Sentences with phrase «paired organ transplantation»
The announcement last October that two couples — Peter and Roma Horrell and an anonymous couple from Lothian — had participated in the first paired organ transplantation in the UK, heralds a welcome possible method for desperately ill patients receiving an organ in a transplantation system where demand for organs greatly exceeds the supply.
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And once donation from strangers became reasonable to contemplate, it also became possible to move beyond living donors» gifts of paired vital organs (such as a kidney) to transplantation of unpaired vital organs (such as the heart or liver) from cadaver donors.
The introduction and initial success of the first paired transplant is not a panacea to the problem of a massive shortage of organs for transplantation, but it is in keeping with the UK tradition of altruistic donation.