Sentences with phrase «deceased organ transplants»

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At Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, the wait for an organ from a deceased donor can be years, but «with this strategy you can get an offer within weeks,» she says.

Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.

Based on the results, researchers suggest two new metrics, which should be standardized, for measuring OPO performance: evaluating donation percentage — the percentage of possible deceased - donors who become actual donors — and tracking organs transplanted per possible donor.

«Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors improves organ function in kidney transplant: Finding could increase overall organ availability.»

«Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors.»

Eventually a corneal transplant — most often from a deceased organ donor — is necessary.

Slight changes to the system for allocating deceased - donor kidneys could result in higher rates of organ procurement and lead to more kidney transplants across the country, according to new research co-authored by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor.

And in another Penn project, researchers are studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased diabetic donors, rather than remaining on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.

(That has been a challenge for efforts to treat type 1 diabetes with received transplants of β cells from deceased organ donors.)

UC San Diego Health surgeons perform the region's first kidney transplants with organs from a deceased person.

Domino liver transplant procedures are aptly named for the sequential, one - after - the - other nature of the process in which a viable liver from a deceased donor is transplanted into the first recipient, and the first recipientâ $ ™ s organ is then transplanted into a second recipient.

A transplanted organ from a deceased donor typically needs weeks to «heal» and reduce the risk of rejection.

The first few weeks after the transplant are critical, especially when the organ donor is deceased, said Jordan Pober, the Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine and professor of immunobiology, pathology, and dermatology at Yale.

Samples will come from approximately 160 deceased donors identified through autopsy or organ and tissue transplant programs.

Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too long without blood or oxygen.

Furthermore, paired kidney transplants using organs from deceased or live donors, makes compelling sense from a cost perspective, compared to the alternative of the pain and discomfort of kidney dialysis treatment.