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This list of notable organ transplant donors and recipients includes people who were the first to undergo certain organ transplant procedures or were people who made significant contributions to their chosen field and who have either donated or received an organ transplant at some point in their lives, as confirmed by public information. (wikipedia.org)
See also Category:Heart transplant recipients See also Category:Kidney transplant recipients See also Category:Liver transplant recipients See also Category:Lung transplant recipients Moffatt SL, Cartwright VA, Stumpf TH. (wikipedia.org)
In doing so, Todd has contributed to successful transplants for several recipients. (giftoflifemichigan.org)
Title : Burkitt lymphoma risk in U.S. solid organ transplant recipients Personal Author(s) : Mbulaiteye, Sam M.;Clarke, Christina A.;Morton, Lindsay M.;Gibson, Todd M.;Pawlish, Karen;Weisenburger, Dennis D.;Lynch, Charles F.;Goodman, Marc T.;Engels, Eric A. (cdc.gov)
Case reports of Burkitt lymphoma (BL) in transplant recipients suggest that the risk is markedly elevated. (cdc.gov)
Therefore, we investigated the incidence of BL in 203,557 solid organ recipients in the U.S. Transplant Cancer Match Study (1987-2009) and compared it with the general population using standardized incidence ratios. (cdc.gov)
People of blood type AB are known as the ″universal recipients″ because they are able to accept an organ or blood from someone of any other blood type. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
According to the Milan criteria, transplant recipients must have only a single HCC tumor no bigger than 5 centimeters (about 2 inches) in diameter or two to three tumors of 3 centimeters or less at the time of diagnosis. (cancer.gov)
The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would provide a flexible framework to policymakers responsible for deciding which potential recipients get organs as they become available-decisions that must be based on various priority and fairness criteria. (hbs.edu)
Once an organ is available, there can be thousands of compatible recipients queuing up. (hbs.edu)
Organs typically need to be transplanted within 36 to 48 hours, otherwise they begin to deteriorate, so recipients who live close to the source of the donated organ often are logistically preferable. (hbs.edu)
That chronic immune suppression, Sonnenday said, is responsible for most of the long-term health risks that transplant recipients face -- including not only infections, but various types of cancer, and kidney and heart disease. (msdmanuals.com)

But a rash of new experiments, including three involving pig kidneys transplanted into people being kept temporarily alive on ventilators, has provided tantalizing evidence that achieving the decades-old ambition may finally be in reach. (sciencenews.org)
One day, the dream goes, genetically modified pigs like this sow will be sliced open, their hearts, kidneys, lungs and livers sped to transplant centers to save desperately sick patients from death. (technologyreview.com)
They are too big to accumulate in native tissue or to pass through the kidneys and out of the body but small enough to accumulate in the tissue of struggling transplanted organs, where they keep a lookout for rejection. (eurekalert.org)
European doctors attempted to save patients dying of renal failure by transplanting kidneys from various animals, including monkeys, pigs and goats. (history.com)
As an Organ Recovery Specialist at Gift of Life Michigan, Todd works with surgeons when the heart, liver, lungs or kidneys are removed from a generous donor, then escorts the gift or gifts to the transplant center and delivers the organ minutes before the patient receives a transplant. (giftoflifemichigan.org)
And 14 weeks post-surgery, all the transplanted kidneys were found to be functioning well. (healthday.com)
A new empirical model for allocating available kidneys to patients provides the potential for a system with greater fairness and longer life outcomes for those who receive transplants. (hbs.edu)
There are more than 103,000 people waiting for organ transplants in the United States, 88,000 of whom need kidneys. (ibtimes.com)
Last week, Chinese scientists published a paper showing they had succeeded in hybrid pig-human kidneys in pig embryos, an alternative approach that also has the potential to one day help address organ donation shortages. (ibtimes.com)

There's an old saying about xenotransplantation, as the field is known, says Joe Leventhal, a surgeon who heads the kidney transplant program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. (sciencenews.org)
All of the patients enrolled in the study - including 36 men and 19 women - underwent a kidney transplant at the Cleveland Clinic at some point between February and October 2021, during the second year of the pandemic. (healthday.com)
The National Kidney Transplant Service is located in Beaumont University Hospital where both living and deceased kidney transplants occur. (hse.ie)
Does race affect kidney transplant? (lespressobarmercurio.com)
It was the the fifth so-called xenotransplant performed by Montgomery, who also carried out the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant in September 2021. (ibtimes.com)

