Mayo's task force recommends statins to patients with some conditions that the ACC / AHA guideline did not specifically address, such as patients who have rheumatoid arthritis, recipients of a kidney or heart transplant or those infected with the AIDS virus.

When creatinine levels are elevated in the blood of a kidney transplant recipient, it is an indication that the transplanted kidney is not functioning well.

«Our study shows that when the creatinine level is elevated in the blood of a kidney transplant recipient, use of our urine test would differentiate the common causes of kidney dysfunction that led to the elevation in creatinine, hence benefiting many patients by allowing them to avoid the need for an invasive needle biopsy,» said Dr. Muthukumar.

In January doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reported a new technique to help transplanted kidneys survive and function even in mismatched donor - recipient pairIn January doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston reported a new technique to help transplanted kidneys survive and function even in mismatched donor - recipient pairin Boston reported a new technique to help transplanted kidneys survive and function even in mismatched donor - recipient pairin mismatched donor - recipient pairs.

They also compared cancer incidence in PKD vs non-PKD kidney transplant recipients.

The inflammation parameters in the transplanted kidneys decreased significantly and renal function in all recipients is excellent,» summarises Marcus Groettrup, adding that these results suggest immunoproteasome inhibition as a promising therapeutic approach to suppress chronic antibody - mediated rejection.

Transplant recipients who receive a kidney, heart, or lung often develop an immune response to the foreign tissue in the form of antibodies referred as donor - specific HLA antibodies.

One advantage of Strober's approach is that it is milder and less traumatic for the recipient than having a bone marrow transplant in addition to a kidney transplant, says Maggie Dallman, an immunologist at Imperial College London.

Two renal - risk variants in the apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1), termed G1 and G2, are present in a large percentage of African American organ donors and kidney transplant recipients.

Yeast is high in purines, so those with gout, uric acid kidney stones, and new organ transplant recipients may want to keep their intake to less than a teaspoon a day, but for everyone else, is there any downside?

(He would later undergo a kidney transplant and become the oldest surviving double transplant recipient in history.)

Researchers in Hungary conducted a study of kidney transplant recipients and found that 25 percent had moderate to severe sleep apnea, a rate similar to that seen in kidney disease patients on dialysis awaiting a transplant.

He was a kidney transplant recipient in 1973 when he was 21, following a series of misdiagnoses at other hospitals in his native Michigan.