Kidney transplantation offers improved quality of life, a survival benefit, and lower cost when compared with chronic dialysis.1 In 2018, an all-time high of 22,393 kidney transplants were performed in the United States, with almost 80,000 patients remaining on the waiting list at year-end....
14. Early Course of the Patient With a Kidney Transplant 15. Azathioprine and Mycophenolates 16. Steroids 17. Calcineurin Inhibitors 18. mTOR Inhibitors 19. Antilymphocyte Globulin, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Fusion Proteins 20. Other Forms of Immunosuppression 21. Approaches to the Induction of To...
Expanding the pool of available deceased donor kidneys is critical for improving the outcomes of prospective and current renal transplant candidates. A number of interventions have been proposed that may increase the pool of donors in the US. However, these interventions have variable levels of empiri...
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Piccoli GB, Chatrenet A, Cataldo M, Torreggiani M, Attini R, Masturzo B et al (2022) Adding creatinine to routine pregnancy tests: a decision tree for calculating the cost of identifying patients with CKD in pregnancy. Nephrol Dial Transplant. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfac051 Article ...
Kidney Transplant: A kidney transplant is a medical procedure to transplant a healthy kidney to the recipient from a suitable donor. Purposes of kidney transplants are better quality of life, fewer dietary restrictions, lower treatment cost, and lower death risk. ...
I couldn’t believe that doctors didn’t know this stuff. They were pushing people towards dialysis and transplants when some didn’t need to. But as a nephrologist once told me,.“that’s the American way of treating kidney disease.” ...
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Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice, offering better survival and cost-effectiveness than other alternatives. This study aimed to compare the cost of living-donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) during the first year after transplantation with that of hemodialysis (HD). A prospective, ...
27 studied the association between dietary intake, assessed by two 24-hour dietary recalls using the 5-step multiple-pass method, and serum uric acid levels in 113 kidney transplant recipients. They found that patients who ingested more vegetable protein and caffeine exhibited a lower likelihood of...