Paired donor exchange kidney transplantation is a process in which unrelated kidney donors are matched to recipients so that compatible transplants can be performed.
COVID Worsens Outcomes for Kidney Disease Patients by Colleen Fleiss on April 9, 2021 at 11:10 PM
Due to COVID-19 pandemic people with kidney problems are at 40 times increased risk of hospitalization and death, say researchers.
Approximately 800,000 people receive treatment for kidney failure in the United States, either by undergoing dialysis or living with a kidney transplant.
Among patients undergoing dialysis, the rate of Covid-19 hospitalisations peaked between March 22 and April 25, last year.
‘The risks of dying from any cause were 17 per cent and 30 per cent higher during the second quarter of 2020 (COVID-19) among patients receiving dialysis and patients with kidney transplants, respectively.
Urine Test Helps Detect Kidney Transplant Rejection by Karishma Abhishek on March 9, 2021 at 8:23 AM
Twenty percent of patients experience kidney transplant rejection even after a long waiting time till 6years. The recipient s immune cells recognize the newly received kidney as a foreign organ and thus on refusing the acceptance of the donor s antigens, results in transplant rejection. invasive biopsy procedures, (that requires multiple days of hospitalization and risks of complications) or creatinine blood tests (do not always yield definitive results). Moreover 70-80 percent of biopsies end up being normal.
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Kidney Transplant Evaluation Permits Patients to be Assessed from Home by Angela Mohan on December 21, 2020 at 8:30 PM
Virtual telehealth platform is allowing the surgery program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to assess and wait-list patients for kidney transplantation in spite of decreased reductions in direct, in-person health care visits brought about by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Between April and September, surgical teams have been able to perform more transplant evaluations and add the same number of patients to the wait list as they did in the same period last year, according researchers whose study was selected for the 2020 Southern Surgical Association Program and published online as an article in press by the