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Blood Pressure and Living Kidney Donors: A Clinical Perspective
Transplantation Direct, 2019 Elevated blood pressure (BP), or “hypertension,” has been one of the main exclusion criteria for living kidney donation, as it is a risk factor for renal and cardiovascular disease. The effect of elevated BP in living kidney donors is not well studied or
Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD +8 more
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Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag +5 more
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Preoperative Comorbidities and Outcomes of Medically Complex Living Kidney Donors
Kidney International Reports, 2020 Introduction: Recent reports have described an increased risk of renal disease in living kidney donors compared with the general population. However, these reports do not detail the outcomes of medically complex living donors (MCLDs) with preoperative ...
Takahisa Hiramitsu +9 more
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Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy
Urologic Clinics of North America, 1999 Live donor renal transplantation has many advantages including greater graft and patient survival, shorter waiting periods, improved human leukocyte antigen matching, and less cold ischemia. Until recently, disincentives from the operation, such as prolonged hospitalization, postoperative pain, and significant convalescence, have deterred live donor ...
M D, Fabrizio +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker +7 more
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Post-Operative Complications in Living Liver Donors: A Single-Center Experience in China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The gap between the growing demand for available organs and the cadaveric organs facilitates the adoption of living donor liver transplantation. We retrospectively identified and evaluated the post-operative complications as per the modified Clavien ...
Zhongquan Sun +10 more
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Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Chirurgia, 2017 In 50 years after the first liver transplantation, the medical world has witnessed the liver transplantation to become one of the widely recognized and leading branches of surgery. In this period, liver transplantation combined with surgical technique, patient selection, advancements in anesthesia and postoperative care and increased experience has ...
Birkan, Bozkurt +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bone tumours present significant challenges for affected patients, as multimodal therapy often leads to prolonged physical limitations. This is particularly critical during childhood and adolescence, as it can negatively impact physiological development and psychosocial resilience.
Jennifer Queisser +5 more
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Adaptive Personality Traits and Psychosocial Correlates among Living Kidney Donors
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2017 Since living kidney donors have repeatedly been shown to be mentally more healthy compared to the general population, they might also exhibit more adaptive personality characteristics.
Iris Pollmann +8 more
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Spending Out: Learning Lessons from Time-Limited Grant-making [PDF]
, 2010 This short paper is one of a series of resources on effective practice for trusts and foundations, and draws particularly on the experiences of foundations with a limited life span.
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