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Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors lower blood sugar levels and have additional beneficial effects on kidney and heart health for individuals with and without diabetes, but little is known about the safety and efficacy of these medications in kidney transplant recipients. Research that examined this will be presented. For the study, investigators analyzed the electronic medical records of 3,450 adult kidney transplant recipients treated with SGLT2 inhibitors who were matched to 3,450 similar patients who did not receive SGLT2 inhibitors, using a statistical technique called propensity matching adjusted for demographic data, baseline heart disease and blood test. Kidney transplant patients treated...

A team of infectious disease researchers has found via clinical trial that fecal transplants after kidney transplantation reduce the susceptibility of patients to infections by multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs). In their study, the group tested the impact of fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) on kidney transplant patients receiving care at Emory Transplant Center, in Atlanta. Prior research has shown that people who receive kidney transplantation are at risk of developing an infection from MDROs. This is because patients are given antibiotics to prevent general infections, killing all non-drug-resistant organisms. The absence of competing organisms allows MDROs to flourish, putting these patients at...

35-year-old Garnet Harper died after hospitals refused to perform a life-saving kidney transplant on him because he did not take the experimental COVID-19 shots. Canadian health officials asked an Ontario woman to donate organs of her husband who died after being denied an organ transplant because he did not receive the COVID-19 shots. In May, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), the Ontario organ donation agency, called Meghan Harper to harvest her husband Garnet’s organs as he lay dying because the hospital refused to provide organ transplants to unvaccinated Canadians. “They call you while you’re sitting next to your dying...

A major clinical trial has found a simple change to world practice for kidney transplants could deliver real benefits for recipients and reduce their need for dialysis by 25%. The BEST-Fluids trial was conducted by the Australasian Kidney Trials Network (AKTN). Professor David Johnson said the trial assessed the use of an intravenous fluid containing sodium, potassium, magnesium and chloride in proportions similar to human blood—instead of the usual practice of using normal saline (sodium chloride and water). "Of those study participants who received intravenous Plasma-Lyte 148, 30% needed dialysis after their transplants, compared to 40% for those given normal...

Mayo Clinic has declined to consider a kidney transplant for an unvaccinated woman with stage-four kidney disease, she told Alpha News. That woman, Amy Broten, received a letter Nov. 1 informing her that her kidney transplant evaluation was denied. “You have medical issues that need to be stabilized and/or improved prior to evaluation. The medical issues include: patient not willing to comply with the transplant team immunization requirements and recommendations,” the letter says.

Conventional wisdom holds that low protein intake is essential for kidney disease patients. However, scientists demonstrated that it might not always be the case with their recent study on the relationship between protein intake and skeletal muscle mass in kidney transplant recipients. Chronic kidney disease patients are known to have induced sarcopenia due to chronic inflammation, hypercatabolism, decreased nutrient intake, and decreased physical activity associated with impaired kidney function. Recovery of renal function due to successful kidney transplantation is able to correct or improve many of those physiological and metabolic abnormalities. As a result, kidney transplant recipients increase skeletal muscle...

Adding immunotherapy to standard anti-rejection medication could change the lives of thousands of kidney transplant patients with incurable cancer, as research shows it can reduce this risk of organ rejection and eliminate cancer in a quarter of patients. The world-first study showed that a dual combination of transplant anti-rejection drugs and immune checkpoint inhibitors not only reduced organ rejection rates to 12% (from 40–50%) but also eradicated cancer cells in 25% of patients. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that block proteins called checkpoints. These checkpoints help keep immune responses from being too strong but can also keep T-cells from killing...

Shamgar Connors, a Virginia resident, has Stage 5 kidney failure and has been on the transplant waiting list at the University of Virginia's Transplant Center for two years. However, he's been told he's no longer eligible for a transplant because he hasn't been vaccinated. Although the Center's rule does not comport with developing science, it certainly reflects the dominant attitude in America's medical centers.There are a lot of facts that need to be woven together to fully understand what's happening to Shamgar. I'll start with more general facts and then work my way to specific ones:One: For someone with Stage...

A second woman in less than a month has been denied the opportunity to have a life-saving organ transplant simply because she won't get vaccinated against COVID. Leilani Lutali, 56, from Colorado has been denied the chance to have a kidney transplant after the hospital that would have been performing the operation refused to treat her because she hadn't had the coronavirus vaccine. Lutali who has stage 5 kidney disease, desperately needs transplant to save her life but in September, Colorado health system UC Health took her off its organ donation list despite the fact she already had a donor...

