Sentences with phrase «kidney transplant patients because»

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.

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The success with kidney transplant patients is particularly noteworthy given the number of very ill people who come to the medical center with a high probability of rejecting a donor organ because of high amounts of antibodies in their blood.

Unfortunately, because of a shortage of available kidneys, there is a long waitlist to receive a transplant, and approximately 5000 patients in the Unites States die each year waiting for a kidney transplant.

Because lupus nephritis is often a progressive disease, many patients will have to have a kidney transplant.