The Kidney Donor Scholarship Act: How College Scholarships Can Provide Financial Incentives for Kidney Donation While Preserving Altruistic MeaningIn the United States, lives are lost on a daily basis due to a serious shortfall in the availability of kidneys for transplant. The debate over possible ...
BACKGROUND: Currently, many transplantation centers do not follow former living kidney donors on a long-term basis. Several potential barriers have been identified to provide this follow-up of former living kidney donors, including concerns that donor insurance will not reimburse transplantation centers...
This book was written for kidney disease patients hoping to find a living kidney donor for their much-needed kidney transplant. If you're a transplant hopeful looking for tools to help you share their story and educate others about your need - look no fu
When both kidneys are removed, or when kidney failure is present, that person becomes anemic due to lack of erythropoietin. Iron, vitamin B-12 and folate are essential in the production of RBCs. Red blood cells (RBCs) are by far the most abundant cells in the blood. RBCs give blood its...
brought a patient in, and prepared them for transplant, it would be the middle of the night and almost 30 hours after the kidney was removed from the donor. It would be so easy to just decline. Some other surgeon looked at the kidney and decided it was no good. Shouldn’t I just tr...
But the short version is this. Right now, opting in to donate a kidney has some fear associated with it because you have to acknowledge you’re going to die, and you have to think about how your family is going to engage with that. If we just added one shift to the rule set,...
At 18, Katie Stubblefield lost her face. At 21, she became the youngest person in the U.S. to undergo the still experimental surgery. Follow her incredible story.
While Ronald was eager to donate, he had concerns. Would having an organ removed ruin his good health? What would life be like with only one kidney? And the doctors had to grapple with their own medical and ethical dilemmas. Could they perform an operation on a person (the donor) that,...
While Ronald was eager to donate, he had concerns. Would having an organ removed ruin his good health? What would life be like with only one kidney? And the doctors had to grapple with their own medical and ethical dilemmas. Could they perform an operation on a person (the donor) that,...
Parents’ adaptation affects the health outcomes of children with chronic kidney diseases (CKD). Identifying factors that affect parents’ adaptation is necessary to understand their adaptation status. This study aims to explore factors related to the adaptation of parents who have children with CKD. ...