Sentences with phrase «organ recipients»

In many cases, organ recipients experience feelings of guilt — they have survived through the benefit of someone else's organ, someone else's death.

Researchers compared the blood samples of organ recipients a year after a kidney transplant, liver transplant or kidney - liver transplant.

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The method could prolong survival for organ recipients and reduce the death toll among the tens of thousands of patients globally who need donor livers today.

The UDDA has, in construct and in code, respected both dying patient and potential organ recipient.

Future organ recipients certainly hope that assessment of Starzl is right.

What it is: The drug is taken by organ recipients to inhibit rejection, allowing patients to take lower doses of cyclosporin, a more toxic immune suppressant.

In many cases, organ recipients experience feelings of guilt — they have survived through the benefit of someone else's organ, someone...

I always thought I was immuno - suppressed while pregnant (much like drugs do to organ recipients) to keep my body from rejecting the fetal tissue, but no?

Every year, about 500 New York residents on the organ recipient waiting list die because of a statewide organ shortage, according to data maintained by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a database of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The team intends to transplant patients, determine whether they have contracted HCV, and then work to treat — and hopefully cure — the virus in these organ recipients.

Approximately one half of all organ recipients experience antibody - mediated organ rejection within ten years of the transplantation.

As part of a clinical trial conducted at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, Ildstad and colleagues extracted bone marrow - producing cells from kidney donors and then removed cells likely to cause GVHD while expanding the number of «facilitating cells» that make an organ recipient's system more receptive.

In most cases of domino liver transplants, one of the donated livers is transplanted from a patient with another type of disorder that does not affect the organ recipient.

You could be an immunologist and histocompatability scientist and check that organ donors and organ recipients are a match for transplant.