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New Option to Increase Kidney Transplantation for Minorities

New Option to Increase Kidney Transplantation for Minorities

Kidney transplant recipients continue to live a healthy life even after receiving organs from donors with unmatching blood group. And, the donor organs are compatible and safe for the recipi...

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Genes Involved in Tolerance Following Kidney Transplantation Identified

Genes Involved in Tolerance Following Kidney Transplantation Identified

Important insights on the mechanisms that allow an individual’s immune system to accept, rather than reject a donor kidney have emerged from a new study. The recent findings, which appear in...

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Kidney Transplantation is Associated With Better Survival

Kidney Transplantation is Associated With Better Survival

Highlights: Individuals on dialysis for at least ten years who then received a kidney transplant lived longer than those who stayed on dialysis. More than 22,000 U.S dialysis pati...

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Children’s Access to Kidney Transplantation Affected by Racial Disparities

Children’s Access to Kidney Transplantation Affected by Racial Disparities

Highlights Children suffering from kidney failure need access to healthy kidneys from living or deceased donors to improve their quality of life. Reduced access to kidney transpla...

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New Procedure Allows More Successful Kidney Transplantation

New Procedure Allows More Successful Kidney Transplantation

A new procedure called desensitization allows doctors to alter patient’s immune systems and transplant kidneys from living donors previously considered incompatible. Experts say that this me...

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New Allocation System Reduces Rates of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

New Allocation System Reduces Rates of Racial Disparities in Kidney Transplantation

On December 4, 2014, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which sets nationwide rules on how donor organs are allocated, changed the rules for prioritizing who gets deceased donor ki...

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Drug can Reduce Risk of Rejection in Kidney Transplantation by Half: Study

Drug can Reduce Risk of Rejection in Kidney Transplantation by Half: Study

A drug that can be given at the time of a kidney transplant operation will not only cut down the risk of rejection by half but also sets up the foundation for a less toxic regimen of anti-re...

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Regional and Racial Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation in America?

Regional and Racial Disparities in Access to Kidney Transplantation in America?

End stage renal disease (ESRD) is the last stage of chronic kidney disease or kidney failure. Dialysis, which is a process used to remove wastes and toxins from the blood, and kidney tr...

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Study Finds Significant Disparity in Access to Kidney Transplantation Across the US

Study Finds Significant Disparity in Access to Kidney Transplantation Across the US

A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation has underlined the vast disparity in the access of kidney transplantation among patients living in the southeast and has urge...

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Kidney Transplantation Better Than Home Hemodialysis in Treating Kidney Failure

Kidney Transplantation Better Than Home Hemodialysis in Treating Kidney Failure

A new study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology suggests that kidney transplantation can help kidney failure patients to live longer compared to frequent home hemo...

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Broader Geographic Sharing of Kidneys Key to Cutting Down Waiting Times in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

Broader Geographic Sharing of Kidneys Key to Cutting Down Waiting Times in Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

A new study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology reveals that the waiting time for children in need of kidney transplants varies significantly with geographic locat...

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Current Children Counter Less Racial Disparities In Kidney Transplantation

Current Children Counter Less Racial Disparities In Kidney Transplantation

Racial disparities in kidney transplantation among children is cut down by a policy instituted in 2005 states study emerging in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Neph...

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Access to Kidney Transplantation and Racial Disparities

Access to Kidney Transplantation and Racial Disparities

Racial disparities exist in both the early and late steps in access to kidney transplantation, says a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation . This study is pa...

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Kidney Transplantation Milestone - December 23, 1954

Kidney Transplantation Milestone - December 23, 1954

December 23, 1954 will always be remembered in medical history as a day when Doctors in Boston transplanted a kidney to a critically ill 23-year-old man. It was a milestone in the history of...

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Successful Pregnancy Possible For Women Even After Kidney Transplantation

Successful Pregnancy Possible For Women Even After Kidney Transplantation

Kidney transplantation will in no way hinder in having a successful pregnancy, as a new study reveals 73.5% live birth rates. The report was recently published in the American Journal of Tr...

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