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    The Likelihood Of Being Assessed For Kidney Transplantation May Depend On Race, Insur

    A kidney transplant is the best treatment for kidney failure, which afflicts 2 million people worldwide. Young black patients and patients without private health insurance are less likely to be assessed for a kidney transplant when they start dialysis, according to a study appearing in an...
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    In Pediatric Kidney Transplant, Blood Condition Found To Be Highly Predictive Of Graf

    For children receiving kidney transplants, a potentially correctable blood condition present in about one in four recipients is associated with a moderately increased risk of the graft's later failure, suggesting that clinicians should weigh whether transplant is advisable when the condition is...
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    More Accurate Way To Estimate Kidney Function

    Measuring creatinine and cystatin C - two markers for chronic kidney disease (CKD) - more precisely estimates kidney function than either marker alone, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Results appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Glomerular filtration...
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    Stem Cells In The Embryonic Kidney

    Studying mice and humans, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and their collaborators in Paris have identified two proteins that are required to maintain a supply of stem cells in the developing kidney. In the presence of the two proteins, FGF9 and FGF20, mouse...
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    Kidney Failure In Type 2 Diabetes May Not Be Reduced By Aggressive Glucose Control

    Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that intensively controlling glucose (glycemic) levels in type-2 diabetes patients may not reduce the risk of kidney failure. The study, which is a review of data from seven clinical trials, is published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal...
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    Modern Family Star Sarah Hyland Reveals She Had Kidney Transplant

    Modern Family star Sarah Hyland quickly learned the importance of, well, family—and then some—after recently undergoing a kidney transplant. The 21-year-old actress reveals...
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    Kidney Donation Hindered By Obesity

    Researchers at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research conducted a retrospective analysis which found that morbid obesity impedes kidney donation. In fact, in the analysis of 104 potential living kidney donors, 23 (22 percent) donors were...
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    Had blood in urine and took CT scan, found a unobstructing kidney stone in my...

    ...kidney! doctor says wait a year? Had blood in urine once alst week and freaked out, my pee returned to normal after 1 pee but I went to the doctors and took CT scan without contrast in the abdomin, found an unobstructing kidney stone in my kidney! doctor says wait a year and then do an ultra...
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    Had blood in urine and took CT scan, found a unobstructing kidney stone in my...

    ...kidney! doctor says wait a year? Had blood in urine once alst week and freaked out, my pee returned to normal after 1 pee but I went to the doctors and took CT scan without contrast in the abdomin, found an unobstructing kidney stone in my kidney! doctor says wait a year and then do an ultra...
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    Care For Kidney Disease Patients Not Improved By Physician Reminders

    Laboratory-based treatment reminders meant to improve physicians' prescribing habits for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) may not be effective, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate...
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    Despite Survival Benefit, Thousands Of Seniors Lack Access To Lifesaving Kidney Trans

    Thousands more American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could get them if physicians would get past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The Hopkins investigators...
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    New Robotic-Assisted Technology Transforms Treatment Of Kidney Tumors

    The Porter Robotics Institute (PRI) now offers the latest in advanced surgical robotics available to patients with kidney tumors, allowing surgeons the ability to remove just a portion of the kidney. Porter Adventist Hospital is among a handful of centers in the country with advanced...
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    Kidney Patients Have Better Chances In Germany

    In complex cases of kidney failure, medical care in Germany evidently operates better than in the US. Scientists at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to show that German patients who have an increased risk of rejection reactions due to prior immunization have better survival rates...
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    Chimerix Announces Late-Breaking Poster Presentation At Kidney Week 2011 Annual Meeti

    Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, today announced a late-breaking poster presentation at the American Society of Nephrology's (ASN) Kidney Week 2011 Annual Meeting being held November 8-13, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. V. Ram Peddi, MD...
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    A Simpler System Would Make It Easier For Clinicians To Treat Kidney Problems In Lupu

    The current classification system for kidney complications in patients with lupus is too detailed, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results should make it easier for physicians to classify and treat kidney problems...
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    Substance In The Blood Blocks Repair And Contributes To Kidney Failure

    In some kidney diseases, patients have high blood levels of a protein that blocks blood vessel repair, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Inhibiting the protein may reduce patients' risk of developing kidney failure...
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    Gene Mutations Predict Early, Severe Kidney Disease

    The most common kidney disease passed down through families, autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) affects one in 400 to 1,000 individuals and is characterized by cysts on the kidneys. The condition slowly gets worse and leads to kidney failure. Most ADPKD cases arise in adults...
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    Good Rate Of Successful Pregnancies Following Kidney Transplant

    A new study recently published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that the ability to successfully carry a pregnancy after kidney transplantation is very high, with 73.5% live birth rates. Researchers led by Dorry Segev, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University performed a systematic...
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    Novartis Drug Afinitor® Effective In Patients With Non-Cancerous Kidney Tumors Associ

    A Phase III study of Afinitor® (everolimus) tablets* in patients with non-cancerous kidney tumors, or angiomyolipomas, associated with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) met its primary endpoint of best overall angiomyolipoma response rate, which includes reduction in kidney tumor size and absence...
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    Hormone Predicts Which Kidney Patients Might Die Early

    The blood levels of a particular hormone can help predict which kidney disease patients will develop heart problems, need dialysis, and die prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Testing for this hormone could...
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