In this video, an expert discusses study results presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session that assessed sex-based differences observed in end-stage kidney disease after heart ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

The results suggest that kidney pumping may be an effective strategy to mitigate the risk of graft failure. Kidney pumping of both mate kidneys with a cold ischemia time greater than 12 hours “should ...

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

Kidney transplant recipients with longer exposure to daily average temperatures of at least 86°F were more likely to ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...