Kidney transplantation is now generally accepted as the primary therapy for chronic renal failure in most patients, with the exception of those who cannot tolerate immunosuppressive treatment or transplant surgery [1]. Many reasons justify the use of kidneys from living donors. Although the overall ...
These genetically altered pig kidneys represent a “potential breakthrough in solving one of the more intractable problems in our field, that being unequal access for ethnic minority patients to the opportunity for kidney transplants due to the extreme donor organ shortage and other system...
We sought to understand decisional needs of people living with chronic pain in Canada. Methods We conducted a population-based cross-sectional online survey of random samples of adults living in Canada with chronic noncancer pain and registered with the Leger Marketing panel. We followed the ...
The retrospective, single-center study is believed to be the largest research study to date to examine the risks associated with living kidney donation vialaparoscopic surgery. The study involved 3,002 livingkidney donorswho underwent laparoscopic livingkidneydonor surgery at the transplant center from ...
This cohort study aims to determine the risk of hypertension in normotensive adults who donated a kidney compared with nondonors of similar baseline
This experience is similar to that reported by heart, liver and kidney transplant recipients for whom potential existential suffering was reversed [29,30]. The identity restoration of these men may be compared to the experiences of women receiving breast reconstruction after mastectomy for cancer to ...
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Living kidney donation does not end with the operative procedure—long-term cost-free physical and psychological follow-up should be offered to each donor for the gift he or she is willing to give to the recipient. 展开 关键词: Chryseobacterium indologenes metallo beta-lactamase urinary tract ...
In a written statement provided by the hospital, Slayman said he had been a patient in the hospital’s transplant program for 11 years. He previously received a kidney from a human donor in 2018 after living with diabetes and high blood pressure for many years. That kidney began to show si...
High-dose chemotherapy followed by reinfusion of selected CD34+ peripheral blood cells in patients with poor-prognosis breast cancer: a randomized multicen... Seventy-one patients with poor-prognosis breast cancer were enrolled after informed consent in a multicentre randomized study to evaluate the ...