MU hospital's organ donation program honored
UM Maneater The hospital achieved a 75 percent organ conversion rate over the past year, meaning that 75 percent of eligible, deceased donors who have signed up to … |
Giving a kidney, Marine gives hope – The State
Giving a kidney, Marine gives hope
The State Most transplanted kidneys are harvested from deceased donors, said Lucia Miles, living-donor transplant coordinator at the Charleston hospital. … |
Beliefs thwart organ donation programmes – National
Beliefs thwart organ donation programmes
National Activists say opposition to organ extraction can be so strong that they are often subjected to physical and verbal abuse from relatives of deceased donors. … |
Partial versus radical nephrectomy for 4 to 7 cm renal cortical tumors – Abstract – UroToday
Partial versus radical nephrectomy for 4 to 7 cm renal cortical tumors – Abstract
UroToday Recent observations suggest that partial nephrectomy for small renal tumors may be associated with improved survival compared with radical nephrectomy. … |
Antegrade mini-invasive nephroureterectomy: laparoscopic nephrectomy … – UroToday
Antegrade mini-invasive nephroureterectomy: laparoscopic nephrectomy …
UroToday AMNUE starts with a laparoscopic nephrectomy in the flank position. The specimen is enclosed in a bag without dividing the ureter, and the patient is … |
Doctors at GH begin campaign for skin, bone donation – Times of India
Doctors at GH begin campaign for skin, bone donation
Times of India CHENNAI: The first brain death declaration at the Government General Hospital (GH), which happened about a week ago, should have ideally resulted in a … |
Affordable anti-rejection drug effective – United Press International
Affordable anti-rejection drug effective
United Press International … antithymocyte globulin, which costs about four times more for its multi-dose treatment than alemtuzumab, and is marketed under the name Thymoglobulin. … |
No CV risk reduction with B vitamins posttransplant – TheHeart.Org
No CV risk reduction with B vitamins posttransplant
TheHeart.Org To be eligible, they had to have a functioning renal allograft for at least six months and have tHcy levels of at least 11 µmol/L for women or 12 µmol/L for … |
Heart transplant patient gets back to life – Daily News – Galveston County
Heart transplant patient gets back to life
Daily News – Galveston County “It's probably the greatest gift,” Dr. Karen Kislingbury, a physician assistant and post heart transplant coordinator at the University of Texas Medical … |
Kidney Walk moves to Statehouse for event Sunday – Delaware News
Kidney Walk moves to Statehouse for event Sunday
Delaware News Girscht was on dialysis for two years before he received his first call of two from the transplant coordinator on Feb. 26, 2001. "When the first call came … |