"I think it was a higher power that was telling me to do this. Once I became receptive to that, I agree that yeah, this is where I'm supposed to be," said Carpenter, who is now the director of the Living Donor Kidney Program at Allegheny General Hospital. It's a job Beer wasn'...
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
Kidney TransplantationLiving Donors家庭肾移植活体供者Living donors continue to provide the optimum outcome for kidney transplant recipients, yet information is limited on how donation can affect the donor and his or her family. Questionnaires returned by 524 donors whose donor nephrectomies took place ...
During a kidney transplant, the malfunctioning kidney is surgically removed and replaced with a healthy kidney from a donor. The donor may be a living or deceased. A kidney transplant serves several advantages such as improving the quality of life, increasing longevity, and decreasing the various ...
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...
Peritoneal dialysis. This form of dialysis uses the membrane that lines the abdomen in place of the kidney to act as a filter for blood. Kidney transplant. In some cases, a donor kidney can be transplanted into the body to replace the diseased organ. Kidney transplants are not a viable op...
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.
(AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio - A nurse who accidentally disposed of a living donor's kidney during a transplant said she didn't realize it was in chilled, protective slush that she removed from an operating room, took down a hall to a dirty utility room and "flushed down a hopper," according ...
Shortage of kidney donor is still a major limitation for renal transplantation programs. This review focuses on the emerging practices, adopted to increase transplant activities, of expanding the criteria for donor and recipient selection without exposing the recipient to the drawbacks of a graft with...
Nearly 100,000 people with failing kidneys are on waiting lists for a kidney transplant in the United States, with an average wait of three to five years.