Kidney transplantation

number of people waiting for a transplant in Canada. Iran, the only country where organ trade is legal has a no shortage of organ donors as money is being offered for donation and due to poverty in the country they have a lot of donors (Dehghan, “Kidneys for Sale: Poor Iranians Compete to Sell Their Organs”). Since poverty in Canada is a lot lower than it is in Iran, Canada might not get as many donors as Iran has but definitely would end up having more donors than they do now. A scenario where…

Regenerative Medicine Regeneration is not a new idea at all, lizards have been doing it for thousands of years! According to BioMedCentral.com, Aristotle observed a lizard regenerating its tail in 330 BC (Jessop). However, lizards are not the only animals capable of regenerating a lost or damaged appendage; Zebrafish can regrow a lost fin or even a heart, newts and other amphibians can regrow entire limbs, starfish can regrow their entire body from just a single limb, and a deer can…

Review of Case Study The case study we chose to research relates to kidney disease, the increased incidence of caries and periodontal disease. This case study patient is a 49 year old Caucasian female. She is healthy with the exception of having polycystic kidney disease. For this condition the patient does not take medications or receive any type of dialysis treatments. This patient has several missing teeth, large restorations on all posterior teeth, crowns and root canals. Currently she…

recent research, that troponins levels might be elevated in certain non-cardiac conditions such as pulmonary embolism, sepsis and renal insufficiency inter alias[42]. It has been noted in patients with ESRD that, without any symptoms or signs of ACS, troponin level is elevated. Such findings put clinicians in a dilemma in the realm of diagnostics and treatment. Renal and cardiovascular diseases are intricately linked showing a moderately high level of co-occurrence. It has been noted that…

one option for treatment is a double lung transplantation. Lung transplantation sounds great and can be very beneficial, but it has its risks and there are ethical issues involved. The ethical issues that are involved include: what the criteria is for lung transplants, how lung transplants work, and what the mental aspect of lung transplant is. The ten literature reviews indicate and contraindicate these ethical issues involved with lung transplantation in CF…

States of America are currently on a waiting list for a lifesaving kidney. This is a very depressing fact that many families are dealing with right now. The average wait time for a persons first kidney transplant is about three and a half years. For many they just can 't wait that long for a kidney. This puts people in desperate situations to get a kidney transplant. When waiting isn’t an option there is an alternative to getting a kidney and that is through the black market. We all know you can…

itself. It is what the world has been going through for more than two decades up to this point. The shortage within the supply of organs, in this case, Kidneys. Kidneys are at a high demand not just domestically but internationally and that is where the problem began to get uncontrollable. In the year 2000, 2,583 Americans died while waiting for a Kidney transplant. While internationally the number sat right around 50,000 people. With the sale of organs being illegal internationally, that is…

Kidney Transplants In the United States there are 121,678 people waiting for a life saving organ transplant. Of those, there are 100,791 waiting for a kidney transplant. People are put on the kidney transplant list when their own kidneys begin to fail. A kidney transplant is an option to help prolong the life of a person who is experiencing kidney failure. The process of a kidney transplant is very long and stressful process and sometimes ends poorly. Even though kidney transplants are not…

can get the surgery. A former staff member of an anonymous Chinese hospital claimed that her doctor husband has removed 2,000 corneas while the patients were still alive. The body of the patients were then secretly incinerated. In China, organ transplantation has been condemned as impossible to understand and unethical. Critics claimed that death row prisoners may feel pressured to donate their organs. Even when it is against certain prisoner’s religion or cultural beliefs, they are still being…

A patient must be, “At risk of imminent death from biventricular failure, have no other medical or surgical treatment options, eligible for heart transplantation, have sufficient space in the chest cavity to accommodate the device. Generally this includes patients who have a body surface area ≥ 1.7m2” (TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART). An artificial heart transplant is suggested by a heart surgeon when the patient…