Kidney Unit
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Alemtuzumab Information for Adult Kidney Transplant Recipients
This leaflet contains information about a medicine called Alemtuzumab that is used to prevent kidney transplant rejection.
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Chronic Kidney Disease
The information enclosed is to help you make an informed decision about your treatment as your kidney function worsens and your symptoms change.
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Enhanced Recovery Diary for Kidney Transplant Patients
This diary is to help you record your daily goals after surgery. Achieving these goals can prevent complications after your operation and reduce your length of stay in hospital.
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Enhanced Recovery Diary for Live Renal Donors
This diary is to help you record your daily goals after your surgery. It can be helpful for you to see how you are able to do a little more each day, when you are recovering in hospital and when you get home.
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Fistulogram, Fistuloplasty and Venoplasty
Information about a procedure to examine the blood vessels of a fistula.
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Going to hospital for a new kidney
Easy read information about going to hospital for a new kidney.
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HistocompatibiIity testing for kidney transplant donors
You have come forward to see if you might be a suitable organ donor for a family member or close friend who needs a kidney transplant. Before you can donate your kidney, you will need to provide blood samples for a number of tests.
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HistocompatibiIity testing for kidney transplant patients
Your guide to laboratory testing and giving your permission, for scientists to test, and store, your blood sample.
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Is Kidney Transplantation for you?
This booklet is the first in a series of information, the purpose of which is to help you understand all aspects of kidney transplantation on the journey from assessment, to suitability for a transplant, through to how to care for your transplant in the years following transplant surgery.
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Kidney Transplant: The Operation
This booklet has been written to explain the kidney transplant operation to you including waiting for a transplant, coming in for your transplant, potential complications and the recovery afterwards.
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MSSA screening and decolonisation
Research has shown that we can reduce the risk of serious infection if we screen and treat patients for MSSA.
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My Transplant Calendar
To be used in conjunction with Enhanced Recovery Diary for Kidney Transplant Patients (LN004472).
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Peritoneal dialysis
Information about the operation to insert a Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter
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Renal Transition Service Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This information should help explain and reassure you about some of the changes that have made within Adult Renal Service for transition patients due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
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Transplant Service Evaluation
We value feedback on your interaction with us, it is important to understand your experience and perception of the care delivered by our team.
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Trial without Catheter (TWOC)
A leaflet about what happens when a catheter is removed from your bladder to see if you are able to pass sufficient urine
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Use of Hepatitis C Infected Organs in Hepatitis C Negative Recipients
The information in this leaflet will help you to decide whether or not you would accept a kidney transplant from a donor who has had Hepatitis C.
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Welcome to the Renal Intervention Centre (RIC)
This leaflet is about the services offered at the Renal Intervention Centre (RIC) and what to expect when you arrive.
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What happens when you need a new kidney (a kidney transplant)
Easy read information about what happens when you need a new kidney.
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Writing to your donor’s family
Information about writing to your donor's family
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Writing to your kidney recipient
Information for live renal donors about writing to their kidney recipient