Soon after, anti-rejection drugs enabled patients to receive organs from non-identical donors. (history.com)
in return, their loved ones receive organs from other donors in the pool. (history.com)
Most adults can become organ donors. (networkofcare.org)
Organ donors save lives. (hse.ie)
Even though organs are not matched by race or ethnicity, and persons of various races regularly match one another, the chances of all individuals waiting for an organ transplant obtaining one are improved if there are a significant number of donors who come from their own racial or ethnic background. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
For this reason, it is of the utmost significance that a greater number of people in every community become registered as organ, eye, and tissue donors. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
Do organ donors need to be the same race? (lespressobarmercurio.com)
What percent of black people are organ donors? (lespressobarmercurio.com)
In spite of the fact that black people only make up 13 percent of the total population, they constitute around 16 percent of the population of dead donors. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
Most transplanted livers are from organ donors who have recently died. (cancer.gov)
Current efforts focus on pigs, which are thought to be ideal donors for humans because of their organ size, their rapid growth and large litters, and the fact they are already raised as a food source. (ibtimes.com)
In the United States, most liver transplants come from deceased donors, according to the ALF. (msdmanuals.com)

In 2021, doctors at NYU Langone Transplant Institute transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a person who was clinically brain-dead to test how the human immune system would respond to the organ. (sciencenews.org)
We have learned a great deal throughout these past two months of close observation and analysis, and there is great reason to be hopeful for the future," said Robert Montgomery, director of the New York University Langone Transplant Institute, who led the surgery in July. (ibtimes.com)

She was the newborn who received an emergency heart transplant in 1984. (anglicanjournal.com)
In the time since the US Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, organ allocation has been handled by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). (hbs.edu)
Early xenotransplantation research focused on harvesting organs from primates -- for example, a baboon heart was transplanted into a newborn known as "Baby Fae" in 1984, but she survived only 20 days. (ibtimes.com)

Spanish doctors conducted the world's first full face transplant on a man injured in a shooting accident. (history.com)
This May, doctors at the Cleveland Clinic conducted a complete face transplant on a 21-year-old gunshot victim. (medicaldaily.com)

But when it comes to life-or-death organs, like hearts and livers, transplant surgeons still must rely on human parts. (technologyreview.com)

Even with a record number of transplants in the U.S. for 2021, there are still more people who need lifesaving organs,' Wee noted, with only 20,000 kidney transplants performed each year and 90,000 patients in need. (healthday.com)

If they determine you are a good candidate for a transplant, you will be put on an organ donor waiting list. (networkofcare.org)
Schedule an appointment for an evaluation at the transplant center to find out if you're a good candidate for a transplant. (networkofcare.org)
If treatments can shrink a patient's tumors so that they fit within these criteria - commonly known as the Milan criteria - the guidelines say, that person may also be a suitable candidate for a transplant. (cancer.gov)

His doctor has hailed the operation as a "breakthrough surgery" that could help solve the organ shortage crisis. (sciencenews.org)
As transplants became less risky and more prevalent, the U.S. Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act to monitor ethical issues and address the country's organ shortage. (history.com)
Because of an organ shortage, hundreds or even thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. (hbs.edu)
Because of the organ shortage, you want a system that is transparent and perceived as fair by the candidates,' says Trichakis, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. (hbs.edu)
Their physiology resembles ours, and it has been the dream of many scientists to address the huge shortage in organs by somehow coming up with xenografts-the use of animals as sources of organs. (medscape.com)

Surgeons sever transplant hand. (wikipedia.org)
Surgeons looking for another source of organs at first looked to monkeys, because they're the animals most similar to us. (technologyreview.com)
Michael said that more than once, Todd has talked transplant surgeons through uncertainty over whether a donor's kidney was healthy enough to transplant. (giftoflifemichigan.org)
Todd can talk through the anatomy and tell the medical story of the organ, often helping surgeons decide the kidney is, indeed, healthy. (giftoflifemichigan.org)
US surgeons who transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a brain-dead patient announced Thursday they had ended their experiment after a record-breaking 61 days. (ibtimes.com)
In January 2022, surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical School carried out the world's first pig-to-human transplant on a living patient -- this time involving a heart. (ibtimes.com)

Three key developments have led some researchers to look again at the possibility of xeno-transplantation, not using baboon organs this time, but using pig organs and tissues. (anglicanjournal.com)
The organs referred to in this Act shall include tissues. (gov.tw)

