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Liver Transplant Policy Change Increases Kidney Failure Risk

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— The risk for kidney failure among liver transplant recipients is higher following the implementation of Model of End Stage Liver Disease (MELD), a policy change in 2002 that altered how liver transplant allocation is decided, according to University of ...More
4 weeks ago
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Mayo Makes Kidney Transplants Available to HIV Patients

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—The Mayo Clinic in Florida is now offering kidney and pancreas transplants to HIV positive patients with advanced kidney disease and diabetes. ...More
December 7, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Transplant Recipients Have High Cancer Risk

WASHINGTON—Organ transplant recipients in the United States have a high risk of developing 32 different types of cancer, according to a study published in the Nov. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. ...More
November 2, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
People Over 70 Can Safely Donate Kidney

WASHINGTON—People over age 70 years of age can safely donate a kidney, according to a study appearing online Oct. 28 in the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). ...More
October 28, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
New Policy Reduces Racial Disparity in Transplantation

NEW YORK—A change in the kidney allocation policy dramatically reduced the racial disparity between the rates at which African Americans and whites receive deceased donor kidney transplants (DDKT), according to a study published in the November issue of the American Journal ...More
October 26, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
African Americans More Likely to Donate Kidney to Family Member

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — African Americans donate almost exclusively to family members for living kidney transplants, as compared to Caucasians, according to a study published in the September/October online issue of Clinical Transplantation. ...More
October 19, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
2011 USRDS Report By the Numbers

The following slides highlight some of the major ESRD-related highlights from the latest USRDS report, which was released in mid-October. ...More
October 18, 2011
Posted in Galleries, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Researchers Uncover Cause of Hypertension From Antirejection Drugs

PORTLAND, Ore.—Researchers have discovered the process that could be causing side effects from antirejection transplant drugs, according to a study in Nature Medici ...More
October 10, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma
Good News from the Staff-Assisted Home Dialysis Story

In early August, I visited Renal CarePartners’ staff-assisted home dialysis program in Atlanta, and as part of the report, Cindy Gough was kind enough to allow me into her home while she dialyzed in order to see how the program actually worked. ...More
September 27, 2011
Posted in Blog
Transplant Patients Could Avoid Toxic Drug

WASHINGTON—New research has found that transplant patients can minimize or avoid using potentially harmful immunosuppresive drugs called calcineurin inhibitors, according to a study published online Sept. 22 in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). ...More
September 23, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma

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