Kidney Transplantation - Latest News and Research Updates

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Inequities in Access to Kidney Transplantation Exist Even With Universal Healthcare: Study

In the United Kingdom despite its universal healthcare system, inequities in access to kidney transplantation were found to exist, revealed study published in CJASN. Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for patients with kidney ...

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 recipients, revealed a study published in the Journal of the ...

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 an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society ...

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 patients who have been undergoing dialysis for at least 10 ...

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 transplantation contributes to an increased risk of death in black ...

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 method could revolutionize kidney transplants and help save ...

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 kidneys. The old algorithm was largely a 'first come, first ...

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-rejection drugs to be used, a new study conducted by Oxford ...

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 transplantation are the two procedures needed to stay alive. ...

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 urged changes to the political, financial, and health systems ...

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 hemodialysis, though it also increases the risk of being ...

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 location and said that a broader geographic sharing of kidneys ...

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 Nephrology (JASN). Children are better off receiving kidneys ...

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 part of the February special themed issue of the journal on ...

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 organ transplantation, after which more than 400,000 lives ...

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