Transplantation

Machine Preservation Significantly Improves Kidney Transplant Survival Over 3 … – Sacramento Bee


Machine Preservation Significantly Improves Kidney Transplant Survival Over 3 ...
Sacramento Bee
Machine perfusion or cold storage in deceased-donor kidney transplantation. N.Eng J Med 2012;366:770-1. 4. Johnston TD, Thacker LR, Jeon H et al. Sensitivity of expanded-criteria donor kidneys to cold ischaemia time. Clin Trans 2004;18:28-32. 5.

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How 30 Kidneys Linked 60 Lives – Kaiser Health News


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How 30 Kidneys Linked 60 Lives
Kaiser Health News
Many of the most prominent names in the field of kidney transplantation agree that the way to maximize the number of transplants through paired exchanges is to create a single, nationwide registry. ... And yet, more than a decade after the first organ ...
Kidney Transplantation Donor Chain Helps PatientsThirdAge

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The Medical City (TMC) Project of Apex Medical Group completed milestone – Middle East North Africa Financial Network


The Medical City (TMC) Project of Apex Medical Group completed milestone
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
He is one of the founders of the Living Related Liver Transplantation Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH) in Riyadh, KSA. The Promoters of this project have also been the founding members of many other scientific, professional and ...

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Kidney Transplantation Donor Chain Helps Patients – ThirdAge


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Kidney Transplantation Donor Chain Helps Patients
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Doctors say advances in technology and immunology, as well as the kindness of strangers, have improved the numbers for those in need of kidney donors. Kidney transplantations are often complicated procedures. Due to difficulties matching blood types ...

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Patient Education May Increase Access to Kidney Transplants – Renal Business Today


Patient Education May Increase Access to Kidney Transplants
Renal Business Today
The findings indicate that requiring a formal patient education class may help reduce inequities in kidney failure patients' access to kidney transplantation. Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for kidney failure.

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Liver transplant over, Anushka set to join playschool shortly – Times of India


Liver transplant over, Anushka set to join playschool shortly
Times of India
PATNA: Anushka underwent liver transplantation when she was one year old. Now she's two and half years old and her parents -- Rashmi and Samir -- want her to join play school. She's extremely mischievous and smart. She's the first girl child of Bihar ...

New ward complex at NCULTS to boost liver transplants – Daily Mirror


New ward complex at NCULTS to boost liver transplants
Daily Mirror
It costs nearly Rs. 30000 per month BY SANDUN A. JAYASEKERA One of the pioneering medical establishments in liver transplantation in the country, the North Colombo University Liver Transplantation Service (NCULTS) received a new ward complex ...

Lack of Unified System Hampers Kidney Transplant Efforts – New York Times


Lack of Unified System Hampers Kidney Transplant Efforts
New York Times
Many of the most prominent names in the field of kidney transplantation agree that the way to maximize the number of transplants through paired exchanges is to create a single, nationwide registry. That, they note, would vastly expand the pool of ...
Legalized Market for Human Kidneys: a Problem or a Panacea?OpEdNews

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Use of heart pumps to treat advanced heart failure increasing – Richmond Times Dispatch


Use of heart pumps to treat advanced heart failure increasing
Richmond Times Dispatch
"It's a hot topic," said Dr. Keyur B. Shah, a cardiologist and specialist in advanced heart failure and heart transplantation at VCU Medical Center's Pauley Heart Center. "We can look to the Europeans for comparison," Shah said.

Doctors’ prescription: Know your friendly liver – Indian Express


Doctors' prescription: Know your friendly liver
Indian Express
“Liver sustains life and we must understand that taking its care is as important as taking precautions to check diabetes, heart disease and obesity,” said Dr Subba Rao V Kanchustambam, Additional Director and Head, Centre for Liver Transplantation and ...

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