Kidney Transplant Worth the Wait
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Even though patients are waiting longer for a kidney transplant, those who do get one live longer than those who remain on dialysis, according to data presented last
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A Colorado man who placed a &quot;transplant wanted&quot; ad on a Massachusetts-based Internet site is expected today to receive a kidney donated by a total stranger who simply wanted to do &quot;something big.&quot; The transaction marks the first time an organ transplant has been brokered by a commercial web company.
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Extremely obese adults in need  of a kidney transplant appear to wait longer for a donor organ  than their thinner counterparts do, a study has found.
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An artificial heart does an effective job of keeping heart-transplant candidates alive until -- and even after -- a donor organ becomes available, cardiologists report.
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A man who turned to the Internet in hopes of finding a kidney donor underwent dialysis Wednesday to prepare to receive his new organ, two days after a surgeon decided not to perform the procedure because of questions about the practice of Web matching.
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The art and science of successfully harvesting an organ from one body to give new life to another turns 50 today. Since the first successful kidney transplant by Dr.
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When my kidneys failed, I thought I'd have to wait for an anonymous donor.
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Advances in medical science have made transplant surgery a desired treatment for some serious diseases. Unfortunately, while the number of patients needing a transplant increases, the availability of donated organs remains small.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study shows.
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Kidney exchanges are helping doctors shorten transplant waiting lists, but they also pose serious challenges.
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Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than normal weight people, and when they do, their wait is an average of a year to 18 months longer, a new study found.
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NEW YORK  - Outpatient care focusing on improving kidney function is associated with a reduced risk of death in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease, researchers report in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Eddie Knipp's two heart transplants have given him the wisdom to savor the small wonders of life and the strength to endure one of its largest losses &#151; the death of a child. On Tuesday, Knipp and nine other heart transplant recipients celebrated more than 20 years of survival after surgery at the place that made it possible: the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
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Washington Redskins cornerback Shawn Springs said yesterday that his ailing father, Ron, has found a match for a kidney transplant, and it happens to be an old friend.
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DENVER -- A Colorado man underwent a kidney transplant Wednesday in what is believed to be the first such operation involving an organ obtained through a for-profit Web site -- a transaction that has raised legal and ethical questions.
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NEW YORK  - Blacks with chronic lung disease on the waiting list for lung transplantation before 2005 were more likely to die or be removed from the list than were white patients, according to New York investigators.
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VANCOUVER -- Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.