People who have kidney transplants need longer-term support than most friends, relatives or even healthcare professionals realise, according to a study of 160 patients published in the December issue of the UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing. Researchers surveyed 55 patients who had undergone surgery in the last year, together with 105 who had had surgery in the last one to three years at the Vanderbilt...
CHENNAI: The Government Kilpauk Hospital has now become the third State-run hospital in the city to perform cadaver kidney transplants. The transplantation was done on a 42-year-old man, who had been undergoing dialysis there for the last two ...
Kidney transplant recipients are already at increased risks for a variety of problems. According to a new Hungarian study patients with sleep apnea face an increased of high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.
Ivan Klasnic reveals the story behind his two kidney transplants and the debt he owes his family Ivan Klasnic winces as he remembers the day his life was turned upside down. It was November 2005 and Werder Bremen had just beaten Udinese 4-3 in the Champions League. But for the striker whose goals had helped get them into Europe's premier club competition it was the start of an ordeal that would almost...
A woman whose life was saved when her father donated a kidney ten years ago has now had a life-saving transplant from her mother. Telegraph.co.uk The second kidney donation marks the end of a long journey for Julie Robson and her family. Ten years ago Julie's father Bob, 56, donated his kidney, but her body sadly began to reject the organ. And the health complications that followed eventually lead...
John Franco, Ed Hearn, and Jim Duquette will be at the Ceasars Club in Citi Field tonight for the NephCure Foundation’s annual Countdown to a Cure, helping to raise awareness and money to fight two potentially devastating kidney diseases. Duquette’s daughter, Lindsay, suffers from kidney disease, while Hearn, who has had three kidney transplants, is an Ambassador [...]
Fifty individuals who had lost hope of ever having the kidney transplants that would save their lives have reason to celebrate today as Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital announced a national transplant milestone - its 50th paired kidney exchange transplant.
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifty individuals who had lost hope of ever having the kidney transplants that would save their lives have reason to celebrate today as Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital announced a national transplant milestone – its 50th paired kidney exchange transplant. This unprecedented number of exchange transplants at a single center makes the San Antonio program...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dialysis patients at The Rogosin Institute experience better health outcomes and have better access to kidney transplants than patients nationwide, a study of patient outcomes has shown. According to the 2009 national Dialysis Facility Report of all dialysis centers, Rogosin patients were shown to live longer, have fewer hospitalizations and receive more transplants than...
BRITAIN’S first three-way series of kidney transplants is planned to take place within weeks. It will involve three donors and three recipients. Each couple will be a husband and wife, parent and child or brother and sister, but the donor will give away one of their organs so that their loved one gets a suitable match from a stranger.
It turns out that Slovenians are sick and tired of having their health care system compared to the miserly American system. Today a red faced Nicholas Kristof apologizes to Slovenia . Kristof's column is a sad and resounding condemnation of the United States for its abject failure to take care of its own people. Countries with far fewer resources do a far superior job of attending to the health needs...
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