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
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.
Because of the increasing demand for pancreas transplantation, more marginal donors are offered to Eurotransplant. The aim of this study was to validate a donor quality score that would facilitate recognition of a suitable pancreas donor among all reported donors. We analyzed all 3180 consecutively ...
This is common for people whose bodies have become sensitized due to previous transplants. Through community outreach, Matt’s story inspired over 80 people to sign up as potential living kidney donors. Matt’s wish for a donor came true when his schoolteacher was identified as a perfect ...
He also shared a personal anecdote about his experiences. “I've had a kidney that was supposed to go to California and missed a flight in the middle of the country. Members of the transplant community were able to scramble and place it with one of the local programs there...
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....
For certain adults with advanced kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma) OPDIVO® (nivolumab) is a prescription medicine used in combination with YERVOY® (ipilimumab) to treat adults with kidney cancer in certain people when your cancer has spread (advanced renal cell carcinoma) and you have not...
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and tough one,mostly because he had liver damage too.One physician's assistant told him,"According to your file,you're supposed to be dead."And for a while,doctors mistakenly thought that he would need not just a kidney transplant,but a liver transplant too. Dad's future hung in mid...