She is active on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. Her energy level is good and she is still working. She is eating well and her weight has been stable, with no hiccups, nausea, vomiting, or dysgeusia. Her main concern is itch, which affects her upper arms, thighs, chest, and...
Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant. Living donors can give one of their two kidneys or part of a liver, the only organ that regenerates. With nearly 90,000 people on the U.S. list for a kidney transplant, finding a living donor not only shortens the year...
We studied 61 patients in this contention in the Netherlands waiting for a kidney transplant. All took part in in-depth interviews and filled out questionnaires on two occasions, once before and once after an information brochure on XT had been read. We found that a better health status is ...
Antibody-mediated rejection: treatment alternatives and outcomes. Transplant Rev (Orlando). 2009;23(1):34–46. 9. Pescovitz MD. B cells: a rational target in alloantibody-mediated solid organ transplantation rejection. Clin Transplant. 2006;20(1):48–54. 10. Glotz D, Antoine C, Julia P, ...
Therefore, future research efforts in non-invasive (such as blood) alternatives for obtaining the data are needed to expand the accessibility and utility of the MRS in clinical practice. Our study is also subject to several limitations that merit acknowledgment. First, we were limited by the ...
Dialysis served as a powerful default treatment with few perceived alternatives. Patients who did not wish to start dialysis had to resist immense pressure from clinicians to do so, while patients who were not viewed as candidates for dialysis seemed to have little say in the matter. Contemporary...
These findings suggest that policies to promote referral for transplant should be accompanied by efforts to strengthen shared decision-making to ensure that referral is framed as an explicit treatment choice with benefits, risks, and alternatives. Despite the substantial tradeoffs involved, the transplant...
A special chapter on dialysis and kidney transplants and what you can use from the All Natural Kidney Health & Kidney Function Restoration Program to live a good quality of life and allowyour transplant to last forever… Sample Grocery Shopping List … as simple as printing it out and bringing...
Alternatives to the Percutaneous Approach When the percutaneous approach is contraindicated, other approaches to renal biopsy have been described. The choice of technique depends on the safety, morbidity, recovery period, and adequacy of the technique, but probably above all on the local expertise that...
Alternatives for facilitating the insertion of the guidewire in difficult cases. Directing it through a ureteral catheter (a), under direct ureteroscopic control (b). 6.3.4 Ensuring Access to the Intramural Ureter The ureterovesical junction and the intramural ureter constitute the ureteral segment ...