Kidney transplantation

Organ harvesting is a worldwide market that is illegal is every single country except for one. The process of selling organs is illegal in the United States and is referred to as the black market. Many people are willing to sell their organs in exchange for a great amount of money, so the people who run the black market, known as organ traffickers, target patients who have become desperate after waiting for the impossible. The illegal sale of organs is a world-wide problem that involves human…

Mucus, in a nonaffected individual, is thin and slick and protects the lining of many organs and tissues. Cystic fibrosis causes the body to over produce abnormally sticky and thick mucus, damaging organs and blocking the lungs. It may cause severe breathing issues and create and environment for bacteria to infect the lungs. Cystic fibrosis was discovered in 1938 by Dr. Dorothy Anderson and after more visibility, the disease prompted the creation of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research…

The article “Beyond the Glass” by Daniel C. Weaver, describes everyday life of a pathologists. In this article, Dr. Weaver diagnoses a patient with hemochromatosis, which is a liver disease caused by the excess buildup of an iron. He also explains the thought process of identifying a disease, and the experiment that goes along with it. Dr. Weaver’s comparison of his own life as a pathologist to that of detective, helps reader understand his role, which makes this story more powerful. “A slide…

• What other pertinent medical information would you want to ask Edith? I would like to find out more about when Edith was diagnosed with hypertension and high cholesterol, what medications or vitamins she takes, if she has a past surgical history and what her diet consists of (due to the fact that she presents with a 20lb weight loss). In addition, due to the daughter’s report of her mother’s worsening depression and worsening memory loss, I would be interested to know how involved her daughter…

The renal artery supplies blood to the kidney. The human kidneys receive approximately 25% of the blood pumped. Blood enters the capillaries of the nephron through the afferent arteriole. It then flows through the glomerulus and into the efferent arteriole. The varying sizes of these arterioles help to create the hydrostatic pressure and to maintain consistency of glomerular capillary pressure and renal blood flow within the glomerulus Before returning to the renal vein, blood from the…

3- Complications of Roux-en-Y Bypass: Table: Incidence and timings of postoperative complications after LRYGB Complication Incidence (%) Timing (early 1 month) GI bleed 1–2 Early Leak 1–2 Early/intermediate Ulcers and GG fistula 4 Late GI obstruction 5 Late but may occur early/intermediate Thromboembolism 0.1–1.3 Early/intermediate Skin complications variable Late Nutritional complications (of some degree) variable Late Metabolic complications…

Renal complications Renal damage is almost inevitable in sickle-cell disease. There is a strong tendency for HbS to polymerise in the renal medulla, because of the low partial pressure of oxygen, the low pH, and the high osmolality causing erythrocyte dehydration. The consequent vaso-occlusion causes renal infarction with papillary necrosis, and medullary fibrosis with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Other complications include haematuria, renal medullary carcinoma, nocturnal enuresis…

Prostatitis Overview- The prostatitis is an inflammation of the prostate gland, which can run in acute or chronic form. In most cases, the inflammation of the prostate is of origin bacterial. In other men prostatitis flows from eziopatologici elements of other nature: the case of nonbacterial prostatitis or idiopathic, an inflammation of the prostate to etiology unknown, and prostatodynia, a pain prostate separated from ' inflammation, accordingly (alleged) of a marked tension of the pelvic…

Why You Should Be an Organ Donor Everyday approximately twenty-one people die while waiting for a transplant (Citation). Being an organ donor can impact and save countless lives. What many people do not know about being an organ donor is that they can still have an open casket funeral; donation is only considered after a patient has passed away, and they can save many lives. Donors can still have an open casket funeral which is another worry to some. This is a common misconception as well.…

Results Understanding the structure of the kidney The kidney consists of two main regions the medulla region and the cortex (see Figure 12, 13, 14 and 15). These two regions contain about one million tiny filtering structures called nephrons. Each nephron consists of a very small filter (glomerulus) which is attached to a tubule. As blood is passed through the nephrons, fluids and waste products are filtered out. What can be seen in Figures 12, 13 and 14 is the glomeruli and the ducts.…