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2. National Kidney Registry - Wikipedia

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   GPS tracking - In 2010, the NKR implemented the first GPS tracking systems used for shipping organs in the United States. [14] After several near misses including a case where a kidney was off-loaded from an "overweight" midnight red-eye flight out of LAX (Los Angeles International Airport), the NKR made GPS tracking mandatory for all kidney ...

3. Sisters used Craigslist to find a kidney donor for their dad ...

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   She donated her kidney to their father on Dec. 12, 2008, and the transplant was a success. Dawn, Daniel's kidney donor from California, was a perfect match. (Courtesy of Jennifer Flood) (yahoo)

4. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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   Later, the kidney became infected by a virus, and in June 2005 he underwent a second operation to have the new kidney removed. On August 17, he announced that his body was free of the viral infection and that he was ready to find a new transplant. He then received a second kidney transplant, which was donated by his mother. 2005 [34] [35 ...

5. Kidney dish - Wikipedia

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   Kidney dishes made from stainless steel, cardboard and enamelled iron Stainless-steel kidney dish Stack of disposable pulp kidney dishes, stored in a drawer. A kidney dish (British English) or emesis basin (American English) is a shallow basin with a kidney-shaped base and sloping walls used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste.

6. The Fight to Free Kidney Dialysis Patients From Their Bulky ...

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   The first symptoms of kidney failure are silent. Failing kidneys can’t remove extra fluid from the body, nor can they filter molecules like urea, which can be toxic in high dosages, from the blood.

7. Kidney paired donation - Wikipedia

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   Kidney paired donation (KPD), or paired exchange, is an approach to living donor kidney transplantation where patients with incompatible donors swap kidneys to receive a compatible kidney. KPD is used in situations where a potential donor is incompatible.

8. American Kidney Fund - Wikipedia

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   The American Kidney Fund's grant programs help low-income dialysis patients to access health care, including dialysis and transplantation. AKF provides grants that help with health insurance premiums and other treatment necessities not covered by health insurance, such as transportation to dialysis, nutritional products and emergency assistance.

9. Nephrology - Wikipedia

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   Nephrology is a specialty for both adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (renal physiology) and kidney disease (renal pathophysiology), the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal replacement therapy (dialysis and kidney transplantation).