Sentences with phrase «through organ transplants»

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As far as magic — I think many things we experience today would have been considered magic by those of the past — flying through the air in an airplane, transplanting organs from dying patients to living ones, sending pictures through the air, even just being able to capture and use electircity, etc., etc..

An organ donation campaigner and transplant recipient has paid tribute to a teenage girl who broke a UK record by saving eight lives through organ donation.

«Here's a person who has received a precious organ in a liver or a heart, after going through high risk transplant surgery and the mental anguish that goes along with that,» says Thakar.

Through a collaboration of two transplant centers in France and the United States, Carmen Lefaucheur, MD, PhD (Saint - Louis Hospital, in Paris) and his colleagues designed a study to determine the greatest risk for losing a transplanted organ based on the characteristics and function of donor - specific HLA antibodies.

Results of hand transplants show that this happens through the recipient's nerve tissue penetrating into the hand, he says, enabling them to build up control of the new organ.

«This proposal only serves to reward those locations that underutilize existing resources at the expense of those locations that have been successful in reducing their wait list through aggressive organ transplant techniques.»

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Before doctors came up with a drug regime to get around the deadly problem of organ rejection, surgeons tried such unsuccessful interventions as destroying patients» immune systems through massive doses of radiation and even transplanting a kidney encased in a plastic bag.

What has three eyes, breathes through gills, and may help scientists spot new ways to improve organ transplants?

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

To do this, scientists will examine part of the more than 30 tissue types available, which were collected through autopsies or organ and tissue transplant programs.

As the symptoms worsened through the spring, I was put on oxygen, and it soon became clear that I needed an organ transplant.