Kidney Cancer News

His ordeal has a happy ending, but what an ordeal it's been: A near fatal encounter with a deadly flower; renal failure; four weeks of kidney dialysis and, finally, a $15,000 kidney transplant at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hackensack University Medical Center reactivated its Adult Kidney Transplantation Program on May 16 with Dr.

May 20, 2013 - Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too long without blood or oxygen.

Fewer children died waiting for organ transplants in the past decade after policy changes to the national organ allocation system, researchers stated.

College graduation can be a joyous time for a family- maybe a bit stressful too - but for a young woman about to graduate from La Salle on Sunday there's another big event ahead.

For one north Iowa family, pampering and a day of activities is just the key to help take their minds off of everyday life dealing with a serious illness.

Mohamed Haidar is waiting for the phone call that will change his life. The 21-year-old Henry Ford Community College student needs a kidney transplant, but finding a donor has been almost impossible.

Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.

Hackensack University Medical Center received federal approval Friday to restart its kidney transplant program, a year after it shut down because of higher-than-expected rates of death and kidney failure.

A COUPLE who lost their life-saving kidney dialysis machine when it fell out of their van are delighted after it was found.

Taylor Simpson received a kidney from her mother, Lori Vargas, after being diagnosed with Goodpasture syndrome, a rare and life-threatening autoimmune disease.

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology ; Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Article Date: 17 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of ... (more)

She says she's met death face to face many times but she isn't willing to give up.

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Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study.

Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation .

The Kidney Transplant Disease and Therapy Review provides procedure rates and prevalence numbers and percentages for major countries worldwide.

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