16.5 percent of all non-kidney transplant recipients develop chronic kidney failure

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Organ transplant recipients face problems

Posted on Thursday, September 04 @ 10:34:04 CEST by Superuser

A new study released Wednesday indicates transplant recipients of new

hearts, lungs, livers or intestines, are likely to suffer kidney failure.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 3 (UPI)

The University of Michigan Health System study, published in the New England

Journal of Medicine, shows 16.5 percent of all non-kidney transplant

recipients develop chronic kidney failure, and nearly a third of those

patients develop full-blown, end-stage renal disease.

Patients whose kidneys begin to fail after their transplant face a much

larger risk of dying than those whose kidneys remain healthy. Only a second

transplant -- to put in a new kidney -- mitigates the fatal consequences of

end stage renal disease.

The researchers said they were not able to identify the causes of the kidney

failure seen in the study of 69,321 people who received transplants of any

solid organ except kidney or pancreas between 1990 and 2000. The study was

the largest ever conducted of its kind.

[Guest guest]

Organ transplant recipients face problems

Posted on Thursday, September 04 @ 10:34:04 CEST by Superuser

A new study released Wednesday indicates transplant recipients of new

hearts, lungs, livers or intestines, are likely to suffer kidney failure.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 3 (UPI)

The University of Michigan Health System study, published in the New England

Journal of Medicine, shows 16.5 percent of all non-kidney transplant

recipients develop chronic kidney failure, and nearly a third of those

patients develop full-blown, end-stage renal disease.

Patients whose kidneys begin to fail after their transplant face a much

larger risk of dying than those whose kidneys remain healthy. Only a second

transplant -- to put in a new kidney -- mitigates the fatal consequences of

end stage renal disease.

The researchers said they were not able to identify the causes of the kidney

failure seen in the study of 69,321 people who received transplants of any

solid organ except kidney or pancreas between 1990 and 2000. The study was

the largest ever conducted of its kind.