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Kidney Transplants
Kidney transplantation involves replacing a patient's failed kidney with a healthy kidney from a donor.
Follow the links below to find out more about kidney transplantation.
Reviewed May 2011
19 Resources Found
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| Title: | Live Kidney Donation |
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| Publisher: | Kidney Health Australia |
| Description: | Information about the live donation process |
| Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Title: | Kidney and urinary fast facts |
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| Publisher: | Kidney Health Australia |
| Description: | Latest facts and statistics regarding chronic kidney and urinary tract disease and treatment in Australia |
| Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Title: | Projections of the incidence of treated end-stage kidney disease in Australia, 2010-2020 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This report presents projections of the incidence of end-stage kidney disease treated with dialysis or kidney transplantation (treated ESKD) for the period 2010 to 2020. |
| Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Title: | Deciding about live donation |
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| Publisher: | Kidney Health Australia |
| Description: | Facts to help you decide if you will become a live kidney donor |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Kidney failure |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Kidney disease can sometimes lead to kidney failure. If kidney disease is found early, medications and lifestyle changes can increase the life of your kidneys. However, if the kidneys fail completely, they don't often recover. People with kidney failure need dialysis or a transplant to stay alive. |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Keyhole (laparoscopic) versus traditional (open) surgery for people donating a kidney |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Keyhole surgery, which involves a surgeon making several smaller cuts to obtain a healthy kidney for transplanting, was compared with the traditional technique of making a single larger cut (open surgery). Six studies randomising 596 healthy kidney dono... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Interleukin 2 receptor antagonists (IL2Ra) reduce the risk of acute rejection episodes at six and twelve months after kidney transplantation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acute rejection is a major problem in the early period following kidney transplantation. Immunosuppressive drugs are used to prevent this. IL2Ra, a newer antibody therapy, can be added to a patient's existing immunosuppression to further reduce the risk... |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Renal transplantation - kidney transplant |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Information on renal (kidney) transplantation, such as criteria for receiving a kidney transplant, what happens before, during and after a transplant procedure and common complications associated with a kidney transplant. |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Health care expenditure on chronic kidney disease in Australia 2004-05 |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | Chronic kidney disease is a common and serious problem in Australia. Those with the most severe form, end-stage kidney disease, usually require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. |
| Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Title: | Blood pressure medication for kidney transplant recipients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In some patient groups, different blood pressure lowering drugs have differing relative beneficial and harmful effects in addition to their blood pressure lowering action. We investigated whether different classes of drugs might have different relative ... |
| Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Title: | HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) for kidney transplant recipients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Kidney transplant recipients are at high risk of heart disease and dyslipidaemia further increases this risk. Statins have been shown to decrease cholesterol levels, cardiovascular events and mortality in the general population. The aim of this review w... |
| Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Title: | Calcium channel blockers can reduce the death of tubular cells in the kidney after a transplant operation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is the sudden death of tubular cells in the kidney. ATN can happen after a kidney transplant if the kidney does not receive enough oxygen. Calcium channel blockers stop calcium ions flowing into the muscle cells of the heart... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Kidney failure treatment options: making the right choice |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW) |
| Description: | This booklet helps you to understand how each treatment works and to decide which treatment is most appropriate for you. |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Acute renal transplant dysfunction |
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| Publisher: | Department of Health Western Australia |
| Description: | Diagnostic imaging algorithm for patients with acute renal transplant dysfunction following surgery. |
| Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Title: | Kidney failure treatment options : making the right choice |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service |
| Description: | A guide to treatment options for kidney failure, including dialysis and kidney transplantation. |
| Date: | Mar 2007 |
| Title: | Steroid avoidance or withdrawal for kidney transplant recipients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | More than 20,000 kidney transplant procedures are performed world-wide each year and transplantation is the treatment of choice for people with end-stage kidney disease. However, despite short-term results continuing to improve, long term results have o... |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Fish oil for kidney transplant recipients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review set out to assess any benefit or harm in using fish oil to reduce the risk of kidney damage and heart disease in people who have had a kidney transplant and are receiving standard drugs to prevent rejection. Information from 16 studies was u... |
| Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Title: | Target of rapamycin inhibitors (TOR-I; sirolimus and everolimus) for primary immunosuppression in kidney transplant recipients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Strategies to increase donor organ availability and to prolong the transplanted kidney's survival have become priorities in kidney transplantation. ... |
| Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Title: | Kidney transplantation |
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| Publisher: | Kidney Health Australia |
| Description: | Information on kidney transplantation - a treatment option |
| Date: | Oct 2005 |
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