Articles on organ transplant care: evaluation, living donation, life after a transplant and long-term follow-up.
A kidney transplant evaluation is a series of blood tests, tissue typing, imaging studies and interviews that a transplant team uses to judge whether…
Life after a kidney transplant usually means taking anti-rejection medicines every day for as long as the kidney works, keeping regular clinic and blood-test…
A kidney transplant is performed under general anesthesia through an incision in the lower abdomen. The surgeon places the donated kidney in the pelvis,…
A liver transplant evaluation is a structured series of heart, lung, kidney, infection, cancer-screening and psychosocial tests that a transplant team uses to decide…
Liver transplant recovery usually begins with a few days in intensive care, followed by roughly one to two weeks on a transplant ward, then…
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