Latest Kidney transplantation Stories

Research: Cardiovascular disease in kidney donors: Matched cohort study Living kidney donors are at no greater risk of heart disease than the healthy general population, finds a study published on bmj.com today. The results provide important safety reassurances to donors, their recipients and transplant professionals. In the general population, there is a strong link between reduced kidney function and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Given that people who donate a kidney...

Complication rates are low even in patients with advanced kidney disease Highlights     Kidney disease patients experience low complication rates after weight-loss surgery.     Maintaining weight loss is challenging for kidney disease patients, and obesity can limit their eligibility for kidney transplants.     Long-term studies are needed to determine whether the potential benefits of weight-loss surgery outweigh risks for kidney disease patients. Weight-loss surgery is...

LAWRENCE, Mass. and SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ADC 2012 Booth B -- NxStage® Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that it is participating in several industry-focused educational presentations on more frequent home hemodialysis with the NxStage System One(TM) at the Annual Dialysis Conference (ADC) 2012. NxStage will also host a special reception event, featuring celebrity kidney transplant patient and...

CHICAGO, February 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Study results published today in the New-England-Journal of Medicine show that 3-year graft survival is significantly greater in all transplanted kidneys machine perfused in the LifePort(R) Kidney Transporter compared to those stored in a traditional box of ice (static cold storage) (91% vs. 87%, p=0.04).[1] The graft survival difference at three years was most pronounced for kidneys from expanded criteria donors (86% vs. 76%,...

Classes spur patients to get evaluated for a kidney transplant Highlights     Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for kidney failure patients, but blacks are less likely to receive kidney transplants than whites.     Kidney failure patients—particularly blacks and those living in poor neighborhoods—who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant.     Requiring a formal patient education class may help reduce...

Kidney transplant patient of ten years and nine years of dialysis has the expertise to come up with “My Blood Works” for a multi-functional health tracker APP. He knows what users should be tracking, such as blood pressure, blood tests and a whole lot more. (PRWEB) February 15, 2012 Who better to come up with an APP for tracking health than one who’s had three kidney transplants and nine years of dialysis over a fourteen year period, and ten years out of third transplant and knows...

ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry reported Abbott's (NYSE: ABT) ARCHITECT® Tacrolimus assay provides accurate and consistent medication monitoring for patients taking tacrolimus, an immunosuppressive medication, after receiving solid organ transplantation. Tacrolimus is a calcineurin inhibitor often used in patients to help prevent organ rejection. For continued organ survival, a transplant patient must be...

Cochlear implants may be a safe, effective option for some organ transplant patients who've lost their hearing as an unfortunate consequence of their transplant-related drug regime, researchers report. The antibiotics and immunosuppressive drugs required by organ transplant patients can cause deafness, said Dr. Brian J. McKinnon, otologist and neurotologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University. Antibiotics can destroy the finite number of dark cells in...

A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that racial disparities exist in both the early and late steps in access to kidney transplantation. This study is part of the February special themed issue of the journal on racial disparity. Led by Rachel E. Patzer, PhD, MPH, of the Emory Transplant Center in Atlanta, Georgia, researchers examined 2,291 adult patients referred for renal transplant evaluation at a single transplant center in the Southeastern U.S. from...

VIENNA, Va., Feb. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Currently, there are more than 112,000 patients on the national organ transplant waiting list. These candidates often endure difficult yet necessary life-sustaining treatments while waiting for potential organ matches. Nineteen people die every day while waiting, and those that are eventually transplanted can endure wait times that can extend anywhere from 5-9 years. The need for life-saving organ transplants was recently...