Tanzania: State Eyes High Quality Services At BMH
[Daily News] Dodoma -- Government's efforts to bring specialised and super specialised services closer to the people is gathering momentum with Dodoma based Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) planning to establish a kidney transplant complex and cardiovascular and thoracic centres in this financial year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 2, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Tanzania Source Type: news
Success With HIV-to-HIV Kidney Transplants
(MedPage Today) -- Three people living with HIV had promising outcomes after donating kidneys to three others with HIV, according to a prospective study within the HOPE in Action Multicenter Consortium.
Among the three living donors, grade 3 or... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - July 31, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Kidney Transplants From HIV-Positive Patients Likely To Save Lives
A new study in Lancet showed that it is safe for HIV + people to be living kidney donors. Hopefully, this will prompt more organ donation from HIV positive people. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 30, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news
'Give the gift of life!' Mum makes plea after two year hunt for kidney for son
A mum has made an urgent plea for more people to become organ donors after waiting two years for a kidney transplant for her son. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HRQoL in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Can We Do Better? HRQoL in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Can We Do Better?
Symptom burden after kidney transplantation differs between men and women, and better understanding these differences will lead to improvements in health-related quality of life.Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nephrology Journal Article Source Type: news
Promise in Chronic Kidney Disease for 3 New Agents Promise in Chronic Kidney Disease for 3 New Agents
Agents from three novel drug classes showed safety and hints of efficacy in patients with varying stages of chronic kidney disease in three phase 2 studies at the European Renal Association Congress.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - July 17, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Nephrology News Source Type: news
Ghana: KBTH Medical Team Performs Life-Saving Kidney Transplant On 2
[Ghanaian Times] A combined medical and surgical team at the Korle Bu Teaching (KBTH) in Accra have successfully performed a life-saving kidney transplant procedure on two individuals suffering from end-stage kidney disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 14, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Ghana Health and Medicine West Africa Source Type: news
Factors Influencing Kidney Transplantation Rates Factors Influencing Kidney Transplantation Rates
Insight into the factors that may explain the differences in kidney transplantation rates could help identify key areas in need of improvement.Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplantation Journal Article Source Type: news
Trends in Kidney Transplantation Rate Across Europe Trends in Kidney Transplantation Rate Across Europe
Data from the ERA registry provides insight into the trends in kidney transplantation rates in Europe. What has changed, and how do the rates differ between countries?Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplantation Journal Article Source Type: news
Africa: Human Organs for Transplant - 5 Steps Africa Must Take to Improve the Supply Chain
[The Conversation Africa] Medical science has made tremendous advancements over the past 70 years. One of these is the transplant of human organs from one person to another. The first transplant - a kidney - was in the US in 1954. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 23, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Source Type: news
How to deep freeze an entire organ —and bring it back to life
MINNEAPOLIS—
The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one.
Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray. In the past 6 hours, it had been plucked from the abdomen of a white lab rat, pumped full of a black fluid, stuck in a freezer cooled to –150°C, and zapped by a powerful magnet.
Now, in a cramped, windowless room on the 11th floor of the University of Minnesota’s (UMN’s) Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, Rao lifted the kidney from a small plastic box and gently laid it...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
New Dialysis Technique Boosts Survival in Kidney Failure New Dialysis Technique Boosts Survival in Kidney Failure
High-dose hemodiafiltration led to substantially better survival of patients with end-stage kidney disease compared with conventional hemodialysis after a median 30 months in a large, prospective study.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - June 16, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Nephrology News Source Type: news
Predicting Hypothyroid Onset in Adults With Kidney Disease Predicting Hypothyroid Onset in Adults With Kidney Disease
Researchers derived and validated a prediction model for incident hypothyroidism in adults with stage 4-5 chronic kidney disease with an eGFR of less than 30 mL/min/1.73m2.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - June 14, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news
Letermovir Noninferior for CMV Prophylaxis in Kidney Recipients
TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 -- Letermovir is noninferior to valganciclovir for prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) among CMV-seronegative kidney transplant recipients who receive an organ from a CMV-seropositive donor, according to a study published... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Histopathologic Findings in Autopsy Kidneys of COVID-19 Patients Histopathologic Findings in Autopsy Kidneys of COVID-19 Patients
This meta-analysis investigated the postmortem histopathologic manifestations and the rate of SARS-CoV-2 detection in kidney tissues from deceased COVID-19 patients.American Journal of Clinical Pathology (Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Headlines - June 13, 2023 Category: Transplant Surgery Tags: Pathology & Lab Medicine Journal Article Source Type: news
