there was someone ahead of her. We learned that the first donor, Patricia, was a stranger that had heard about Chris in a church prayer group at Garrett’s school. In a turn of events when Patricia was going through her last round of tests it was found that she had a ...
I don’t have a picture of her, but here’s a picture of her arm To Patrick — a fellow kidney donor who started reading my blog before he donated to his brother. He lives in the Bay area, so we hope to meet him while we are there. It’s so nice to know that someone else...
as when supporters post photos of themselves wearing campaign T-shirts and share information about the patient’s search for a living donor [17]. Our findings and other research indicate that the creation of a virtual environment where a sense of belonging within the group is fostered by the ...
It is intriguing to note that serum uromodulin levels show an initial increase in patients, regardless of whether they experience DGF or not, which could indicate the release of “donor” serum uromodulin from the transplanted kidney. However, in patients with DGF, there was a subsequent ...
While overall, kidney donor outcomes are excellent, analyses of Norwegian and American cohorts show a more than 10-fold increase in subsequent development of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in donors compared to nondonors [1,2]. Among more than 100,000 living kidney donors, ESKD risk was alm...