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CINCINNATI—A new study shows that vitamin D deficiency could be linked to the development and severity of certain autoimmune lung diseases. These findings are being reported in the Jan. 4 edition of the journal Chest. Brent Kinder, MD, UC Health pulmonologist, director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Center at the University of Cincinnati and lead investigator on the study, says vitamin D deficiencies have been found to affect the development of other autoimmune diseases, like lupus and type 1 diabetes. "We wanted to see if lack of sufficient vitamin D would also be seen in patients who are diagnosed with...

JOHN, whose kidneys were failing, thought his life would change when a donor stepped forward. It did change - but in more ways than John (not his real name)expected. He discovered that the donor was his wife's secret lover. He was shattered. Then, another shock: He learnt he wasn't the biological father of his young child. The same man who gave him a new lease on life was also the biological father of his kid. Still he decided to save the marriage. Then, the final straw: A private investigator told him his wife had broken her promise to keep away...

DEAR FREEPERS, OUR BELOVED SISTER MARYSECRETARY HAS HAD TO RETURN TO THE HOSPITAL WITH VARIOUS KIDNEY RELATED LEVELS BEING GREATLY OUT OF WHACK. She needs a lot of prayer currently that her new kidney balances out and functions properly . . . with no negative side effects. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR PRAYERS. She's dearly beloved and a real FREEPER TROOPER.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - The state of Pennsylvania cannot force a seriously ill prison inmate to undergo a blood transfusion , even if it could save his life, a Commonwealth Court judge said in a decision released Wednesday. Senior Judge Keith B. Quigley said inmate Anthony Lindsey's wishes must be respected under the First Amendment, whether they are based on religion or something else. Lindsey, 37, an inmate at the Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset, refuses to allow a transfusion because it violates his religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness. A doctor at the prison said in court papers that...

Organs for Sale? by: Brittany Fortier, September 11, 2009 For those in need of a kidney transplant, it can be a difficult journey to find a willing donor. Circumstances have become so desperate for those waiting for a posthumous kidney that they sometimes resort to advertising their need on billboards and websites. Even worse, some may turn to the black market. On August 24, 2009, the American Enterprise Institute discussed these issues with Dr. Sally Satel, a resident scholar at AEI and beneficiary of a kidney transplant. Satel argued that the best way to procure more organ donations is to...

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum claimed to be in the business of buying and selling real estate, but he really bought and sold human kidneys for transplant, according to a federal complaint filed Thursday. The 58-year-old Brooklyn man was accused of trafficking in human organs, after a sting by an undercover FBI agent who agreed to pay $160,000 for a kidney from a live Israeli donor for her sick New Jersey "uncle." Investigators said Rosenbaum bragged about doing "quite a lot" of transplants over the last 10 years. "I am what you call a matchmaker," the complaint said the man, also known...

Ailing Natalie Cole now has a new kidney. The 59-year-old singer underwent successful kidney transplant surgery "and is resting comfortably," publicist Maureen O'Connor said Wednesday. Cole will postpone her summer tour, which was set to begin June 5 and run through November, as she recovers. Cole had been receiving dialysis three times a week since September. She still continued to perform, even overseas, in support of her latest album, the Grammy-winning "Still Unforgettable," The kidney dialysis is unrelated to Cole's struggle with hepatitis C, a liver disease spread through contact with infected blood. She announced her hepatitis diagnosis last year...

D.C. Council member Marion Barry's kidney transplant surgery was successfully completed late last night, officials at Howard University Hospital said. Barry "is doing well," the transplant specialist who led the operation said through a hospital spokesman. "Everything went well." Officials said that a healthy kidney, supplied by a 47 -year-old female donor, had been transplanted and that it appeared to be functioning fine. Barry was to spend the night in the intensive care unit; tests to assess the functioning of the donated kidney were to be performed this morning, said Clive O. Callender, founder and director of the hospital's transplant...

In a country where 300 million people live on less than a dollar a day, Amit Kumar—nicknamed “Dr. Horror” by the Indian media after his arrest last winter for heading an illicit global kidney-transplant ring—had little trouble finding homegrown organ donors. One favorite hunting ground was a strip of restaurants, shops, and hovels near an Islamic shrine, or dargah, in Mahim, a predominantly Muslim precinct of Mumbai. Devotees of the dargah, which attracts people of all faiths, donate money to restaurants to help feed the beggars who cluster there. Last June, walking past one such restaurant whose kitchen extends to...

Ahmedabad, March 3: THE illusive grafting of stem cells for kidney transplantation to ensure complete withdrawal of drugs for patients who have undergone this critical transplantation has finally been reached by a team led by Dr HL Trivedi at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC). The team infused new kind of stem cells called “Mesenchymal Stem Cells” on one Hetal Mewada who underwent transplantation at the institute on February 9 last. “These cells are infused to create tolerance in the recipient’s body for the donor’s organ,” said Dr Trivedi, Director of IKDRC. Transplanters across the globe have...