Sentences with phrase «of kidney transplant recipients»

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.

«Development of noninvasive tests to detect immune activation before kidney damage occurs would help guide the care of kidney transplant recipients,» said NIAID Transplantation Branch Chief Nancy Bridges, M.D., a co-author of the paper.

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.

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

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.»

Twenty - one living donors have changed the lives of 21 recipients so far as part of the nation's longest ongoing single - center paired kidney transplant chain, which is under way at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

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 one.

With a three - year survival rate of 94.39 percent for all adult kidney recipients — above the 92.62 percent national average — UCSF has more patients on the kidney transplant waiting list than any other U.S. transplant center.

«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.»

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.

«If you want to preserve the intended life expectancy of a heart or liver transplant recipient, you need to find ways to mitigate the risk of kidney injury.

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 with low urinary CXCL9 protein six months after transplantation were unlikely to experience rejection or loss of kidney function over the next 18 months.

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.

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.

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that the five - year survival of diabetic kidney transplant patients is now on par with the five - year survival of nondiabetic kidney recipients.

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.

Because donated immune cells recognise the foreign tissue from the transplanted kidney, the thymus gets rid of the recipient's own T - cells that could otherwise attack the kidney.

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

We developed a study protocol for the analysis of phenotypic and methylation pattern of PBMCs from kidney transplant recipients.

The purpose of this study is to help physicians understand which liver transplant recipients are likely to develop kidney problems after transplant.

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.

10 to 20 % of liver transplant recipients develop kidney problems after their liver transplant.

To qualify under Major Organ Transplant, the Insured Person must undergo a transplantation procedure as the recipient of a heart, lung, liver, kidney or bone marrow, and limited to these entities.

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