Posts Tagged ‘normothermic perfusion’
Giving donor kidneys a boost so more transplants are possible
Giving donor kidneys a boost so more transplants are possible 22 October 2019 What is the problem? More than 5000 people are on the kidney transplant waiting list. Around half of all donor kidneys can’t be transplanted because they are not healthy enough, or doctors use ‘marginal’ kidneys of lower quality – but these are…
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Changing the way we transplant kidneys with normothermic perfusion Over £850,000 in funding from Kidney Research UK has enabled Professor Mike Nicholson to develop and test a new technique to revolutionise the way kidney transplant operations are done. The first project to be funded through our Making Every Kidney Count Appeal is being led by…
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