Knowledge about Renal Transplantation among African, Caribbean, and Black Canadian Patients with Advanced Kidney Failure

HEARING LOSS IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE AND CHANGES WITH KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

Loss of hearing is a known problem in patients with chronic renal failure, occurring in 40-XO% of cases and being most often of the high frequency sensorineural type. We performed a study on 50 patients with this disease, including 20 who had undergone a successful kidney transplantation. Our results show an 80% incidence of hearing loss in these patients and a chance of improvement in at l...

Exploring Knowledge About Dialysis, Transplantation, and Living Donation Among Patients and Their Living Kidney Donors

BACKGROUND In order to make a well-considered decision and give informed consent about renal replacement therapy, potential living kidney donors and recipients should have sufficient understanding of the options and risks. PURPOSE We aimed to explore knowledge about Dialysis & Transplantation (DT) and Living Donation (LD) among prospective living kidney donors and recipients. METHODS Eighty...

mineral and bone disease in african renal failure patients

Dialysis and transplantation among Aboriginal children with kidney failure.

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the management and outcomes of Aboriginal children with renal failure in Canada. We evaluated differences in dialysis modality, time spent on dialysis, rates of kidney transplantation, and patient and allograft survival between Aboriginal children and non-Aboriginal children. METHODS For this population-based cohort study, we used data from a nation...

Simultaneous heart and kidney transplantation in patients with end-stage heart and renal failure.

Combined simultaneous organ transplantation has become more common as selection criteria for transplantation have broadened. Broadening selection criteria is secondary to improved immunosuppression and surgical techniques. The kidney is the most common extrathoracic organ to be simultaneously transplanted with the heart. A series of 13 patients suffering from both end-stage heart and renal fail...