Sentences with phrase «kidney transplant recipients who»

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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 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.

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.

The authors also acknowledge that although the costs of transplanting hepatitis C - infected kidneys into uninfected recipients would be high, they may be offset by savings from reduced dialysis time for recipients who would otherwise wait longer for a kidney.

About Blog Alysia is a kidney recipient, who tells the story of first kidney transplant and need for second kidney transplant.