Sentences with phrase «cadaver donors»

If researchers could reduce the loss of cells, they could one day treat two or even three times as many patients from the limited number of cadaver donors available, García noted.

And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.

In the past, this meant a recipient had to wait in line for years, dependent on dialysis, until a kidney from a cadaver donor became available.

GARY, IND. — A 17 - year - old Indiana high school student stands among the group of medical students, doctors and nurses working with a scalpel on a cadaver donor.

Not exact matches

Dr David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's College, London, has pointed out that he does not accept that brain death can be assumed for any cadaver with a beating - heart, and challenges the ethical acceptability of the use of any such cadaver for donor purposes [13].

The document asks the public for its views on the use of eggs taken from fetuses, cadavers or living women donors, either to treat infertile couples, or to carry out basic research.

They started by removing valves from donor cadavers.