Not exact matches
Cystic fibrosis survivor,
lung & kidney
transplant recipient, LOVER
of life and FOOD!
«The Effect
of Transplant Center Volume on Cost and Readmission in Medicare
Lung Transplant Recipients» was published online ahead
of print in the Annals
of the American Thoracic Society.
In addition to rendering
lungs unusable for
transplant, pulmonary edema also signals that the
lungs are not functioning properly post-
transplant and is a major cause
of illness and death among
lung transplant recipients.
The authors
of the paper recommend testing
lung transplant recipients who have hyperammonemia for Ureaplasma infection.
However, another possibility emerged when Bharat and colleagues found that the
lungs of one donor already contained the bacteria before the organs were
transplanted into the
recipient.
Transplant recipients who receive a kidney, heart, or
lung often develop an immune response to the foreign tissue in the form
of antibodies referred as donor - specific HLA antibodies.
To qualify under Major Organ
Transplant, the Insured Person must undergo a transplantation procedure as the
recipient of a heart,
lung, liver, kidney or bone marrow, and limited to these entities.