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Blood Vessel Surgery Safe for Diabetics

... at all, is a major risk factor for heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and limb amputations. But Dr. Allan D. Hamdan and colleagues found that, though diabetes has been considered to be a risk factor for death or heart problems after major vascular surgery, it actually is not. He and his colleagues a...

Filtration treatment assigns more live kidney donation

... filtering out the antibodies that can cause donor kidney rejection allows a higher success rate with live donor transplants. Many patients need a kidney transplant but are denied one because no donor organ can be found. Body organs, from dead bodies, ar...

Changing stem cells to liver cells

... protein made by liver, urea, which is specific to kidney and liver, and P450, the liver's detoxifying enzyme. It's an exciting development, for liver cells have a range of potential applications. They could be used to help patients with genetic liver disease. They may also be used to repair the liver in ...

Increase in renal problems

...control rats. However, by treating the rats with kidney failure with an antioxidant called des-methyl-tiri... 100,000 people in the UK suffer from some form of kidney disease, excluding cystitis and kidney stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in t...

New operation for kidney cancer

...ng to researchers, that three years on, a group of kidney cancer patients have had no recurrence of their di... of Mississippi have developed a new operation for kidney cancer, called interventional-MRI renal cryosurgery. //The procedure relies on magnetic resonance im...

Bone loss can be reduced by Potassium

...ly reduced by potassium supplements. Treatment for kidney stones has the spin-off of increasing bone density...assium citrate is often given as a treatment// for kidney stones. Hence it has been lseen, how potassium supplements affect bone density in these patients. ...

Effect of drug on Renal Cancer

..., a new study shows thalidomide at higher doses in kidney cancer patients is associated with manageable side...ned the effects of escalating thalidomide doses in kidney cancer patients. Patients received oral thalidomide starting at 200 mg per day. Researchers increase...

Heart test may detect death risk

...isk factors such as advanced age, heart failure or kidney failure. Researchers examined data on more than 5,000 patients, average age 60, who had successful catheterization procedures and did not have heart attacks or require emergency surgery. About 15 percent of the patients had CK-MB levels above normal...

Importance of type of sex in organ transplantation

...nated organ. The study covered more than 114,000 kidney transplants, 25,000 heart transplants and 15,050 l... world. For men, the risk of losing a transplanted kidney was 22 per cent more if the donor was female. Women receiving a kidney were 12 per cent more likely ...

Recognizing heart risk in dialysis patients

... of albumin indicate high risk of heart disease in kidney patients. Of the 25% of patients who die while on kidney dialysis,// half do so from heart disease. Previous studies suggest that such patients run between f...

Lead can be fatal

...be a risk factor and potential// cause for cancer, kidney disease, cardiovascular problems, and fertility problems. However, there have only been a small number of studies to investigate the connection of lead exposure to mortality in the general population. Researchers assessed the link by examining foll...

Renal problem increased

...control rats. However, by treating the rats with kidney failure with an antioxidant called des-methyl-tiri... 100,000 people in the UK suffer from some form of kidney disease, excluding cystitis and kidney stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in t...

More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure

...alled the "silent killer" is also a main source of kidney problems. The significant finding of the study is that lowering blood pressure helped younger people more than they did for the elderly and that it's benefits weren't limited to people who brought their blood pressure down from unhealthy levels. The...

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

...trategy called plasmapheresis, which is similar to kidney dialysis where the blood is replaced with healthy blood. However, the patient who underwent the new treatment did not respond to the standard treatment and was subjected to immune suppression with two drugs - rituximab and cyclophosphamide. Researche...

AEterna's acquisition of Zentaris being followed up with its new product pipeline and clinical development strategy

...ctly focus on the two ongoing Phase III studies in kidney cancer and lung cancer. Results of the kidney cancer trial are expected by the first or second quarter of 2003, while those of the lung cancer tri...

Kidney function can be affected by lead exposure

...that exposure to lead may lead to deterioration of kidney function. Researchers in Taiwan, in a new study, have now shown that kidney function in people with chronic kidney problems may be adversely affected due to environmental lead ...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...a gene mutation in people with a family history of kidney stones, which makes them absorb too much calcium. ...d on six gene mutations which increase the risk of kidney stones, because they cause too much calcium absorption - a condition known as absorptive hypercalciu...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...eart disease. Among those conditions, he adds, are kidney disease and a predisposition to blood clots. Study author Dr. Gordon C. S. Smith, a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cambridge University said that certain antibodies are associated with miscarriage as well as the risk of heart disease. How...

Diabetes could become an epidemic

...condition can lead to heart disease, blindness and kidney failure. It is also estimated that 1m people nationally are unaware they even have it. There is an urgent need to address// prevention of diabetes. As body fat increases the risk of developing diabetes grows. The more fat we have, the less we are abl...

Lithium May help in Alzheimer's Disease

...al problems does have many side effects, including kidney damage. "Potentially, lithium could be used to reverse both the pathological features of Alzheimer's disease," said Dr. Peter Klein of the University of Pennsylvania who co-authored the current study. "It seems you could block with a single medicin...

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