Sentences with phrase «death after transplant»

As we are now able to focus our efforts on improving the overall patient experience and reducing the risk of relapse, the leading cause of death after transplant, we have greatly improved long - term survival outcomes for patients who before might not have had another treatment option.»

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However, the pace of scientific development is fast and it may be that soon we will be able to change our views on this, and again allow our organs to be transplanted after our death.

It was, after all, in the immediate aftermath of the first successful human heart transplant that the medical profession recognized the need to establish criteria to pronounce «brain death,» to be used in certain cases in place of traditional «cardiorespiratory» criteria for death.

Dener, after waiting for several years and close to death, got a liver transplant a few years ago and has since tirelessly advocated for organ transplants.

Currently, infections after transplant are common and may be severe, causing death in a substantial number of people.

Donor stem cells are transplanted to a recipient, but not without the risk of developing GVHD, a life - threatening complication and major cause of death after SCT.

The number of organs donated as a result of overdose death has increased 24-fold since 2000 and transplants with those organs have similar outcomes to transplants with organs donated after trauma or natural death.

Kalin suggests that the couple internalised the homophobia and anti-Semitism around them into a pathological self - loathing but he doesn't show that process: his heroes seem simply born to be bad (in a spooky Hands of Orlac epilogue, Leopold's eyes are successfully transplanted to a blind woman after his death).

Although Vanguard pioneered index investing and still manages some of the largest and best passive funds, the company has evolved since Bogle stepped down as chairman in 1996, after he received a heart transplant and appeared close to death.