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| NEWS and LATEST ARTICLES |
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| Organ Transplant Waiting List Reaches High in U.S. - press release from Allsup - April 11, 2008 | |
| Hopkins surgeons transplant 6 kidneys - article from The Washington Times - April 9, 2008 | |
| Cancer in patients on dialysis and after renal transplantation - full text editorial comment from Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - April 8, 2008 | |
| Rare kidney swap involving 8 patients performed - article from The Chicago Sun-Times - April 8, 2008 | |
| TB spread from donor to recipient needs fast action - article from Reuters Health - April 3, 2008 | |
| Doctors, Ethicists to Grapple With Organ Donation - article from Red Orbit - April 3, 2008 | |
| Kidney donor posts journey online - article from USA Today and AP - April 2, 2008 | |
| The Home Is Where the Donor Might Be - full-text article from the American Journal of Kidney Diseases - April 2008 | |
| From Helsinki to Istanbul: What can the transplant community learn from experience in clinical research? - full-text editorial from Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - April 2008 | |
| Philippines suspends kidney transplants to foreigners - article from The Straits Times (Singapore) - March 31, 2008 | |
| Approaches for transplanting the sensitized patient: biology versus pharmacology - full-text editorial from Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation - March 25, 2008 | |
| Search For A Kidney Stem Cell - article from eMaxHealth - March 25, 2008 | |
| Consent for Organ Donation — Balancing Conflicting Ethical Obligations - full-text perspective piece from The New England Journal of Medicine - March 20, 2008 | |
| Organ Sales and Moral Travails: Lessons from the Living Kidney Vendor Program in Iran - article from the Cato Institute - March 20, 2008 | |
| Differences in tolerance for health risk to the living donor among potential donors, recipients, and transplant professionals - abstract from Kidney International - March 19, 2008 | |
| Explore HIV positive kidney transplants: medics - article from The Citizen (South Africa) - March 17, 2008 | |
| An organization, Life Sharers, raises ethical questions about organ donation - article from Cleveland.com - March 17, 2008 | |
| The Overlapping Risk Profile Between Dialysis Patients Listed and Not Listed for Renal Transplantation - full-text article from the American Journal of Transplantation - January 2008 | |
| Latest transplant news from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) | |
| Kidney Transplant news stories from Yahoo! News - Continually Updated! |
| ANTI-REJECTION DRUG INFORMATION |
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| Cyclosporine ("Sandimmune" or "Neoral") - Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for cyclosporine and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| Tacrolimus ("Prograf" or FK506) - Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for tacrolimus and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| Sirolimus ("Rapamune®") - Consumer Info from the FDA. Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for sirolimus and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| Azathioprine ("Imuran") - Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for azathioprine and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| Daclizumab ("Zenapax®") - Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for daclizumab and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| Corticosteroids ("Prednisone" and many others) - Drug Info from The MedMaster™ Patient Drug Information database. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for corticosteroids and kidney transplant Continually Updated! Search results for prednisone Continually Updated! | |
| Mycophenolate ("CellCept") - Drug Info from The Drug Monitor. National Library of Medicine PubMED search results for mycophenolate and kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| WEB RESOURCES |
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| Latest Scientific Journal Articles on Kidney Transplantation - list compiled by RenalWEB's Journal Watch | |
| Decision: Donation - a school program that gives the gift of life | |
| DonateYourKidneys.Org web site | |
| Guidelines for Preventing Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Through Transplantation of Human Tissue and Organs from the CDC - May 20, 1994 | |
| Impact on Living Kidney Donors: Quality of Life, Self-Image and Family Dynamics (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader) from the American Nephrology Nurses' Association (ANNA) | |
| The Jewish Kidney & Transplant Support Center - Advice and support for kidney transplant and dialysis patients |
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| Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Program from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions | |
| Kidney Transplant web sites from Yahoo! | |
| Latest Issue of Kidney Transplant Today an electronic newsletter produced and distributed by the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) | |
| Kidtrans - list for parents of children who have had a transplant or are in need of one |
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| Medical Complications of Kidney Transplantation (Hardcover) by Claudio Ponticelli (Editor) - January 2008 | |
| National Service Framework for Renal Services: Part One - Dialysis and transplantation - Department of Health web site | |
| National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF) web site | |
| New Book by Transplant RN, David Liebowitz+ - from the Publish America web site - April 2005 | |
| Organ and Tissue Donors and Transplant Recipients from the NKF web site. Also, transAction! - A council where transplant recipients of all organs come together. | |
| Organ Transplantation at the National Institutes of Health from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) web site | |
| Pediatric Transplantation web site | |
| Pregnancy After Transplant from the Transplant Living web site | |
| Presumed Consent Foundation web site | |
| Q&A on Living Donation from the NKF web site | |
| Questions About Kidney Transplantation from TransWeb.org web site | |
| Roche Transplantation web site |
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| The Renal Transplant Option from the ESRD Network 5 web site | |
| Top 10 Myths About Donation & Transplantation from TransWeb.org web site | |
| TransplantLiving - the patient's connection to the transplant community from UNOS | |
