Articles tagged Kidney Transplant.
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If you are in need of a certain donor organ, you probably got through a lot of emotions. This article will explain to you all you need to know about this procedure. Keep reading!
Published 30 September 2019
Kidney transplantation is a must for many patients suffering from chronic renal diseases. After all, being dependent on hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is time-consuming, not to mention that patients using it live shorter than others who got a kidney transplant.
Published 12 February 2019
Cross-kidney transplant, also known as a kidney paired transplant or kidney paired donation, is a promising alternative for patients who need kidney transplantation but their donors turn up to be not suitable ( positive ) as a result of cross-matching from blood and tissue testing. In a cross-kidney transplant, patients who cannot accept their own partner's kidney for immunological reasons are giv
Published 18 December 2017
Kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD), means your kidneys are not working well enough for you to survive without dialysis or a kidney transplant. Kidney failure is the last stage of chronic kidney disease.
Published 27 November 2017
Kidney transplantation is a life-saving treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). There are several factors such as the degree of HLA compatibility between donor and the recipient, pretransplant blood transfusions, the recipient's state of immunoreactivity and sensitization, immunosuppressive therapy is given in post-operative period, etc. is determining together the su
Published 8 November 2017
According to the declaration of renal experts from European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association and American Society of Nephrology, chronic kidney diseases affect more than 850 million people worldwide as of 2018. This is twice the number of diabetics (422 million) and more than 20 times the number of people with cancer (42 million). 10 percent of men and nearly 12 per
Published 18 July 2017
Kidneys are twin organs positioned in the lower abdomen. As much as one-third of all the blood pumped by the heart passes into the kidneys to be filtered before traveling to the rest of the body's tissues. While you can live with only one functioning kidney, the loss of both kidneys leads to a rapid accumulation of waste within a few days.
Published 13 March 2017
European Renal Association, European Dialysis and Transplant Association and American Society of Nephrology together have declared that chronic kidney diseases affect more than 850 million people worldwide as of 2018. This is twice the number of diabetics and more than 20 times the number of people with cancer. 10.5 million people among them suffer from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and need dial
Published 30 January 2017
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