Sentences with phrase «transplants from deceased donors»

The disease commonly requires corneal transplant from a deceased donor.

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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.

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

Eventually a corneal transplant — most often from a deceased organ donor — is necessary.

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

Kidney dialysis is often used as a treatment, but the best long - term solution is transplant, usually from a recently - deceased donor.

And in another Penn project, researchers are studying the potential benefits for some patients to accept kidney transplants from deceased diabetic donors, rather than remaining on the organ transplant list for a «lower risk» transplant.

(That has been a challenge for efforts to treat type 1 diabetes with received transplants of β cells from deceased organ donors.)

To understand why these kidneys are not being used, with the goal of improving kidney utilization, reducing wait times, and providing transplants to more patients, a team led by Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH and S. Ali Husain, MD, MPH (Columbia University Medical Center) analyzed information on deceased donors from whom both kidneys were procured but only one was transplanted from 2000 - 2015.

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

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.

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

Upon receiving deceased donor kidneys from African Americans with two APOL1 renal - risk variants, transplant recipients experience earlier allograft failure.

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

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.

Furthermore, paired kidney transplants using organs from deceased or live donors, makes compelling sense from a cost perspective, compared to the alternative of the pain and discomfort of kidney dialysis treatment.