Living donor transplant:In some cases, a healthy person can donate a kidney to someone else, as the human body can remain well with one working kidney. This is often a friend or family member. When a living person decides to donate a kidney out of kindness to a waiting recipient they do...
A living donor: because the body only needs one kidney, a person with two healthy kidneys can donate one to someone who needs a transplant. A deceased donor: when a live donor isn’t available, a patient will be placed on a national waiting list to receive a kidney from a person who ...
Abecassis M, Bartlett ST, Collins AJ, Davis CL, Delmonico FL, Friedewald JJ et al. Kidney transplantation as primary therapy for end-stage renal disease: a National Kidney Foundation/Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (NKF/KDOQITM) conference. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Mar;3(2):471...
“I think the hard thing is there's been certain situations where I've had people sign up to try to donate a kidney, and that didn't work out for whatever reason,” Justin said. “You get caught up sometimes with those types of situations [and] the...
and monthly in dialysis patients. Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents should be considered when hemoglobin is below 10 g/dL, with iron saturation at least 20% to 30% and ferritin greater than 200 ng/mL. For dialysis patients, the target hemoglobin concentration is 10 to 11.5 g/dL. Please see ...
Thus, monthly ALT levels are valuable to help narrow the focus of an HCV case investigation to the most likely exposure and source. The value of monthly ALT testing in patients who have resolved HCV infection has not been studied. 1.3 Liver testing in patients with CKD and HCV infection ...