There is also the risk that a patient could become infected with an animal disease transmitted through the transplanted organ or tissue. (anglicanjournal.com)
If you are interested in donating an organ, add your name to the Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry . (alberta.ca)
The tactic is aimed at priming a transplant recipient's immune system to better tolerate liver tissue from a living donor. (msdmanuals.com)

MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A liver transplant can give people a new lease on life, but at the cost of lifelong immune-suppressing medication and its risks. (msdmanuals.com)

Eduard Zirm, an Austrian ophthalmologist, performed the world's first corneal transplant, restoring the sight of a man who had been blinded in an accident. (history.com)

There are risks associated with organ rejection and the use of immunosuppressive drugs. (anglicanjournal.com)
Too often, it's only after a transplanted organ has sustained serious damage that a biopsy reveals the organ is in rejection. (eurekalert.org)
This is sensitive enough to possibly detect budding rejection before you see significant injury to the transplanted organ and that could help clinicians treat early to prevent damage," said Dr. Andrew Adams, co-principal investigator and an associate professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. (eurekalert.org)
The researchers plan to augment their new sensor to detect the other major cause of transplant rejection, attacks by antibodies, which are not living cells but proteins the body creates to neutralize foreign entities. (eurekalert.org)
This method could be adapted to tease out multiple problems like rejection, infection or injury to the transplanted organ," Adams said. (eurekalert.org)
You're also just taking a tiny fraction of the transplanted organ to determine what's going on with the whole organ, and you may miss rejection or misdiagnose it because the needle didn't hit the right spot. (eurekalert.org)
He found that skin from a different donor usually caused the procedure to fail, observing the immune response that his successors would come to recognize as transplant rejection. (history.com)

Donation greatly enhances and in many cases, saves the life of the person who receives the transplanted organ. (hse.ie)
A week before the transplant, the recipient receives an infusion of specific immune system cells from the donor -- ones that, in theory, could tone down any immune system attack on the new "foreign" liver. (msdmanuals.com)

One year after being diagnosed with renal failure, white people have a likelihood of receiving a transplant that is approximately four times higher than that of black people (22.7 percent and 6.0 percent, respectively). (lespressobarmercurio.com)

In 2019, black people made up 12.8% of the total population of the United States. (lespressobarmercurio.com)

Many people choose to donate organs upon their death. (networkofcare.org)
Making the decision to donate organs is the most important gift we can ever give. (hse.ie)

According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, the overall number of organ donations from deceased persons in 2016 was 9,971, with black people accounting for around 1,570 of those organs donated. (lespressobarmercurio.com)

This example is from the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), the USA umbrella organization for transplant centers. (wikipedia.org)

The use of animal organs for humans is an idea with a long, dramatic and often disappointing history ( SN: 11/4/95 ). (sciencenews.org)
Using animal organs as an alternative where the supply of human organs is too low could create a two-tier system where some people will get access to human organs, but others are eligible only for animal organs. (anglicanjournal.com)

Currently, homosexuality is prohibited in 34 African nations, but since 2006, South Africa has led the region in allowing same-sex married people to get married. (lu.se)

A team in South Korea says it's ready to try transplanting pig corneas into people, once it gets government approval. (technologyreview.com)

The assault on the patient's sense of identity may be far worse if they have received an animal organ. (anglicanjournal.com)
In order to resume patient's organ function or to save lives, this Act is enacted to permit physicians to remove organs either from a corpse or a living person. (gov.tw)
A few weeks ahead of a patient's planned transplant, the donor gave a blood sample, from which the researchers isolated monocytes, a type of white blood cell. (msdmanuals.com)

Concerns over the potential risk for recipient infection is nothing new in the world of organ transplantation, noted Dr. Brian Inouye, chief resident in the division of urology at Duke University in Durham, N.C. (healthday.com)
Today, we'll be discussing an article about tularemia infection being spread through organ transplants. (cdc.gov)

Survival statistics depend greatly on the age of donor, age of recipient, skill of the transplant center, compliance of the recipient, whether the organ came from a living or deceased donor and overall health of the recipient. (wikipedia.org)
Todd Hart saves lives by taking care of organs from the second they leave the donor until the moment they reach the recipient prepped for a lifesaving transplant. (giftoflifemichigan.org)
The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant-from either a living family member or a matching deceased donor-can have the recipient soon resuming regular life activities. (hbs.edu)
Each transplant recipient received an infusion of their donor's DCregs one week before the transplant surgery. (msdmanuals.com)

