Sentences with phrase «from deceased donors»

No wonder that those needing a kidney vastly exceed the number of kidneys available from deceased donors.

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

In another study, Olivier Detry, MD, PhD, of the University of Liège, in Belgium, and his colleagues revealed excellent results from liver transplants from deceased donors who were older than what is usually recommended.

Linsdey received the organ from a deceased donor in a nine - hour operation in late February.

Ten patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were infected with the disease.

Yet despite very long waiting times for transplant, hundreds of otherwise good kidneys from deceased donors infected with Hepatitis C are discarded each year.

Transplants including critical periorbital tissues — such as the eyelids, tear ducts, and associated facial nerve branches — were obtained from deceased donors.

While most kidneys from deceased donors function well, studies have shown that a kidney from a living donor, either a blood relative or an unrelated person, provides the greatest chance for long - term success.

Developed for kidneys by colleagues at Cambridge University, the process involves pumping warm, oxygenated red blood cells through an organ removed from a deceased donor to repair any damage to the organ before implanting it in the recipient.

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.

The only current treatment for end - stage liver disease is a liver transplant, and the number of livers available from deceased donors is limited.

The disease commonly requires corneal transplant from a deceased donor.

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

A growing number of kidneys from deceased donors are discarded, but a new study suggests that most of these could be successfully transplanted.

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.

Although it is possible to treat type 1 diabetes with pancreas transplants from deceased donors, the demand for transplants far exceeds the availability of donated organs.

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.

The woman who received the very first uterus transplant in the U.S. (from a deceased donor), last February at the Cleveland Clinic, had to have the organ removed less than two weeks later due to a common infection.

In February, the Cleveland Clinic performed the first uterus transplant in the U.S.; the organ was from a deceased donor.