Extraperitoneal placement of the renal graft into iliac fossa. A, The incision is depicted ... Redrawn from: Whelchel JD. Renal transplantation, Vol. 14. In: Grabar GB (ed.). Anesthesia for ...

We begin a four-part series called "Gift of Life." It focuses on the Lehigh Valley Health Network's kidney transplant program. In this first report, we meet Daniel Gonzalez, a man who urgently ...

New research finds that early preemptive kidney transplants do not reduce the risk of death, according to a Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study published in Transplantation Proceedings.

Between January 2006 and May 2008, 11 ESRD patients (9 males, 2 females) with severe iliac calcification ... Two patients had received a previous kidney transplant, but it had failed.

Transplant immunology is the study of the immune response that occurs when an organ or tissue is moved (grafted) from one individual to another. A major problem following transplantation is that ...

Without adequate preventive methods, an avulsion fracture may result. The case is here reported of an apophyseal avulsion fracture of the anterior superior iliac spine in an adolescent caused by ...

New research has applied rigorous statistical analyses to genetic variations identified in patients with kidney disease to find drivers of (patho)physiological differences in urine and plasma ...