“Right now I’m 52, I should be at about 80% kidney function," she said. "I’m at 12%, so in need of a transplant.” After some 40 family and friends were tested to see if they were a ...

aDepartments of Surgery, New York University, New York, NY, USA bDepartment of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA ...

Background Although intracoronary ultrasound (ICUS) has been validated for the early detection of transplant coronary artery disease (TxCAD), the prognostic importance of findings detected by this new ...

In this review, we provide a contemporary overview of the pre‐ and perioperative cardiovascular evaluation of patients with ESRD who are considered suitable candidates for renal transplantation. In ...

Objective To explore the correlation between the quantitative analysis curve of renal contrast-enhanced ultrasound and the anatomical location of renal cortical microcirculation associated with acute ...

In distinguishing abnormalities, especially kidney diseases, it is important to characterize the ultrasound images more objectively. This study used The Statistical Moment Descriptor (SMD) with the ...

UdeM medical professors Marie-Josée Hébert and Héloïse Cardinal, holders of the Shire Chair in Nephrology, Renal Transplantation and Regeneration, co-authored the study with Hébert's research ...

Abstract: Prevention and proper treatment of renal transplant rejection and acute tubular necrosis in kidney are the key to improving the long-term kidney transplant survival rate. Hence, it is ...

1 Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy 2 Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplant Unit, “SS. Annunziata” Hospital, Cosenza, Italy The ...

Doctors performed the first heart, liver, and kidney triple organ transplant in New York State. It's an extremely rare procedure with only 58 ever being done in the country. Mack Godbee is living ...

CBS 17 first introduced you to a young teenager named Albert Jeffries, better known as Alj, nearly 10 years ago when his life depended on a heart transplant. Now, a decade later, a kidney donation has ...