Sentences with phrase «pairing kidney donors»

Not exact matches

And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.

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.

«There is a huge strength in numbers, and the more we can encourage donors and recipients to participate in paired kidney donation — even as a compatible pair, which we were able to accomplish in our UAB kidney chain — you can gain things by participating in these exchanges,» Locke said.

Working first in people with perfectly immune - matched siblings and then with partially mismatched donor - recipient pairs, the researchers showed that the majority of individuals could achieve stable kidney function and successfully wean off of their immunosuppressants with few problems — in one case for up to nine years.

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 pairs.

When researchers examined information on pairs of kidneys from the same donor in which 1 kidney was used but the other was discarded, the kidneys that were used tended to perform well even though they were similar in quality to their partner kidneys that were not used.

After analyzing information on 88,209 donors (176,418 kidneys), the researchers found that although the discarded kidneys in these pairs frequently had traits that are typically considered unappealing, the partner kidneys that shared many, if not all of the same traits performed well after being used for transplantation despite being used in older recipients with more medical problems.

We therefore aimed to identify kidney donors from whom 1 kidney was used but the partner kidney in the pair was discarded,» Dr. Mohan explained.»

In order to increase living - donor kidney transplants, a team of physicians from the University of Chicago has proposed to initiate a «paired kidney exchange» program and study its ethical implications The program would allow two people who need kidney transplants and have willing but incompatible donors to exchange donor kidneys.

Summary: To increase living - donor kidney transplants, physicians from the University of Chicago have proposed a «paired kidney exchange» program.

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Under the terms of the paired organ scheme, Mr Horrell, who wanted to donate his kidney to his ill wife, but was unable to do so because he was not a compatible donor with her, instead donated it to a compatible stranger recipient, whose partner in turn donated one of her compatible kidneys to Mrs Horrell.

Furthermore, paired kidney transplants using organs from deceased or live donors, makes compelling sense from a cost perspective, compared to the alternative of the pain and discomfort of kidney dialysis treatment.