kidney transplantationpatient survivalPatients with end-stage renal disease need renal replacement therapy, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplant (KT), to live a relatively normal life. Compared with other dialysis modalities, KT remains the choice for better survival.#This ...
An investigational bioengineered blood vessel was engrafted in a US patient for the first time in June 2013 at Duke University Hospital. Credit: Shawn Rocco, Duke Medicine An investigational, man-made blood vessel used in vascular grafts for kidney dialysis patients may potentially show encouraging e...
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Graft dysfunction typically results from cumulative tissue injury arising from several pathogenic insults occurring in specific histologic compartments, modified by the kidney's healing response to the injury, alloimmunity, and immunosuppression. From: Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (Fourth Edition), 2010 ...
Kidney transplantation is a superior treatment strategy than chronic dialysis for end-stage renal disease patients. However, there is a severe shortage of ... AK Israni,SD Halpern,S Zink,... - 《American Journal of Transplantation》 被引量: 23发表: 2015年 Functional Compensation of Kidney Funct...
Acute rejection is a major risk factor for kidney graft failure. However, as acute rejection has been progressively reduced by recent immunosuppressive reg... First,M. R - 《Nephrol Dial Transplant》 被引量: 109发表: 2003年 A clinical scoring system highly predictive of long-term kidney graft...
Improving long-term graft survival in kidney transplant recipients reduces the need for dialysis or re-transplantationManagement strategies which provide optimal long-term protection to already transplanted kidneys are highly cost effective and can help patients avoid the need for dialysis or re-...
Kidney Foundation (NKF) has developed the Kidney Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) guidelines that serve as the standards of hemodialysis access management. Methods of dialysis access that are used in patients requiring hemodialysis include hemodialysis catheters, arteriovenous grafts (AVGs),...
Achieving Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines for native arteriovenous fistulae using the radiocephalic forearm fistula (lower-arm fistula [LAF... BS Dixon,L Novak,J Fangman - 《American Journal of Kidney Diseases》 被引量: 515发表: 2002年 Upper arm arteriovenous fistulas as a reliable...
WO84/03036 describes a stent-graft intended for as an arteriovenous graft for kidney dialysis. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A stented vascular graft incorporating at least one stent into a portion of its length is described. The at least one stent is preferably located at one end of the stented...