“In this month’s BMC Nephrology blog, Editor Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah explores the difficulty of predicting pretransplant hemodialysis duration for dialysis patients cleared for transplanation, and discusses associated potential complications and consequences of this process.”
Read the full blog post by Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah here.
“In his interview with NewsNation, he explained how Roberto Cuebas’ death gave him life. He also discussed a new app called AlloCare, to be released soon, and how the technology could help patents in the care regimen”
Read the full article and watch the interview here.
“It’s definitely part of my calling, helping people,” she said. “Even just reading his story and seeing his picture on the Facebook page, he was the cutest thing ever.” Pikkarainen, a traveling nurse from Minnesota, was working with COVID-19 patients in New Jersey when she heard about Bodie. “I filled out the paperwork right then and there,” she recalled.
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“Organ transplantation works for people who have end-stage organ failure. In almost all cases, it works better for people with kidney, liver, and lung failure than any other treatment available. People come to the organ donation waiting list because they know an organ transplant is a gift of life. That means that as good as our system is, it needs to be even better to be able to serve the more than 100,000 people waiting for organs at any given time.”
Read the full blog post from UNOS here.
Read the full update here.
Read all about the procedure at UI Health here.
Read the entire heartfelt story here.
Read all about how Selena Gomez is proud to show off her sign of survival here.
Did you know that the first liver transplant was done at the University of Colorado in 1963?
The development of cyclosporine in the 1970’s lead to an increased success rate in kidney transplantation.
Dr. Thomas Starzl, known as the “father of modern transplant”, was born on March 11, 1926.
In 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was performed between twin brothers in Boston.
1967 was not only the year of the Beatles releasing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but also when the first human to human heart transplant was successfully performed.
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John Brockington (Former NFL Packers), kidney transplant recipient talks about how he stays in shape during COVID.