Sentences with phrase «available donor organs»

He also wants to expand the use of new technology such as normothermic perfusion that can rejuvenate donor organs by circulating warm, oxygenated solution through them prior to transplantation, improving their viability and greatly increasing the number of available donor organs.

In some cases, organ transplantation can be performed (e.g., kidney, heart, liver); however this option is typically limited by the shortage of available donor organs.

Not exact matches

County Clerk Elizabeth Larkin points out that applications to sign up as an organ donor are available at the County Clerk's Office and the DMV all year long.

Applications to sign up as an organ donor are available at the County Clerk's Office and the DMV all year long.

«From these findings, potentially more organs could be available for transplantation since we can push the limits with these «marginal donors»,» Niemann said.

The more you want to relax your considerations about how close a match you need with donors, you know, you open up the field of organs that are available for any particular patient, but you risk, of course, obviously very, very serious indeed lethal reactions in most of those cases.

«This is critical because the number of available deceased organ donors has been stagnant, but the demand has dramatically increased.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

The researchers note that these data alone do not capture all potential deceased organ donors in the U.S., as the current definition of an eligible death excludes potential donors over age 70, and those classified as a «donation after cardiac death» donor, both of which broaden the pool of available donors.

It is difficult to get spleen tissue from previously healthy donors, so the team needed to be on call, ready to process the organ whenever it became available.

Researchers suggest that this liver tissue could be used in place of donor organs during liver transplantation or during the bridge period until a suitable donor is available for patients with acute liver failure.

In this document, openly available for download, we provide an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

A White Paper, openly available for download, provides an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

At the root of the moral controversy of the phenomenon of transplant tourism — many who are desperately ill, travel to various destinations around the globe, in search of a healthy, compatible organ at a price — is the inescapable fact that there simply are not enough available organs in the UK for transplantation, either from cadaveric or live donors.

«There are always more patients waiting for deceased donors than there are available organs, but living donors can literally save lives by adding to the supply now,» Pratt says.