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Chronic kidney disease includes conditions that damage your kidneys and decrease their ability to keep you healthy by doing the jobs listed. If kidney disease gets worse, wastes can build to high levels in your blood and make you feel sick. The success rates of transplant surgery have improved remarkably, but growing shortages exist in the supply of organs and tissues available for transplantation. Dialysis is a treatment that does some of the things done by healthy kidneys. It is needed when your own kidneys can no longer take care of your body's needs. Learn more from experts about transplant surgery and dialysis.

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New Research: Could Organ Recipients Forgo Anti-Rejection Medication?
Kidney transplant recipients currently must take immune-suppressing medications to prevent organ rejection, which can make them vulnerable to infections and disease. In this podcast, Dr. Joseph Leventhal explains ongoing clinical trials at...
by Patient Power | 03/27/2012
Thermal Ablation: A New Treatment Therapy for Kidney and Liver Tumors
In this podcast, Dr. Sato will discuss thermal ablation and how someone with a kidney or liver tumor may benefit from this new treatment. He will explain how it is...
by Patient Power | 05/09/2011
Kidney Transplant: Live Organ Donation and Transplantation
The number of people needing kidney transplants in the United States today far outweighs the number of deceased donor kidneys available. With diabetes on the rise and other diseases contributing...
by Patient Power | 06/26/2009
Preparing for Dialysis: A Vascular Surgeon's Advice
Most people with failed kidneys undergo dialysis, an artificial blood-cleaning process. The management of dialysis is a challenge for many patients. There are important questions to ask your doctor to...
by Patient Power | 05/14/2009