Monthly Archives: November 2009

MoH to push for ban on LURD organ transplantation: expert – Arab Times


MoH to push for ban on LURD organ transplantation: expert
Arab Times
Dr Musawi noted that as his center made donations by unrelated donors more difficult by deeply scrutinizing patient-donor relations, the incidence of ...

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Transplantation and Treatment of Liver Disease at Einstein – Physicians News Digest


Transplantation and Treatment of Liver Disease at Einstein
Physicians News Digest
In the treatment of liver disease and the management of liver transplantation, Dr. Araya is particularly dedicated to treating each patient as a whole ...

Student donates bone marrow to stranger, shares story – Etownian


Etownian

Student donates bone marrow to stranger, shares story
Etownian
Senior Danielle Hopkins will be participating in a peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation. She entered the Be the Match registry when there was a drive ...

Posttransplant survival is not diminished in heart transplant recipients … – The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery


Posttransplant survival is not diminished in heart transplant recipients ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
... transplant hospitalization length of stay; and long-term complications including diabetes mellitus, transplant coronary artery disease, ...

Physician Bias Might Keep Life-saving Transplants From Black And Hispanic Patients – Science Daily (press release)


Physician Bias Might Keep Life-saving Transplants From Black And Hispanic Patients
Science Daily (press release)
Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Georgetown University Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Georgetown ...

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Marine donates kidney to 15-year-old – Charleston Post Courier


Marine donates kidney to 15-year-old
Charleston Post Courier
Donors such as Fackey are rare in South Carolina, said Lucia Miles, MUSC's transplant coordinator for living donors. They are called "Good Samaritan" donors ...

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Transplant patient thankful for every day – Dothan Eagle


Dothan Eagle

Transplant patient thankful for every day
Dothan Eagle
One call to the transplant coordinator at UAB and Pritchard was having blood drawn. After three more blood tests, doctors at UAB said Pritchard was a match. ...

Call for more donor transplant coordinators – Nursing Times


Call for more donor transplant coordinators
Nursing Times
At present there are 170 donor transplant coordinator (DTC) teams in service with NHS Blood and Transplant, but there is a “real need” for more and the ...

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Patient devastated to get cancer from kidney transplant – BBC News


Patient devastated to get cancer from kidney transplant
BBC News
She is clear of the disease but is reluctant to have another transplant. Surgeons have told File on 4 that they are carrying out transplants using organs ...
Swap transplant: Hope for kidney patientsTimes of India
Don't give your kidneys to heaven, we need them herePhilippine Star
Mum gives kidney to save son's lifeSwindon Advertiser

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11-year-old is Mumbai’s youngest deceased kidney donor – Daily News & Analysis


11-year-old is Mumbai's youngest deceased kidney donor
Daily News & Analysis
But the girl is the youngest deceased kidney donor in the city," confirmed Dr Vatsala Trivedi of the Zonal Transplant Co-ordination Committee (ZTCC-Mumbai). ...

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