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To check out The Playroom, visit www.theplayroomonline.com
Immediately following his diagnosis, Eddie started his 2 year dialysis treatment. His story was made public in May on 2013
Miraculously, Vicki, Eddie’s long time life partner was a donor match and Eddie was transplanted on May 14, 2014. Thinking he was all set and good to go, Eddie had no idea his real struggles had only begun. PLEASE NOTE THAT EDDIE’s POST TRANSPLANT STORY IS VERY UNIQUE AND IS LITERALLY 1 IN A MILLION. Read about it here.
Eddie is now on the road to recovery. He is enjoying playing in the band Charity Case, is producing music, and runs the Playroom. He also spends a lot of his time raising awareness for kidney disease. His goal is to try and help prevent even just one person from having to start dialysis treatment. The key points of his message are….. 1) Kidney disease can strike anyone. Rich, poor, black, white, young, old, male or female etc. It’s an equal opportunity disease. 2) Even in the most dire of circumstances, this disease can be beat. NEVER GIVE UP. If you’d like to email Eddie directly, you can reach him by clicking here.
Eddie has been contracted to write a book on his story and is also developing a musical about his life and his battle with kidney disease.
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The number was even higher — 84 percent — when the Mayo Clinic’s national poll asked respondents whether they would be very or somewhat likely to consider donating a kidney or portion of their liver to a close friend or family member.
The results reveal an uptick in people’s willingness to consider donating an organ. A 2001 Gallup survey found that 76 percent of respondents would likely donate a kidney to a close friend, while 24 percent said they would give a kidney to a stranger.
The new findings are encouraging, said Dr. Mikel Prieto, surgical director of kidney transplantation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
“As living organ donation becomes more widely known and accepted — and as the safety and surgical proficiency continue to improve — we hope that more people will come forward and offer to help loved ones who need kidney and liver transplants,” Prieto said in a Mayo news release. “It’s also very heartening to hear that the willingness to consider donating a kidney to a stranger has increased so significantly.”
The survey also found that 61 percent of respondents would want their organs donated after they die and 51 percent said they have formally indicated their wishes by registering as an organ donor. Respondents aged 35 to 44 were most likely to want to donate their organs after death.
Older people may not know that organ donation generally has no age limit and that it may still be possible even for people with a history of cancer or other serious medical conditions.
“Here at Mayo Clinic, we have successfully transplanted organs from donors who are in their 70s and 80s, providing an amazing gift of life to older or very sick recipients who may not have lived long enough to receive another organ,” Prieto said.
April is National Donate Life Month. More than 118,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ transplant.
More information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about organ donation.
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]]>In a paper published today in The Lancet an international team, including Monash University’s Professor John Bertram and the University of Queensland’s Professor Wendy Hoy, reviewed existing, peer-reviewed research on kidney health and developmental programming — the effects of the in utero environment on adult health.
The accumulated evidence linked low birth weight and prematurity — risk factors for high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease later in life — with low numbers of the kidney’s filtration units or nephrons.
In Australia, around 30 per cent of the adult population has high blood pressure and one in nine has at least one clinical symptom of chronic kidney disease. The incidence of both diseases is significantly higher in Indigenous populations.
Professor Bertram, Head of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, has been researching nephrons for two decades.
“The kidney is particularly sensitive to life before birth because we stop making nephrons at 36 weeks gestation. So, for a baby born at term, the process of nephron formation is finished and it cannot be restarted,” Professor Bertram said.
Humans are born with an average of one million nephrons and lose up to 6000 each year. However, Professor Bertram’s research has shown there is a huge variance in nephron number — from just over 200,000 to around two million. Further, nephron number is positively related to birth weight — a low birth weight equates to low nephron number and larger babies have a higher nephron number.
Given that low birth weight occurs in 15 per cent of live births worldwide, the study has implications for maternal health and clinical screening processes.
“In terms of maternal health during pregnancy, things like a high fat diet, alcohol consumption, various antibiotics and stress hormones have been shown to have a negative impact on fetal kidney development, although more research needs to be done,” Professor Bertram said.
“Further, given the strong associations between birth weight, nephron number and disease later in life, and the fact that a baby’s weight is routinely recorded in many countries, we suggest that birth weight should be a parameter that clinicians use to determine how often a patient is screened for kidney function or given a blood pressure test.
“Although a newborn may appear perfect, if their birth weight is low, there may be consequences 40 years down the line. We could be proactive about detecting these diseases in the early stages.”
Taken From: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130530192425.htm
The article reports on a study aimed at developing and testing a new index that can calculate survival for various options a patient faces with end-stage kidney disease. It included patients on the kidney transplant wait list between 1995 and October 2006 as well as those who had a kidney transplant as their first therapy during the same time.
The index uses readily available data so it can be used in clinics during transplantation counseling. It has a simple scoring system to calculate survival without transplant, with deceased donor transplantation and with living donor transplantation. The goal is to improve decision making by patients and physicians by providing calculated survival information at the time of transplant counseling.
Kidney transplantation is the optimal choice for people with end-stage kidney disease because it improves quality of life and survival rates. Overall, kidney transplant recipients have a 68% lower risk of death than those eligible for transplantation that remained on dialysis. While the benefits of transplantation are significant, there is a need to look at other factors before proceeding including quality of life after transplantation, immunosuppressive medication side effects, malignancy risk, and the need for an extensive medical evaluation or ongoing re-evaluation.
Dr. Carl van Walraven, and coauthors conclude that this prognostic index can accurately to predict mortality among patients with end stage renal disease eligible for transplantation. “We believe that this renal prognostic index can provide valuable quantitative survival data for clinicians and patients to use when deciding on whether to pursue transplantation or remain on dialysis.”
Taken From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329123308.htm
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