Despite routine screening for (human immunodeficiency virus) by live donors, a kidney transplant recipient became infected, according the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. An report, part of the CDC, highlights the need to re-examine national policy on HIV tests and their ...
Live Donor Kidney Transplant (LDKT): the role of Mini-Incisional Open Donor Nephrectomy (MIODN)doi:10.1016/S1569-9056(02)80041-0Ignacio Castillón-VelaRemigio Vela-NavarreteJose Rodriguez-MiñonJavier CalahorraJavier CabreraElsevier B.V.European Urology Supplements...
Whether it is better to avoid prolonged waiting times for a standard criteria donor kidney by transplanting an organ from an older living donor is a clinically important question. In their analysis, Gill and colleagues have addressed this question for older transplant recipients. The investigators' ...
Live Donor Liver Transplants: What The Future Holds Medical Journal of MalaysiaFung, John J.
KIDNEY transplantationDISEASE risk factorsILIAC arteryBackground Renal transplant surgeons are making increasing use of live donor kidneys with multiple renal arteries. This study aimed to identify independent risk factors for the development of transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) in the modern era ...
Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants from live donors can be done with no mortality and good graft outcome. With stringent donor criteria, this approach could become another surgical alternative for endocrine replacement therapy in selected patients with uremic type I diabetes. 展开 关键词:...
OBJECTIVES: The ongoing development of live donor kidney transplant has generated many ethical dilemmas. It is important to be aware of the attitudes of transplant professionals involved in this practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An anonymous and confidential questionnaire was sent to 236 members of the...
We report the protocol of the Talking about Living Kidney Donation Support (TALKS) study, a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral, educational and financial assistance interventions to improve access to LDKT among African Americans on the deceased donor kidney transplant recipient ...
Neighborhood poverty has been associated with worse outcomes after live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), and prior work suggests that women with kidney disease may be more susceptible to the negative influence of poverty than men. As such, our goal was to examine whether poverty differentially ...
Living donors can also donate organs, including 1 kidney (people are born with 2, but can live with 1), portions of their liver, pancreas, or intestine and a lobe of their lung. The US Health Resources and Services Administration has much information available about being a living donor ...