The transplant centre will do tests to see if you are a good candidate for an organ transplant. (alberta.ca)
Call the transplant centre where you choose to have your transplant. (alberta.ca)
To find a transplant centre near you, ask your doctor. (alberta.ca)
Your transplant centre will do all of the required tests. (alberta.ca)
During your evaluation, learn as much as you can about the transplant centre, and if support groups are available. (alberta.ca)
The transplant centre will notify you to let you know if you have been placed on the waiting list. (alberta.ca)
If you have questions about your list status, contact the transplant centre where you were evaluated. (alberta.ca)
More recently, in 2016 the National Pancreas Transplant Centre moved to St. Vincent's University Hospital. (hse.ie)

Immunosuppression has not permitted these organs to function well. (medscape.com)
Any strategy that decreases the amount of immunosuppression needed for transplant patients is important," said Dr. Chris Sonnenday , surgical director of the living-donor liver transplantation program at the University of Michigan. (msdmanuals.com)

A 57-year-old Maryland man has now survived just over three weeks with the transplanted heart of a genetically engineered pig. (sciencenews.org)

And] on the donor side - for families of these patients who died from COVID-19 - the donation and utilization of these lifesaving organs gives meaning to this senseless death that is brought about by this pandemic. (healthday.com)
If you have questions about organ donation, talk to your doctor, a trusted friend, or your faith leader. (networkofcare.org)
Most religions allow organ donation. (networkofcare.org)
The medical staff who take care of you are completely separate from the organ donation system. (networkofcare.org)
Only when a donor has died does a medical team contact the organ donation network to arrange a donation. (networkofcare.org)
Making friends and family aware of how you feel and your wishes on organ donation are the key steps towards saving lives. (hse.ie)
The national team of Donor Coordinators from Organ Donation Transplant Ireland manage the overall process of donation and retrieval in Ireland. (hse.ie)
There are specialist organ donation personnel based in the hospital groups nationally to assist with organ donation. (hse.ie)
They include six Organ Donation Nurse Managers in addition to six Clinical Leads in Organ Donation. (hse.ie)
Furthermore, they assist with the organ donation referrals and ensures each family is offered the option of considering organ donation and are supported with that decision. (hse.ie)
Organ donation and transplant surgery are well established in Ireland. (hse.ie)
Should the remark on the NHI Card be different from the expressive organ donation willingness during the clinical treatment process, the later shall prevail. (gov.tw)
The Administration, the household offices and the motor vehicle supervision offices shall work together and enquire the adults coming forward for applying for or replacing identity card, driver license or NHI Card about their willingness of organ donation. (gov.tw)

Are organ transplant candidates matched based on race or ethnicity? (lespressobarmercurio.com)
Even though people of various ethnicities frequently match one another and organ transplant candidates are not matched based on race or ethnicity, transplant matches formed within ethnic groupings can be even more compatible and effective than those made between people of different races. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
Other candidates for a liver transplant include people with serious liver diseases other than cancer, such as hepatitis B and C. Unfortunately, people who qualify for a liver transplant are competing for a limited supply of donor organs, Dr. Greten said. (cancer.gov)

Currently, this is done under a point system that takes into account a number of factors including the potential recipient's proximity to the available organ, blood type, life expectancy after a transplant, and various fairness criteria such as time waiting on the list. (hbs.edu)

A number of partial face transplants had already taken place around the world. (history.com)

He later worked with aviator Charles Lindbergh to invent a device for keeping organs viable outside the body, a precursor to the artificial heart. (history.com)
Once the organ or organs are surgically removed from the donor, Todd and his colleagues with similar roles flush the organ with special solutions and electrolytes that help keep it healthy and viable until transplant. (giftoflifemichigan.org)

For some, the very idea of xenotransplantation, the use of non-human organs for transplant into humans, is unacceptable. (anglicanjournal.com)

