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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"kidney transplant"”.
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Dopaminergic Genetic Contributions to Obesity in Kidney Transplant Recipients
<p><strong>Background:</strong> Kidney transplant recipients are a population who experience a high likelihood of gaining a significant amount of weight (between 6 and 13 kilograms) during the first year after transplantation. However, not all kidney transplant recipients gain weight. Studies have …
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Renal Transplant Survey: how standardised is a standard kidney transplant?
… if there are international standards in renal transplantation. Method: A questionnaire was created using an online survey tool (Qualtrics ®), and distributed to a list of email addresses supplied by the unit's senior transplant surgeon. A literature review was performed on the questions and on …
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Tuberculosis In paediatric kidney transplant recipients a single centre experience
… Tuberculosis remains a major challenge in transplantation particularly in endemic countries. The incidence, clinical manifestations, and optimal investigations for TB specifically in the paediatric post-transplant population have not yet been adequately studied. This study aims to describe …
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Genotypes and Clinical Characteristics of BK Virus in Kidney Transplant Recipients
… emerged as a major cause of allograft loss in kidney transplant recipients over the past decade. The presence of BK virus in urine or blood indicates reactivation of the virus not necessarily accompanied by BK virus associated nephropathy. BK virus genotypes have been described based on the DNA …
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Characterizing Dietary Intake and Physical Activity Affecting Weight Gain in Kidney Transplant Recipients
<p>Weight gain following kidney transplant is a significant problem with 50 to 90% of kidney transplant recipients gaining weight. Potential factors leading to weight gain following kidney transplantation have been thought to include a change in lifestyle such asdietary intake and physical …
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Sleep Disorders and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: Findings From an 18-Year (1997-2015) Historical Cohort Study
<p>A historic cohort study of kidney transplant recipients with a failed graft was conducted to examine the associations between sleep disorders and kidney transplant outcomes. Adult kidney transplant recipients who were transplanted and failed or died with a functioning graft during the designated …
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The relevance of performing 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure And pulse wave analysis in kidney transplant recipients
… but this is not routinely performed in kidney transplant units. This study was to determine if 24-hour ABPM, compared with office BP in kidney transplant recipients, would be more informative regarding BP management, and if pulse wave analysis (PWA) would assist in risk stratification. …
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Association of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Use with Kidney and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Stable Kidney Transplant Recipients
… in reducing cardiovascular events and improving kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes. Due to these hopeful improvements, kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) have started using GLP-1RA. However, their effects in KTRs remain largely unstudied in clinical studies. This thesis uses a …
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Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Nurse Led Inter-professional Collaborative Chronic Care Approach for Kidney Transplant Patients: The TARGET Study
… the achievement of clinical outcomes for adult kidney transplant chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, as compared to a traditional transplant nephrologist led approach in one Canadian hospital transplant setting. Methods: In this non-randomized, controlled study guided by the Chronic Care …
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Transplantability In Burdened Populations: A Regional Analysis of the Robotic-Assisted Kidney Transplant Impact On Access Given Socioeconomic And Demographic Factors
… The study evaluates whether the robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) technique allows for patients with higher body mass indices and of burdened socioeconomic and sociodemographic status improved access to transplant compared to traditional open kidney transplant (OKT).</p> …
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Preliminary design of an implantable boisensor for the detection and differentiation of acute rejection, vascular occlusion, and infection in the liver or kidney transplant graft
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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Understanding Core and Supportive Processes
… thus, decreasing the “physician referral to kidney transplant list” process by the Kidney Transplant Team. The existing processes takes nearly double the time of the national standard of ninety days. This is a time sensitive issue for those in need of a kidney transplant; therefore, our …
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Predicting Kidney Transplantation Using Prior Disease Diagnosis From Medicare Claims Data
<p>Kidney transplant prevalence and costs have been increasing steadily in the past few decades and this trend is anticipated to continue for years to come. Patient outcomes are heavily influenced by the amount of time they are waiting for a transplant and by the quality of care they are receiving …
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An Analysis of the Differences in Preemptive Kidney Transplantation Between Blacks and Whites
… are inequities in the allocation of cadaver kidneys for preemptive kidney transplants (PKT) between blacks and whites.</p> <p> <strong>Methods. </strong>This analysis uses descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate analyses to identify factors associated with the determination of …
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The Role of Transitional B cells in Kidney Transplantation Tolerance
… aimed at identifying biomarkers of tolerance in kidney transplant patients have revealed an expansion of peripheral blood B cells and over- expression of B cell-related genes. In humans, Memory, Naïve and Transitional B cells are the main B cell subsets found in circulation, and it is has been …
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Kidney Compatibility Score Generation for a Donor - Recipient pair using Fuzzy Logic
… the donor recipient pairs by predicting a kidney compatibility score. Donor – Recipient pair incompatibility is one of the major problems encountered in Renal Transplantation. Kidney Paired Donation is a barter system where the pairs exchange the donor organs to overcome the disadvantage of …
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Factors influencing the development of transplantation in Africa
Background Access to dialysis and transplantation in Africa is very limited. The challenges vary in different countries across the continent from legislative, to political, to financial. Aim To assess factors influencing the development of organ donation and transplantation in the African context. …
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Subjective frameworks of meaning of kidney transplantation among African recipients
… of African patients who have undergone a kidney transplant within the past ten years, either from a live donor or from a cadaver. The study further examines how these patients made (and still make) sense of the transplant experience, and hence attribute a particular subjective meaning to …
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Drop-out of children with end stage kidney failure from chronic Peritoneal dialysis and associated factors; a ten year review at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH), Cape Town, South Africa
… the child healthy and alive when in end stage kidney failure (ESKF) while being worked up for kidney transplant, the preferred treatment. Chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) is the preferred first choice of dialysis modality in many centers because of its advantages over hemodialysis (HD). In …
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A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Patient and Provider Perspectives of Chronic Illness Management Following Kidney Transplantation
… Inconsistent, fragmented care coordination in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs)—whose management requires long-term, complex care, and multiple handoffs among providers—has been shown to result in suboptimal care and higher costs. In order to move forward in improving long-term outcomes, it …
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