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Kidney Transplantation

By carcino on  From carcinomascancer.com
Understanding the Kidney Transplant Kidney Transplantation Kidney transplantation is a practice that puts a healthy kidney from another person into your body. This one new kidney takes over the work of your two failed kidneys. Kidney transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease . Once a person’s kidneys fail, three medication alternatives are on hand: hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. If you suffer advanced and...Read Full Story

UCSF Medical Center statement on transplants

By gmatsuki on  From donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com
ABC & KGO-TV San Francisco Statement from Reece I Fawley, executive director, Health Plan Strategy and Transplantation at UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospital UCSF does not reject potential transplant patients based on their immigration status. Our priority is to provide the highest quality, safest care for our patients. For kidney transplant patients, surgery is just the starting point of a lifetime of treatment that is complicated and expensive. All patients who move near the...Read Full Story

Black History Month - Dr. Samuel Lee Kountz - Pioneer of Organ Transplant Surgery - Performed First Kidney Transplant

By gmatsuki on  From donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com
The Black Oklahoman Samuel Lee Kountz Jr. was a physician and pioneer in organ transplantation, particularly renal transplant research and surgery. An Arkansas success story, he overcame the limitations of his childhood as an African American in the Delta region of a racially segregated state to achieve national and world prominence in the medical field. Samuel Lee Kountz, the eldest son of a Baptist minister, was born in Lexa, Arkansas, in 1930. He first became interested in medicine at the...Read Full Story

Heart Transplant

By carcino on  From carcinomascancer.com
Heart Transplant to Save Lives heart transplant Heart transplant is a surgical procedure is performed transplantation in patients. Heart transplant is surgery to remove a person’s diseased heart and replace it with a healthy heart from a deceased donor. Most heart transplants are performed on patients who have end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease . Heart transplants are done as a measure to save lives of end-stage heart failure. Because donor hearts are scarce...Read Full Story

Study suggests racial role in kidney transplants

By gmatsuki on  From donatelife-organdonation.blogspot.com
Medpage today | Michael Smith Black patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) had a 59% lower rate of kidney transplant than whites in one southeastern center, researchers reported. An analysis of more than 2,200 patients treated at the Emory Transplant Center showed marked racial disparities in access to referral, transplant evaluation, waitlisting, and eventual transplant, according to Rachel Patzer, PhD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues. Clinical, demographic, and...Read Full Story
Let's make one thing clear: Even if Jesus Navarro doesn't get the kidney transplant he was about to receive when doctors at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center discovered his undocumented immigration status last month, his ...  
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Some people who undergo organ transplants lose their hearing as a side-effect of the antibiotics and immunosuppressive drugs they have to take. And while cochlear implants that restore hearing can raise the risk of getting ear infections and are ...  
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(HealthDay News) – The newly updated seventh edition American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system accurately predicts the risk of recurrence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) in high-risk heart and lung transplant recipients ...  
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MARTINSBURG - As Hedgesville High School homebound senior Victoria "Tori" Chakwin recovers from a recent double lung transplant surgery, fellow Berkeley County students are rallying to support her.  
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Liver transplant recipient Hinch, 68, will be joined by former Painters and Dockers frontman Paulie Stewart, 50, who had a liver transplant after contracting hep C, as well as other rockers. Hinch will perform You Are So Beautiful, an old favourite he's ...  
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The joint operations were done by Indian surgeon Subash Gupta, a senior transplant doctor of Apollo Hospital in Delhi, and three of his colleagues and the three-member Pakistani team of Tariq Bangash, Khawar Shahzad and Umer Ali. "The joint venture of ...  
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— In Florida, a young man tragically is struck by a car and dies. And in Pennsylvania, another man gets a new lease on life – thanks to the generosity of organ donation. Richard Burkert, president of Johnstown Area Heritage Association, received a ...  
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