The first successful lung, pancreas and liver transplants took place. (history.com)
The National Liver Transplant Service has been running at St. Vincent's University Hospital since 1993. (hse.ie)
Under the Milan criteria, to get a liver transplant, a person with liver cancer can have only a single liver tumor no bigger than 5 cm in diameter or two to three tumors of 3 cm or less at the time of diagnosis. (cancer.gov)
For some people with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, a liver transplant is the only hope for a cure. (cancer.gov)
A new study provides the strongest evidence to date in support of US guidelines for determining which people with liver cancer are eligible for a liver transplant, the study's investigators said. (cancer.gov)
The US guidelines go beyond the strictest and most well-established criteria for a transplant, which largely focus on the extent of cancer that's present in the liver (the size and number of tumors) at the time a person is diagnosed. (cancer.gov)
In the study, 52% of people with HCC whose tumors shrank enough after treatment to meet the Milan criteria for a liver transplant were still alive 10 years after receiving a donated liver . (cancer.gov)
By comparison, people with HCC whose disease met the Milan criteria at the time of their diagnosis fared somewhat better: about 61% were still alive 10 years after liver transplant, the team reported July 20 in JAMA Surgery . (cancer.gov)
The new findings "provide solid data to examine [the] practice" of giving liver transplants to people with HCC that has been downstaged to meet the Milan criteria, wrote transplant surgeon Yuman Fong, M.D., of City of Hope Medical Center, in an editorial that accompanied the study . (cancer.gov)
We've always been nervous about the risk of the tumor coming back after transplant in these [downstaged] patients," said Dr. Kulik, a liver disease specialist who helps evaluate and manage patients before and after a transplant. (cancer.gov)
For more than two decades, decisions about which HCC patients are eligible for a liver transplant have been based on a small 1996 study in Italy. (cancer.gov)
That study showed that people with small but inoperable liver tumors did about as well after a liver transplant as people with liver diseases other than cancer, said Parissa Tabrizian, M.D., a surgeon at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the lead investigator on the new study. (cancer.gov)
The 1996 study, conducted at a single hospital in Milan, opened the door to liver transplants for people with HCC that is confined to the liver and "had a profound impact on the survival of liver cancer patients," Dr. Tabrizian said. (cancer.gov)
The immune system is complex and may be stimulated by other events besides just the transplanted organ," said Sonnenday, who is also a member of the American Liver Foundation's transplant work group. (msdmanuals.com)
That's possible because the liver is unique among human organs in that it can regenerate. (msdmanuals.com)
In the new study, Thomson and his colleagues wanted to see if, ahead of such a transplant, they could set up a friendlier immune system environment for the donor liver. (msdmanuals.com)

Your personal chances will depend on your health, the donor organ, and other things. (networkofcare.org)
Receiving a donor organ can be a long process. (networkofcare.org)
This blood test shows whether your body will immediately reject the donor organ. (alberta.ca)

On a farm in Bavaria, German researchers are using gene editing to create pigs that could provide organs to save thousands of lives. (technologyreview.com)
In China, researchers have transplanted insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells from gene-edited pigs into people with diabetes. (technologyreview.com)
And at Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers announced in October that they had used gene-edited pig skin as a temporary wound covering for a person with severe burns. (technologyreview.com)
In the outskirts of Munich, Germany, researchers at the Center for Innovative Medical Models Facility of Ludwig-Maximilians University are breeding genetically modified pigs, hoping to eventually use organs from their descendants for human transplants. (technologyreview.com)
Although happiness may vary between people based on personal experiences, the researchers found that life satisfaction - one of the factors that determines happiness - decreases after the age of nine and increases between the ages of 70 and 96. (medicaldaily.com)
Researchers found that people with better oral health - those having natural teeth and more frequent dental visits - had better chances of surviving head and neck cancers. (medicaldaily.com)
Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives. (hbs.edu)

We have gained invaluable insights learning that the genetically modified pig heart can function well within the human body while the immune system is adequately suppressed," transplant surgeon Muhammad Mohiuddin said in a statement released March 9 by the University of Maryland Medical Center, where the groundbreaking surgery was performed. (sciencenews.org)
The specialist transplant team perform both heart and lung transplantation surgery for patients from all over Ireland. (hse.ie)

When the body's immune system has just begun attacking cells of a transplanted organ, the new method's particles send a fluorescent signal into the urine. (eurekalert.org)
British immunologist Peter Medawar, who had studied immunosuppression's role in transplant failures, received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of acquired immune tolerance. (history.com)
You'll take medicines to prevent your immune system from rejecting the new organ. (networkofcare.org)
Everything after that was business as usual -- including the use of standard immune-suppressing medication after the transplant. (msdmanuals.com)

Will animal-to-human organ transplants overcome their complicated history? (sciencenews.org)
Centenary of first successful human transplant (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
Her body has been made a little less pig-like, with four genetic modifications that make her organs more likely to be accepted when transplanted into a human. (technologyreview.com)
Ukrainian doctor Yurii Voronoy transplanted the first human kidney, using an organ from a deceased donor. (history.com)
The law established a centralized registry for organ matching and placement while outlawing the sale of human organs. (history.com)
Salistick detects pregnancy by identifying a hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which is present in the body of a pregnant person. (medicaldaily.com)
Even if it were not-even if there are people who say, "I am not going to deal with a pig organ," there would be less pressure on the human cadaver side to get those organs. (medscape.com)