| 2006 Annual Report - The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) web site. The site provides the most current U.S. donation and transplantation data available on the Internet. | |
| 2005 Annual Report from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) | |
| United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) weekly updated Waiting Lists for transplants. | |
| Update: Investigations of West Nile Virus Infections in Recipients of Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion - from MMWR - September 20, 2002 | |
| U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Transplantation (DOT) web site | |
| USTransplant.org web site - The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) web site. Center and OPO Specific Reports | |
| Who is Eligible for Medicare? from the The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare Information |
| ESSENTIALS AND CLASSICS |
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| Tramplantation Fact Sheet (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader.) from the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association | |
| Chronic Kidney Disease: What Every Nurse Should Know - Module 6: Chronic Kidney Disease - The Post Transplant Patient - from the American Nephrology Nurses Association web site | |
| Care of the kidney transplant recipient from Postgraduate Medicine - September 2002 | |
| Symptom Occurrence, Symptom Distress, and Quality Of Life in Renal Transplant Recipients - CE article from the Nephrology Nursing Journal | |
| Treatment Methods for Kidney Failure: Kidney Transplantation from the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) | |
| End-Stage Renal Disease: Choosing a Treatment That's Right for You: Transplantation from the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) | |
| Here is an informative website for those considering kidney transplantation, "A Patient's Guide to Kidney Transplant Surgery" from the University of Southern California Kidney Transplant Program. | |
| HLA Matching from the University of Michigan Medical Center. |
| PUBMED SEARCHES |
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| kidney transplant Continually Updated! | |
| organ donor and kidney Continually Updated! | |
| renal transplant and HLA matching Continually Updated! | |
| kidney transplant and complications Continually Updated! | |
| kidney transplant and rejection Continually Updated! |
| LAPAROSCOPIC NEPHRECTOMY |
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| Laparoscopic Living Donor Nephrectomy For Kidney Transplantation - article from the University of Minnesota that appeared in Dialysis & Transplantation 1999; 28(6): 318-331 | |
| View a 10-minute movie of an actual laparoscopic left donor nephrectomy from the University of Southern California Kidney Transplant Program. (need Real Video - download player ) | |
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Here is a listing of articles on the laparoscopic nephrectomy procedure from the latest scientific journals (PubMed search). |
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| NON-DIRECTED DONATION AND "SWAPS" |
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| STATISTICS |
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| U.S. Facts About Kidney Transplantation from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) web site | |
| 2006 OPTN/SRTR Annual Report from the USTransplant.org web site | |
| Center and OPO Specific Reports from the USTransplant.org web site | |
| USRDS Report: Transplantation; Transplantation Process; Transplantation Outcomes (pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat reader) | |
| Organ Donation and Transplantation Trends in the United States - from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients web site |
| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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| Listing of North American Transplant Coordinators Organization (NATCO) Meetings | |
| May 31 - June 4, American Transplant Congress (ATC) 2008: 8th Annual Joint Meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons/American Society of Transplantation (ASTS/AST), Toronto, Canada - congress page, (856) 439-9986, fax (856) 439-9982, e-mail | |
| July 11-16, 2008 - U.S. Transplant Games, Pittsburgh, PA - games page, National Kidney Foundation (NKF) web site, (800) 622-9010, fax (212) 899-2210 | |
| August 10-14, 2008 - 22nd International Congress of The Transplantation Society, Sydney, Australia - congress page, +61 3 9417 0888, fax +61 3 9417 0899, e-mail | |
| August 22-30, 2008 - 17th World Transplant Games, Gold Coast, Australia - games page, +61 2 9922 5400, fax +61 2 9954 6412, e-mail | |
| September 6-9, 2008 - 37th Annual EDTNA/ERCA International Conference, Prague Congress Centre (PCC), Prague, Czech Republic - conference page, EDTNA/ERCA web site+, +420 261 174 305, fax +420 261 174 307, e-mail | |
| TRANSPLANT CENTERS |
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| US Transplant Centers - from the OPTN web site | |
| Transplant centers with web sites from the TransWeb web site | |
| Transplant Statistics: Center-Specific Reports from the USTranplant.org web site |
| XENOTRANSPLANTATION, BIOTECH, AND STEM CELL RESEARCH |
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| FDA Guidance for Industry on Xenotransplantation from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) web site | |
| These two web sites provide opposing viewpoints on xenotransplantation. Here is the the International Xenotransplantation Association. Here is the web site of the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation, a group that opposes xenotransplantation. | |
| Xenotransplantation: For and Against - full text ethics article from Philosophy Now - May/June 2006 | |
| U.S. Public Health Service Guideline on Infectious Disease Issues in Xenotransplantation from the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) - August 24, 2001 | |
| Stem Cells: A Primer - from the National Institutes of Health, September 2002 | |
| Stem Cell Research - Full coverage page from Yahoo | |
| Bioartificial kidney under development at the University of Michigan by Dr. David Humes. Here is the news summary from RenalWEB | |
| Beyond Transplants: Growing Organs in the Lab from Popular Mechanics |
| DISCUSSION FORUM |
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| General Nursing Discussion Forum - RenalWEB Discussion Forum |
| INPUT / SUGGESTIONS |
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