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What celebrity has had a kidney transplant? 

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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections in Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
Randall White, Kenneth Abreo, Richard Flanagan, Merit F. Gadallah, Kevin Krane, Mohamed EI-Shahawy, Shoba Shakamuri, Robert McCoy 
01 Oct 1993-American Journal of Kidney Diseases
56 Citations
One patient has received a successful renal transplant.
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Impact of immunosuppression treatment on the improvement in graft survival after deceased donor renal transplantation: a long-term cohort study
M. Gonzalez-Molina, Dolores Burgos, Mercedes Cabello, Pedro Ruiz-Esteban, M.A. Rodriguez, C. Gutierrez, Verónica López, Víctor Baena, Domingo Hernández 
01 Jan 2014-Nefrologia
12 Citations
Modern immunosuppression could have contributed to the improved kidney transplant outcome.
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Kidney Transplant from the Same Donor without Maintenance Immunosuppression after Previous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
J. Fangmann, H. Kathrin Al-Ali, Ulrich Sack, Manja Kamprad, H. M. Tautenhahn, S Faber, J. Hauss, Dietger Niederwieser, T. Lindner, A. Bachmann 
01 Jan 2011-American Journal of Transplantation
22 Citations
This unique case is the first report of a successful kidney transplant without immunosuppression after HSCT from the same haploidentical donor.
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Determinants of the Decision to Accept a Kidney from a Donor at Increased Risk for Blood-Borne Viral Infection
Peter P. Reese, Tara Tehrani, Mary Ann Lim, David A. Asch, Emily A. Blumberg, Maureen K. Simon, Roy D. Bloom, Scott D. Halpern 
01 May 2010-Clinical Journal of The American Society of Nephrology
59 Citations
Most renal transplant candidates would accept a DIRVI kidney under some circumstances.
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Renal transplantation in 4 patients with methylmalonic aciduria: a cell therapy for metabolic disease.
Anaïs Brassier, Olivia Boyer, Vassili Valayannopoulos, Chris Ottolenghi, Pauline Krug, M.A. Cosson, Guy Touati, Jean-Baptiste Arnoux, Valérie Barbier, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Isabelle Desguerre, Marina Charbit, J.F. Benoist, Laurent Dupic, Yves Aigrain, Thomas Blanc, Rémi Salomon, Daniel Rabier, Geneviève Guest, P. de Lonlay, Patrick Niaudet 
01 Sep 2013-Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
40 Citations
A kidney transplant may partially correct the metabolic dysfunctions.
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Kidney transplantation in a girl with methylmalonic acidemia and end stage renal failure
Riccardo Lubrano, P. Scoppi, P. Barsotti, Elisabetta Travasso, S. Scateni, S. Cristaldi, M. A. Castello 
01 Nov 2001-Pediatric Nephrology
33 Citations
We think that a kidney transplant could be a good therapeutic choice for the metabolic alterations in MMA with end stage renal disease.
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Recruitment of live donors by candidates for kidney transplantation.
Peter P. Reese, Judy A. Shea, Jeffrey S. Berns, Maureen K. Simon, Marshall M. Joffe, Roy D. Bloom, Harold I. Feldman 
01 Jul 2008-Clinical Journal of The American Society of Nephrology
46 Citations
Attempts at donor recruitment by kidney transplant candidates are common.
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Living Unrelated Kidney Transplantation: Does It Prevent Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation Growth?
Nasser Simforoosh, Abbas Basiri, Ali Tabibi, Mohammad Nadjafi-Semnani 
01 Jan 2019-Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation
3 Citations
This breakthrough in our country was the first in our unrelated living-donor kidney transplant program.
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Kidney autotransplantation: long-term outcomes and complications. Experience in a tertiary hospital and literature review.
Mercedes Ruiz, Vital Hevia, Jose-Javier Fabuel, Alvaro-Amancio Fernández, Victoria Gómez, F.J. Burgos 
21 Aug 2017-International Urology and Nephrology
22 Citations
As a challenging surgery, it should be performed by experienced kidney transplant surgeons.
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Late Kidney Dysfunction in a Kidney Transplant Recipient
Michelle A. Josephson
07 Mar 2014-Clinical Journal of The American Society of Nephrology
9 Citations
Late kidney transplant dysfunction may be a harbinger of graft failure.

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