Maintaining sufficient red blood cell levels is important to the physical and mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that preventing anemia in kidney disease patients should be an integral part of their care.
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WARREN— Jay Menhennet won’t be making it to the polls today. Instead, he’ll be in surgery receiving a kidney transplant.
It won’t be his first transplant, however.
In February 2000, after experiencing renal failure, Menhennet’s wife, Jenny, donated a kidney to save her husband’s life.
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The intense appeals to save University Medical Center’s kidney transplant program from losing its Medicare funding have overshadowed fundamental patient safety problems revealed by inspectors.
Hospital Chief Executive Kathy Silver acknowledged failures in management of the program, even as she argued that it should remain open.
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Recent years have seen huge advances in transplant medicine, but more research is urgently needed to improve the long-term prospects of transplant patients, according to researchers, doctors and patient representatives at a meeting in Brussels, Belgium organised by the EU-funded TRIE (’Transplantation research integration in Europe’) project.
Approximately 250,000 people in Europe are living with a functional organ transplant and every year some 15,000 kidney transplants, 5,000 liver transplants, 2,000 heart transplants and 1,000 lung transplants as well as thousands of bone-marrow transplants are carried out.
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Kelsey Crider, 19, of Boulder was diagnosed with kidney failure when she was 17.
BOULDER — Twice in one year Kelsey Crider walked out the door, believing she’d never return. Both times, failed kidney transplants sent the Boulder teen back to the dialysis center for treatments.
Three times a week, Kelsey sits in a chair for four hours at the DaVita Boulder Dialysis Center, hooked up to needles and tubes attached to a machine that filters impurities from her blood and removes excess fluid. Sometimes the Front Range Community College student does homework. Other times she reads, talks to her mother or watches television.
“It’s so boring,” said Kelsey, 19, who has had seven surgeries since being diagnosed with medullary cystic kidney disease. “I get antsy.”
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of nearly 1,500 patients treated for kidney cancer at the University of California-Los Angeles in the last 15 years indicates that patients may benefit from an individualized treatment approach.
The one-size-fits-all treatment approach traditionally used for kidney cancer should be changed based on the results of this study, the researchers say.
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