If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don’t We Allow Kidney Donors to be Paid for Saving Lives? [PDF]
, 2018 We contrast the compensation ban on organ donation with the legal treatment of football, boxing, and other violent sports where both acute and chronic injuries to participants are common. Our claim is that there is a stronger case for compensating kidney
Cook, Philip J., Krawiec, Kimberly D.
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Renal Replacement TherapyBackground Cinacalcet hydrochloride (cinacalcet), an oral calcimimetics for secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT), has been widely used worldwide. In contrast, evocalcet, an improved derivative of cinacalcet, was approved only in Japan in 2018 and has not
Nobuo Nagano +9 more
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Fully-automatic segmentation of kidneys in clinical ultrasound images using a boundary distance regression network [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this study, we developed a novel boundary distance regression deep neural network to segment the kidneys, informed by the fact ...
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Time, timing, talking and training : findings from an exploratory action research study to improve quality of end of life care for minority ethnic kidney patients [PDF]
, 2017 Background. With an ageing and increasingly diverse population at risk from rising levels of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including kidney complications, there is a need to provide quality care at all stages in the care pathway including
Brown, Edwina +9 more
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Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease: an update 2022.
Kidney international. Supplement, 2022 C. Kovesdy
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A dynamic graph-cuts method with integrated multiple feature maps for segmenting kidneys in ultrasound images [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Purpose: To improve kidney segmentation in clinical ultrasound (US) images, we develop a new graph cuts based method to segment kidney US images by integrating original image intensity information and texture feature maps extracted using Gabor filters.
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Kidney transplantation. Modern trends in kidney transplantation. [PDF]
, 1977 Trends in renal transplantation stem from recognition of the virtues and drawbacks of this kind of treatment and from a better appreciation of the interrelationship between transplantation and ...
Putnam, CW, Starzl, TE, Weil, R
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Renal function assessment in adults with recurrent calcium kidney stone disease [PDF]
, 2012 The prevalence of nephrolihiasis and chronic kidney disease has risen over the past three decades, we sought to determine if person with a history of kidney stones have lower renal function relative to non stone formers.
Milladipour, Amir Hossein +1 more
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Automatic kidney segmentation in ultrasound images using subsequent boundary distance regression and pixelwise classification networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound (US) images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this study, we propose subsequent boundary distance regression and pixel classification networks to segment the kidneys ...
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, 2010 Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for many individuals with end stage renal disease (ESRD), as transplantation is reported to offer a greater quality of life than renal dialysis.
Addington-Hall, Julia +4 more
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