News tagged with kidney donation

Hopkins transplant surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina

In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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Clinician and patient preferences clash over information sharing before transplantation

Most kidney donors and recipients are in favor of exchanging personal health information that may influence success before scheduling a living organ donor transplant, while healthcare professionals are more reluctant, according ...

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created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Philippines claims success on organ trafficking

The Philippines said Wednesday that efforts to stop poor people from selling their kidneys to rich and mostly foreign patients had worked.

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created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Britain to outlaw most private organ transplants

(AP) -- The British government said Friday that it plans to ban private organ transplants from dead donors to allay fears that prospective recipients can buy their way to the front of the line.

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created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Talking increases kidney donation

Get-togethers with a kidney disease patient's family and friends can improve their willingness to consider donation, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...

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