For example, a heart and lung transplant is possible. (networkofcare.org)
For example, you could have a heart transplant or a heart and lung transplant. (networkofcare.org)
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital hosts the National Heart and Lung Transplant Service . (hse.ie)

Dr. Kuehnert was previously with CDC and has done another podcast with me about infections in transplants. (cdc.gov)
Sarah Gregory] Okay, so, how common are infections transmitted by transplants? (cdc.gov)
Matthew Kuehnert] Well, in general, just looking in general for transplant-transmitted infections, unexpected events are very rare. (cdc.gov)

If you are interested in donating an organ, contact the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) at 1-888-894-6361 or go online at www.transplantliving.org to learn more and to find the nearest transplant center. (networkofcare.org)
Or you can contact the United Network for Organ Sharing by going online at www.transplantliving.org or calling 1-888-894-6361. (networkofcare.org)
This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and allocation decisions for each new organ that becomes available. (hbs.edu)

Even in a conventional transplant the barrier between self and non-self is challenged and patients often report a sense that their identity has been violated. (anglicanjournal.com)
In the new study, out of 55 patients who received such a kidney, none developed COVID-19 after transplant. (healthday.com)
Many patients who are in need of a transplant will find that a donor who comes from the same ethnic background as them will be the greatest possible match. (lespressobarmercurio.com)
The study, which included more than 2,600 patients, "is very solid because it has such a long follow-up time and [looked at] such a large number of people," said Tim Greten, M.D., head of the gastrointestinal malignancy section in NCI's Center for Cancer Research , who also was not involved in the study. (cancer.gov)
A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. (hbs.edu)

The incidence of HCC-the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide-has been rising in the United States and elsewhere, increasing the demand for transplants. (cancer.gov)

Since we eat pigs (120 million of them a year in the US alone), taking their organs seemed less morally fraught to many. (technologyreview.com)
Scientifically, their organs are roughly the right size, with similar anatomy, and pigs reach adulthood in about six months-much faster than primates. (technologyreview.com)
But a problem arose: pigs harbor viruses that might make the jump to people. (technologyreview.com)
I do think there is a fairly good chance, even though things have not worked well in the past, that we might see pigs used down the road as sources of organs. (medscape.com)
Although I don't think we should be cruel to the pigs, mistreat them, or stress them, the fact is that we do much better by pigs intended for transplant than we do factory-farming animals for dinner. (medscape.com)
We do a lot of things to pigs and other animals that really aren't good for their health or their emotional and psychological well-being, but for transplant purposes, you would have one happy pig. (medscape.com)
I think it's a close call, a grudging trade-off, but I'd make it, and at least I know that the pigs are well treated, because that's the way to get the best supply of organs. (medscape.com)

If you needed a transplant, would you accept an organ from an animal? (medscape.com)
can I accept an organ from such a source? (medscape.com)

Paediatric kidney transplants are carried out in Temple Street Children's University Hospital. (hse.ie)

More than one organ can be transplanted at one time. (networkofcare.org)
However, if the non-disease cause of death is not related to the organ or organs to be removed as determined by the attending physician, the organ/organs may still be removed by the prosecutor's and the next of kin's written consent if completion of the postmortem examination may result in missing the best time for removing the organ/organs. (gov.tw)

A patient may feel fine, and a biopsy may look deceptively clean when T cells have already begun attacking a transplanted organ. (eurekalert.org)
While these tales are considered apocryphal, by 800 B.C. Indian doctors had likely begun grafting skin-technically the largest organ-from one part of the body to another to repair wounds and burns. (history.com)

Editor's note: After surviving for two months with a transplanted pig heart, David Bennett died March 8. (sciencenews.org)
If all goes according to plan, the heart busily pumping inside a pig like this might one day beat instead inside a person. (technologyreview.com)

The French surgeon had developed methods for connecting blood vessels and conducted successful kidney transplants on dogs. (history.com)

The majority of persons in need of a bone marrow transplant are matched through the registry. (lespressobarmercurio.com)

The need for organs is very severe,' noted study author Dr. Alvin Wee, a urologist with the Cleveland Clinic's transplantation center. (healthday.com)

How successful are organ transplants? (networkofcare.org)
Transplants are more successful today than ever before. (networkofcare.org)

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