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Organ Transplants
Information, news, research and opinions on organ transplantation and donation.
For years, Frank Valenzuela has raised money to help people.
This year, family, friends and businesses are pitching in to help him. He’s pursuing a kidney transplant and has hefty medical expenses.
The Graham resident is hoping to have the...
- Family hopes to change view of organ donations (detnews.com)
Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Georgetown University Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center, and colleagues explore this phenomenon in the November issue of the American Journal of Transplantation...
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SHELBY — Cleveland County Sheriff Raymond Hamrick, who’s battled kidney failure the past two years, recently received a kidney transplant, Chief Deputy Danny Gordon confirmed Monday.
The sheriff’s name has adorned prayer lists at churches...
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- Sheriff receives kidney transplant (shelbystar.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - After liver transplantation for hepatitis C virus (HCV) cirrhosis, women in a recent study were at greater risk of graft loss than were men. Women also exhibited a trend towards decreased survival at 3 years.
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- For Adult-To-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Left Side Grafting Is... (medicalnewstoday.com)
The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital. "We found that transplant between races had better outcomes than transplant across races," says Anita Patel, M.D., transplant nephrologist at Henry Ford Hospital Transplant Institute and lead author of the study.
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- Donor race may impact kidney transplant survival (eurekalert.org)
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifty individuals who had lost hope of ever having the kidney transplants that would save their lives have reason to celebrate today as Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital announced a national transplant milestone – its 50th paired kidney exchange transplant. This unprecedented number of exchange transplants at a single center makes the San Antonio program the busiest paired exchange transplant program in...
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On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Between 2000 and 2004, four members of Japan's Yakuza, a "powerful organized crime syndicate," received liver transplants.
Despite a long list of patients in need, Tadamasa Goto, a man described as Japan's John Gotti, received a liver in just six weeks after cutting a deal with the FBI. Logan...
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- Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New... (search.live.com)


