Sentences with phrase «available organs»

Yet with just 6,000 available organs for some 100,000 patients each year, chances of winning the liver lottery are slim.

The ample supply of available organs in the third world and excruciating long waiting lists in the first world make organ brokering a profitable occupation.

Although 17,000 people receive kidneys in the US each year, more than 400,000 are on the waiting list and rely on dialysis machines, so the shortage of available organs remains acute.

The shortage of available organs for transplantation, for example, leaves many patients on lengthy waiting lists for life - saving treatment.

In a context where people are dying every week for lack of available organs we can not afford to do this.»

Children in need of an organ transplant often wait longer than adults for available organs, as in many cases, they require organ donations from another child of a similar age or size.

The researchers analyzed the effects of a 2014 policy change that allows lower - quality kidneys — considered the bottom 15 percent of available organs — to be immediately offered more widely in a region without seeking patients only in the local area.

The researchers — and may others at Penn and across the country — hope that this study will be the first step toward unearthing an entirely new pool of available organs — initially for kidneys, and down the line for hearts, lungs, and livers.

«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..

Since liver transplantation remains the only chance of a cure for end - stage liver disease, improving transplant organ quality is critical for caring for these patients and will help close the gap between patient need and available organs.

«The promise of «wonder cures», or a reduction in the serious shortfall in available organs for transplantation, makes this imperative very understandable, and I for one would not advocate attempts to «ban» scientific developments of this sort, mostly because I do not believe that such a ban would ever be effective.

However, some are traveling overseas to have replacement surgery - in China's case many of the available organs are harvested from the 6,000 + prisoners who are executed in Chinese prisoners each year.

Because of the large number of people requiring lung transplants and the scarce supply of available organs, hospitals today often transplant only one lung.