Sentences with phrase «kidney donors often»

Healthy living kidney donors often face pointless post-donation hurdles when seeking or changing health or life insurance, according to results of a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Of 10 patients who got kidneys from genetically mismatched donors, which typically leads to organ rejection more often than matched transplants, seven successfully came off immunosuppressants.

Donors typically have it a little easier, says Dr. Montgomery: Their kidney is often removed laparoscopically (with very tiny tools), which involves about a 3 - inch incision near the bikini line.

Donor cats are often at veterinary schools or shelters and then adopted by the family whose cat needed kidney.