Science news articles about 'donor transplantation'
New protocol streamlines therapy that makes more kidney transplants possible
... program because of their highly sensitized state. For many patients, especially those awaiting a deceased-donor transplant, the combination of IVIG and rituximab appears to offer an alternative to ...Liver unit reports higher than average success rate for children receiving living donor transplants
... per cent of all liver transplants performed in Europe in 2004 and just under 10 per ... Korea and Taiwan, where living donors are the only source of transplant grafts as they do not tend to use the organs ...Study assesses potential health complications for obese kidney donors
... for kidney transplants grows, transplant centers are working to facilitate more live donor transplantations. However, there are many unanswered questions related to the potential long-term risks of ...New tools can better predict successful kidney transplant outcomes
... their patients. Using records from over 20,000 living donor transplant cases taken from the United Network for ... kidney function 1 year after transplant and 5-year transplant survival. By adding 3 ...Shorter wait means longer life for kidney transplant candidates
... Florida shows. The shorter the waiting time at a transplant center, the longer patients are likely to live. ... proportion of non-ideal donors and number of deceased-donor transplants a center does a year ...'Nature vs. nurture' study of deceased donor pairs in kidney transplantation
... of DGF and transplant failure within 19,461 recipient pairs having the same deceased donor and transplanted between 1995 and 2003, using data from the United States Renal Data System. It examined ...Nearly half of older patients projected to die while waiting for kidney transplant
... half of newly listed older candidates will not survive the interval to receive a deceased donor transplant," according to Dr. Schold. The results will help provide patients with specific information ...Older kidney transplant patients should more often consider live donors
... finding because African-Americans are substantially less likely than whites to receive a live donor transplant, regardless of age," Rodrigue said. "For those who are over 60, this is simply more bad ...Annual report targets chronic kidney disease in the United States
... 6 percent to 7 percent. Use of living donors fell 3 percent during that period, ... 45 percent of all living donor transplantations. For more information on kidney transplantation, visit: http://kidney. ...Kidney donation Web sites raise ethical concerns
... are superior to waiting for several years on the deceased donor transplant list while on dialysis. 38 ... living and deceased kidneys donated. However, donor-recipient matching services do not currently ...Changing the way organ donation requests are made could prevent relatives denying consent
... The person making the request is also key and the study concludes that in an ideal situation a donor transplant coordinator together with hospital staff would make the request. The following issues ...
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