CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A heart and kidney transplant recipient is now sharing her journey with students at Chicopee High School. Lauren Meizo was given a second chance at life thanks to two ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - One Wilmington woman is looking for a kidney transplant as she battles stage 5 kidney disease. Haley Halford was diagnosed in 2021 after going to the doctor for chronic ...

At this advanced stage, patients either receive a kidney transplant or remain on dialysis — an expensive and often debilitating treatment — for the rest of their lives. Of the more than 90,000 ...

At univariable analysis, both anti-C1q antibodies and non-use of hydroxychloroquine predicted renal flares at baseline and 6 and 12 months. Proteinuria (24/h proteinuria and proteinuria 0.5 g/day or ...

That delayed diagnosis often means dialysis or transplant is the only option for survival. “I was on a business trip in Australia when I crashed into dialysis,” said Pesh Patel, a kidney ...

The life-saving transplant was performed at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), where Mamoun Bashir Elnefeidi Ahmed, battling kidney failure, had a robotic transplant, while Noon underwent the ...

In 2020, he was diagnosed with kidney failure and was added to the transplant list at the Medical University of South Carolina. He said last year he was diagnosed with melanoma, and while he’s ...

If he doesn’t get a transplant within a year, Kirby said he’ll have to start dialysis since he’s now in Stage 4, which puts him at high risk of having kidney failure, according to the ...

An attorney for the woman accused of sparking the massive Carolina Forest wildfire says they want a jury trial. The Marlboro County deputies are looking for a man who they said fired shots into a ...

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

“Post-transplant medications keep the body from rejecting the donor heart, but they also can have deleterious health effects, including infections, impaired kidney function, and an increased risk for ...