A Simple Blood Test Mismatch May Predict Kidney Failure, Heart Disease, and Death

Disagreement between creatinine and cystatin C kidney tests signals a much higher risk of serious disease and death, ...
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Donor-recipient blood type mismatch not of concern in osteochondral allograft procedures

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . TAMPA, Fla. — Among patients who underwent osteochondral allograft transplantation, failure of the procedure was ...
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World’s First Blood Type A-to-O Kidney Transplant Achieved by Avivo and UBC Researchers

More than 3,500 Canadians and 100,000 Americans await lifesaving organ transplants, yet many donor organs go unused due to blood-type mismatch. Researchers in this study used a proprietary enzyme ...
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Medical Team Converts Kidney Blood Type in Pioneering Transplant

Researchers have converted a blood type A kidney to a blood type O kidney and successfully transplanted it, they reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, an advance that could reduce wait times for ...
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World’s First Blood Type A-to-O Kidney Transplant Achieved by Avivo and UBC Researchers

In a world-first, researchers have successfully transplanted a donor kidney after converting it from blood type A to the universal type O, removing one of the biggest barriers in organ donation: blood ...