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The most common side effects include hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels) when used in combination with insulin or a sulphonylurea and vulvovaginal candidiasis (thrush, a fungal infection of the female genital area caused by Candida). [3]
Cycles only include donors who are paired with a patient so that the donor donates a kidney only if their patient receives a kidney in the swap. Chains are initiated by non-directed donors. These donors, also known as unpaired or altruistic donors, donate a kidney without any expectation of a reciprocal kidney donation to any specific patient.
In addition, as bone marrow transplantation is frequently used to treat cancer, mainly leukemias, donor T-cells have proven to have a valuable graft-versus-tumor effect. [24] A great deal of current research on allogeneic bone marrow transplantation involves attempts to separate the undesirable graft-vs-host disease aspects of T-cell physiology ...
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More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want to donate their kidney to a friend or family member cannot because of blood type or antibody incompatibility. [3] Historically, these donors would be turned away and the patient would lose the opportunity to receive a life-saving kidney transplant .
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Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.