Compared with CABG, PCI is associated with decreased perioperative complication risks in patients with NSTE-ACS who are renal transplant recipients.

She hopes the return of the kidney transplant program at Covenant Medical Center will reduce waiting times and travel burdens ...

Covenant Health announced Monday the hospital is proud to once again bring critically necessary services back to West Texas ...

Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

A daughter dedicated to community health care and her active father share their experience with living kidney donation, hoping to dispel myths in the community and encouraging more to share the gift ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

About 24% of families who preferred a language other than English received a kidney from a living donor for their child ...

Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...

Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.

and unknown cause), pre-transplant dialysis modality (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, mixed dialysis, and no dialysis), duration of pre-transplant dialysis, clinical comorbidities (hypertension, ...

Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) is being used with increasing frequency in patients with end-stage renal disease. [1] One of the major complications of this treatment is peritonitis.

When the kidneys lose their ability to filter waste and excess fluids from the blood, patients must choose between dialysis or a kidney transplant to sustain their health. Each option comes with its ...