PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When a person gets a life-saving transplant, it becomes a moment they'll never forget. And in some cases, it creates a bond between patient and donor. That bond is evident between three women, beginning with Maggie Beer, who was very sick when she was young. "...
The costs and prevalence of lifetime complications associated with silent loss of 1 kidney were obtained from the renal donor transplant literature. A decision tree was constructed to calculate the cost of a strategy of routinely imaging all patients after ureteroscopy vs selective imaging based on ...
and local kidney hunters with links to organised crime, have stimulated the growth of a spectacularly lucrative international transplant tourism, much of it ... Scheper-Hughes,Nancy - 《Lancet》 被引量: 131发表: 2003年 Overcoming barriers to long-term graft survival Although short-term kidney gra...
In 1954, Joseph Murray attempted a type of kidney swap that no doctor had tried before. The surgery was a success, and the patient would go on to live with the transplanted organ thanks to one key factor: it came from his identical twin. 70 years later, nearly 100,000 kidneys are tran...
A kidney transplant is done when the kidneys do not function properly. The duration for which a transplanted kidney lasts may vary from person to person. On average, kidney transplants may last for around 10-12 years. What is a kidney transplant? A kidney transplant refers to the surgical ...
Once there has been an ok sign from the transplant team that there is a kidney available for an individual then it becomes important to reach the hospital as soon as possible. As soon as you reach the hospital and get the details from the doctor, they would get you admitted and then you...
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Threats to applicability of randomised trials: exclusions and selective participation. BACKGROUND: Although the randomised controlled trial (RCT) is regarded as the 'gold standard' in terms of evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, it... C Bain - 《J Health Serv Res Policy》 被引量: 572...
The nurse said she didn't realize the kidney was put in the sterile, semi-frozen solution because she had been on a break, with a different nurse in her place, when a surgeon made that announcement during the Aug. 10 transplant at the University of Toledo Medical Center, according to a...
and recipient were identical twins. The genetic similarity appeared to prevent the immune response. Massachusetts surgeon Joseph E. Murray used this concept to his advantage in 1954, when he accomplished the first successfulkidneytransplant between identicaltwinsat Brigham and Women's Hospital inBoston....