Kidney Transplant

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March 11, 2019
Kidney TransplantLeadership

Congratulations Dr. Denise Alveranga!

TAMPA, Fla., March 1, 2019 – Florida Kidney Physicians today announced that a member of their team of doctors, Dr. Denise Alveranga, has been elected by the national organ donation and transplantation community to the Board of Directors at the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). With just sixteen other members elected throughout the nation, […]
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February 13, 2019
Chronic Kidney DiseaseHealthy KidneysKidney DoctorKidney TransplantKidney Care

Save lives! Register to be an organ donor today

By Junaid Ahmed, MD Kidney transplantation, whether using organs from deceased or living donors, has been well established as the optimal management for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Unfortunately, it is not as widely available as it should be. The OPTN recorded 5,811 living kidney donor transplants, 14,038 deceased donor kidney transplants and 789 kidney/pancreas […]
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June 9, 2018
Kidney Transplant

A Patient’s Testimonial

Meet Kenneth. Ken was moving through his life like most of us. In some cases, even better. He developed the early productive belief on to find out love what you do and figure out someone to pay you to do it.” He was a technician in the theater business for about 25 years, currently at […]
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June 10, 2017
Kidney Transplant

New score seeks to expand pool of kidneys available for transplant

With over 120,000 patients in the United States waiting for a kidney transplant, scientists and physicians are constantly looking to expand the pool of available organs through increasing donation and optimizing allocation. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University analyzed data from thousands of transplants and developed a scoring system for donor kidneys that they hope might […]
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