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Chain results in 10 kidney swaps among strangers
(AP) -- When Matthew Jones decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, the Michigan father of five had no idea he'd be starting a lifesaving, "pay it forward" chain. His kidney donation to a Phoenix woman in ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Transplant patient got AIDS from new kidney
(AP) -- A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Shipping kidneys for transplant is safe, research finds
Kidney transplants using organs from live donors work just as well if the kidneys are shipped -- be it across town or across the country -- as when the donors and recipients are operated on at the same hospital, new Johns ...
Jan 14, 2011 |
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Pilot transplant project aims to spur kidney swaps
(AP) -- Too often, would-be kidney donors are wasted because the friend or loved one they want to help isn't a match. Now a new national database promises to help find matches for those frustrated pairs so ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Kidney donors suffer few ill effects from life-giving act, landmark study finds
In a landmark study of more than 80,000 live kidney donors from across the United States, Johns Hopkins researchers have found the procedure carries very little medical risk and that, in the long term, people who donate one ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Md. doctor: Kidney transplant record achieved
(AP) -- A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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New computer models successfully link donors and kidney transplant patients
New computer models can now link strangers in a life-saving chain of kidney transplants, promising to increase the number of transplants and overcome obstacles posed by logistics or donors who renege, a team of researchers ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Survival matching should be used to allocate donated kidneys to transplant recipients
Providing kidney transplants to patients with the best probability of longer survival would reduce repeat transplant operations and improve life span after kidney transplant, says a U-M researcher in a commentary published ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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2 people receive kidney transplants in pilot program using CMU software
A man in St. Louis and a woman in New Hampshire have received the first kidney transplants made possible through a new national program of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) that uses a Carnegie Mellon ...
Dec 14, 2010 |
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First kidney paired donor transplants performed
Kathy Niedzwiecki of Pelham, NH, and Ken Crowder of St. Louis are experiencing renewed life and health thanks to the generosity of two living kidney donors.
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Unrelated kidney donor study shows age and obesity increase complications
Patients who have received a new kidney are significantly more likely to develop transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) if they are obese or over 50, according to research published in the September issue of the Journal of ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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Health disparities exist among black and Hispanic kidney donors
Black and Hispanic kidney donors are significantly more likely than white donors to develop hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, according to new Saint Louis University research published in the August 19, 2010 ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Kidneys from cardiac-death patients perform as well as those from brain-dead patients
The number of people on the kidney transplant waiting list in the UK continues to increase with over 7000 patients currently waiting for transplant and only 1600 kidney transplants performed from deceased donors each year. ...
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Robotic Kidney Transplantation New Option for Obese Patients
(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgeons at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the first successful robotic kidney transplant in a morbidly obese patient.
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Grassroots programs to encourage minority organ donation prove successful
Minority organ donations have more than doubled since the institution of grassroots awareness and education programs, according to a new retrospective study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of ...
Jun 02, 2010 |
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