Donation After Circulatory Death Offers Opportunity to Boost Organ Pool
(MedPage Today) -- While organ donations have traditionally come from dying patients who have a heartbeat but are considered brain dead, organs can also be harvested after circulatory death, when the heart and circulation reach a full stop.
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Source: MedPage Today Surgery - April 22, 2022 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
Consumer Health: Addressing concerns and dispelling myths about organ donation
April is National Donate Life Month. This annual observation raises awareness about donation, encourages people to register as donors and honors those who have saved lives through the gift of donation. Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for an organ transplant. And it's estimated 20 patients die every day in the U.S. because of the lack of donor organs. Have you considered becoming a donor? If you've never considered organ donation or delayed… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - April 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Surgeons Explore Use of COVID Donor Organs for Transplant Surgeons Explore Use of COVID Donor Organs for Transplant
Organ donation from dying donors with current or previous COVID-19 infection is likely safe, transplant teams from the US and Italy will report next month at the EDDMID meeting.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - March 24, 2022 Category: Surgery Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
She Died With Long Covid. Should Her Organs Have Been Donated?
Heidi Ferrer ’s family feared her organs were unsafe. The case points to gaps in protocols for organ donation amid the pandemic. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - November 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Transplants Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Organ Donation Kidneys Liver Hospitals Lungs Source Type: news
In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human
A kidney grown in a genetically altered pig functions normally, scientists reported. The procedure may open the door to a renewable source of desperately needed organs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Transplants Pigs Genetic Engineering Surgery and Surgeons Organ Donation New York University Langone Health Research Source Type: news
Scientists Successfully Attached a Pig Kidney to Human For the First Time
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack.
Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of a deceased recipient so they cou...
Source: TIME: Science - October 20, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Carla K. Johnson / AP Tags: Uncategorized Research wire Source Type: news
Scientists Successfully Attached a Pig Kidney to Human For the First Time
Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but among the hurdles: A sugar in pig cells, foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack.
Surgeons attached the pig kidney to a pair of large blood vessels outside the body of a deceased recipient so they cou...
Source: TIME: Health - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carla K. Johnson / AP Tags: Uncategorized Research wire Source Type: news
Surgeons successfully test pig kidney transplant in human patient
Researchers in US say trial on dead person is a ‘significant step’ toward animal-to-human organ transplantsSurgeons have attached a pig ’s kidney to a human and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have been the most recent research focus to address the organ shortage, but a sugar in their cells, which is foreign to the human body, causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack.Continue reading... (Source: Guard...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 20, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press Tags: Organ donation Health Animals Society World news US news Medical research Science Source Type: news
In a First, Surgeons Attached a Pig Kidney to a Human — and It Worked
A kidney grown in a genetically altered pig seemed to function normally, potentially a new source for desperately needed transplant organs. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-science Kidneys Transplants Pigs Genetic Engineering Surgery and Surgeons Organ Donation New York University Langone Health Research Source Type: news
Use of 10p statins in organ donation ‘could save thousands of lives’
Exclusive: NHS launching large trial of approach that could boost number of transplants and their success rateThousands of lives could be saved globally by giving patients a 10p statin before transplants, doctors have said, as the NHS launches the world ’s largest clinical trial in organ donors.The medical breakthrough is predicted to dramatically increase the supply of organs for transplant. Currently, demand for organs vastly exceeds the number available. Every year thousands of people die waiting for a transplant, including hundreds in Britain.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Organ donation Statins Medical research NHS Health Society Science UK news Source Type: news
UK to be world leader in organ donation and transplantation
Increasing organ donation consent rates and making the most of donated organs for transplant are the two key aims in a new 10-year organ donation strategy. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - June 7, 2021 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q & amp;A podcast: Mayo Clinic expands living liver donation program
More than 12,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a liver transplant, and 1 in 5 of those on the national waiting list will die or become too sick before an organ becomes available. Due to the shortage of available deceased donor organs, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is expanding its living liver donation [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Can One Simple Change Double Organ Donation?
Die in the USA, and your organs go to waste unless you ’ve opted in to the organ donation problem. But it doesn’t have to be this way—and in many countries, it isn’t.read more> (Source: Health WorldNet)
Source: Health WorldNet - November 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
