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Kidney Transplants: Volume of Services Linked to the Quality of Treatment Outcomes

Kidney Transplants: Volume of Services Linked to the Quality of Treatment Outcomes

New study finds whether there is a correlation between the volume of service provided per hospital and the quality of the treatment outcome in complex operations. This question is addr...

Steep Decline in Organ Transplants Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Reveals Analysis

Steep Decline in Organ Transplants Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Reveals Analysis

United States and France which are hit hard by the novel coronavirus were found to experience a tremendous reduction in the number of organ donations and solid organ (kidney, liver, heart, a...

Soft Opt-out System can Increase Organ Donation Consent

Soft Opt-out System can Increase Organ Donation Consent

Introduction of a soft opt‐out system of consent significantly boosted organ donation consent though the impact was not immediate, reports a new study. The findings of the study are pu...

New Photoacoustic Imaging Technique can Assess Kidney Quality Before Transplantation

New Photoacoustic Imaging Technique can Assess Kidney Quality Before Transplantation

Novel worlds' first study applies photoacoustic (PA) imaging to visualize scarring in kidneys, also called fibrosis, a common form of damage in donor's kidneys. Their results produced clear ...

New Study Explores Link Between Distance to Transplant Center and Likelihood of Being Considered for Transplantation

New Study Explores Link Between Distance to Transplant Center and Likelihood of Being Considered for Transplantation

In the kidney transplantation process, the distance from a patient's residence to the nearest transplant center did not appear to affect access to early steps, revealed study of Southeastern...

Early Blood Marker Helps Predict Future Risk of Kidney Transplant Failure

Early Blood Marker Helps Predict Future Risk of Kidney Transplant Failure

A new blood marker helps predict which patients who recently underwent kidney transplantation are at risk of experiencing organ rejection several years later. The findings appear in an upcom...

New Transplant Technique Revives Donor Hearts That Had Stopped Beating

New Transplant Technique Revives Donor Hearts That Had Stopped Beating

A new technology used by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has brought two donor hearts that stopped beating back to life before transplanting them into patients. Until recent...

Elderly Patients also Benefit from Kidney Transplantation: Study

Elderly Patients also Benefit from Kidney Transplantation: Study

Patients older than 75 years who received a kidney from a similarly aged donor remain dialysis-free for the rest of their lives, reveals a new study. The findings of the study are published ...

Americans Support Organ Donation for Research

Americans Support Organ Donation for Research

A strong majority of Americans agree that organ and tissue donation for research contributes to health and medical breakthroughs and acknowledge significant shortfalls for donation. This is ...

Huge Improvements Noted in Survival of Kids After Kidney Transplantation: Study

Huge Improvements Noted in Survival of Kids After Kidney Transplantation: Study

Massive improvements are seen over the last 40 years in the survival of children after kidney transplant, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the Clinical Journa...

New Research Helps Down Disease Incidence in Organ Donors

New Research Helps Down Disease Incidence in Organ Donors

Genotyping helps identify and predict the risk of subjects wishing to donate a kidney. Those who are at high-risk of developing the disease can be removed from the pool of donors which will ...

New Way to Preserve Donated Kidneys

New Way to Preserve Donated Kidneys

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Cleveland Clinic and Lifebanc (a Northeast Ohio organ-procurement org...

New Device can Help High-quality Blood Donors

New Device can Help High-quality Blood Donors

New device developed at UBC is showing promise as a method to recognize "super donors," potentially aiding over 4.5 million patients who need blood transfusions each year in Canada and the U...

Mixed Chimerism Improves Long-term Kidney Transplant Outlook, Says Study

Mixed Chimerism Improves Long-term Kidney Transplant Outlook, Says Study

For kidney transplant recipients, mixed chimerism could improve outcomes, states new clinical study in about 50 patients. Mixed chimerism is the continued mixing of donor and recipient blood...

Kidney Paired Donation is an Excellent Option for Transplant Candidates, Says Study

Kidney Paired Donation is an Excellent Option for Transplant Candidates, Says Study

A national kidney paired donation program is a safe and effective way to treat patients with incompatible living donors, revealed study. In kidney paired donation, living donor kidneys a...

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