CANBERRA, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A major review has found that indigenous Australians in need of a kidney transplant face "untenable" systematic bias. Minister for Indigenous Health Ken Wyatt released the findings of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand on Tuesday night, telling ...
In this 30-year national review, we describe trends in DD transplantation for paediatric recipients, assess the impact of paediatric allocation bonuses and identify outstanding areas of need for this population.#A retrospective review of all DD kidney only transplants to paediatric recipients (<18...
"Before the establishment of the Indigenous Reference Groups, there was very limited input by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers into the processes of care in renal units and no input about care in kidney transplant units." Health systems across Australia need to be empowered to embrac...
The selection of a kidney graft recipient should be made not only taking into account biological and clinical parameters, for assuring the maximum possible clinical success; the ethical objective to allow every patient equal opportunity of receiving a transplant should also be pursued. In every waiti...
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of these protocols, including pediatric priority, on waiting time on dialysis, transplant type, donor age, and HLA matching according to state of transplant in Australia. De-identified information on patients关键词:...
通读第三段内容,结合关键句“Most organ transplants come from people who have died, but there are never enough organs.”(大多数器官移植来自已经去世的人,但器官永远不够。)和“If someone wants to donate but their immune (免疫的) system is unsuited, doctors may be able to find pairs of would...
Richard "Rick" Slayman, who suffers from a chronic kidney disease, says he is excited about spending time with his loved ones free from the burden of dialysis as he recovers from his "historic transplant".
The number of patients requiring kidney transplants has steadily increased throughout the world [1]. In the past decade, the number of active patients on the waiting list in the United States has increased from 52,503 in 2009 ...
The average waiting time for a kidney transplant in Australia is about four years. Many patients wait for even longer periods of time. In 2004, the annual rate of donor kidney transplants in Australia from patients who had passed away was 11 donors per million of the population. In 2003, ...
"Inappropriate changes … effectively inactivated the candidates on the liver transplant waiting list," Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said in a statement published Thursdayin the Houston Chronicle. "Subsequently, these patients did not/were not able to receive organ donation offers while ...