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  2. Woman loses 100 lbs, learns her weight loss qualifies her to ...

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    After losing 100 pounds with WeightWatchers, walking, and eating more vegetables, woman is able to be a kidney donor for her husband in kidney failure. Woman loses 100 lbs, learns her weight loss ...

  3. Kidney transplantation - Wikipedia

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    The transplant surgery takes about three hours. [65] The donor kidney will be placed in the lower abdomen and its blood vessels connected to arteries and veins in the recipient's body. When this is complete, blood will be allowed to flow through the kidney again. The final step is connecting the ureter from the donor kidney to the bladder.

  4. “They’re Not Dead Until They’re Warm”: 30 ... - AOL

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    When you get a kidney transplant they don’t take out your original kidneys, so you have 3 kidneys after a transplant. Also, they transplant the new kidney into your abdomen and it sits on top of ...

  5. Steven Gundry - Wikipedia

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    Steven R. Gundry (born July 11, 1950) is an American physician, low-carbohydrate diet author and former cardiothoracic surgeon. [1] [2] Gundry is the author of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain, which promotes the controversial and pseudoscientific lectin-free diet. [3]

  6. Donating a kidney is even safer now than thought, US ... - AOL

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    The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donation and found that by 2022, fewer than 1 of every 10,000 donors died within three months of the surgery. Transplant centers have been using older ...

  7. Nutcracker syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Renal autotransplantation: transfer of the left kidney from its original location into the body to another location to prevent venous compression. [ 6 ] Nephrectomy: in cases involving failed surgical treatments or individuals who do not wish to undergo open surgeries, removing the kidney via laparoscopy for altruistic donation is an option.

  8. Renal replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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    It is used when the kidneys are not working well, which is called kidney failure and includes acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease. Renal replacement therapy includes dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis), hemofiltration, and hemodiafiltration, which are various ways of filtration of blood with or without machines.

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