Organ Transplant Resources (2025)

30/07/2020

Donor sister must choose between siblings for kidney donation -
*But don't worry, all turned out well in the end and each sister received their kidney. Still makes for an interesting read.*

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source au.lifestyle.yahoo.com A sister has opened up about the heartbreaking decision she faced when she found out she was a donor match for both of her identical twin half-sisters who required kidney transplants. The 22-year-old shared her story on Reddit’s AI...

30/07/2020

>> "Farmer who had kidney transplant urges donor conversation"

Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.agriland.ie A part-time beef farmer from Co. Westmeath who has had a kidney transplant has urged people to have a conversation with their families about organ donation. Eddie Flood from Killucan is also the national treasurer of the Irish Kidney Associ...

28/07/2020

💚💚 "Veteran awaiting heart transplant sang to lift others" 💚💚

Armed with a contagious personality and room-filling baritone, Baylor passed much of his time at the VA by singing to anyone who listened. His showmanship lifted spirits, transforming the Vietnam-era Army combat engineer into a local celebrity.

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.blogs.va.gov Karl Baylor spent much of 2019 waiting to find out whether he’d live or die. His heart was failing. It was only a matter of time. Since February, Baylor, 62, has been staying at Salt Lake City’s George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center, one ...

28/07/2020

💚💚 "Woman who needs kidney transplant asks for donors via billboards." 💚💚

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.pal-item.com CLOSE Elizabeth Houk Mullins stands with a billboard that’s trying to find a kidney donor for her. (Photo: Supplied by Elizabeth Houk Mullins) RICHMOND, Ind. — Could you save my life? Elizabeth Houk Mullins asks motorists that question...

25/07/2020

Novel Tissue Preservation Method Improves Outcomes in Cartilage Transplant Procedures in the Knee – OrthoSpineNews

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source orthospinenews.com COLUMBIA, Mo. (July 8, 2020) ― A University of Missouri study on clinical outcomes after biologic knee restoration surgery found patients who received cartilage grafts that were stored using a novel graft preservation system had better...

23/07/2020

💚 💚 A doctor needed a kidney transplant. The savior was in his office. 💚 💚

Good news. Kouns was found to be a match, though doctors were not sure whether her kidney would go to Hines. In June, a few months into the transplant administrative process, she learned she had been selected as Hines’ donor.

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.cincinnati.com CLOSE Dr. Dirk HInes and his kidney donor, Heather Kouns, prepare for surgery on July 13, 2020. (Photo: Provided) Dr. Dirk Hines was the starting 280-pound center on the 1980s Indiana Hoosiers teams that beat Ohio State University in foo...

23/07/2020

UPMC Celebrates 500th Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant!

"Celebrating another milestone in its pioneering role in liver transplantation, UPMC has performed it’s 500th adult living-donor liver transplant (LDLT). UPMC is the national leader in living-donor liver transplants, performing more than any other medical center in the country."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source inside.upmc.com Share this oCelebrating another milestone in its pioneering role in liver transplantation, UPMC has performed it’s 500th adult living-donor liver transplant (LDLT). UPMC is the national leader in living-donor liver transplants, performing...

21/07/2020

GIFT OF LIFE: Father, son mark 30th anniversary of kidney transplant!

"A father and son, featured in the Winnipeg Sun in August 1990, are celebrating the 30th anniversary of father Chris Hauff donating one of his kidneys to his then 10-year-old son Sean by taking a hot air balloon ride early next month."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source winnipegsun.com A father and son, featured in the Winnipeg Sun in August 1990, are celebrating the 30th anniversary of father Chris Hauff donating one of his kidneys to his then 10-year-old son Sean by taking a hot air balloon ride early next month. “It....

17/07/2020

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"The masks are small, made especially to fit the faces of children, and each one was donated along with a small teddy bear. Mateo said he wanted to give pediatric transplant patients two gifts, one practical and one comforting."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source therivardreport.com Nine-year-old Mateo Alcorta blinked shyly behind his mask at the cameras, reporters, and doctors who gathered around him outside University Hospital on Friday to thank him for sewing and donating 80 masks to the hospital’s pediatric t...

16/07/2020

“Knowing my blood type, I knew my chances of receiving a heart sooner [rather] than later were slim,” he said.

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.nbc4i.com COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – It’s about a 5 kilometers roundtrip between Tyler Cummins’s home in the Short North and the Ross Heart Hospital at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. He took the trip in February 2019, driving the first leg by...

13/07/2020

"Branson was born with a rare liver condition and was always told that he would one day need a transplant."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.cnn.com But Monday brought the good news that the surgery to save his life is back on. Branson was born with a rare liver condition and was always told that he would one day need a transplant. Before the surgery was rescheduled, Branson told CNN he had...

09/07/2020

Expanding the Donor pool..

"A team at Duke University in December became the first in the United States to perform a donation after circulatory death heart transplant."

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08/07/2020

Pig-to-Human tissue transplant has been discussed for years and we just got a step closer..
"FDA for the first time has approved an experiment that involves temporarily transplanting pig tissue into humans, a move that experts say could lead to further developments in animal-to-human donations, Emily Mullin reports for Medium‘s “OneZero.”

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.advisory.com FDA for the first time has approved an experiment that involves temporarily transplanting pig tissue into humans, a move that experts say could lead to further developments in animal-to-human donations, Emily Mullin reports for Medium‘s ...

07/07/2020

"Doctors at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Denver previously canceled the surgery — along with all other organ transplants from living donors — amid concerns that such operations would leave patients and donors vulnerable to the coronavirus."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.nbcnews.com Zach Branson, a Colorado man whose lifesaving transplant was put on hold last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, has received a new liver, donated by his uncle. Doctors at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Denver previousl...

04/07/2020

What an amazing story of maybe the most rare transplant; a limb from a living donor!

"Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has successfully conducted the world’s first
limb transplant from a live donor, Central Military Hospital 108 announced on February
24."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source en.vietnamplus.vn Doctor Mai Hong Bang, Director of Military Central Hospital 108, checks the motor function of the patient after the transplant. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has successfully conducted the world’s first limb transplant from a ...

02/07/2020

"A year after his successful lung transplant, Edgardo Diaz, 30, found himself back in the hospital with COVID-19. Feverish and with failing kidneys, his condition quickly became critical."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source news.uchicago.edu A year after his successful lung transplant, Edgardo Diaz, 30, found himself back in the hospital with COVID-19. Feverish and with failing kidneys, his condition quickly became critical. Running out of time and options, Diaz’s doctors a...

02/07/2020

“I tried my hardest to build my strength up as quickly as I could to get out of there, so that I could be with him again and be with my family again,” Flores, who spent three weeks at the UCLA Medical Center following his operation, told NBC News. “There were moments where I was so tired that I didn’t think I was going to be able to keep going, but there’s so many reasons to keep fighting.”

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.nbcnews.com When Travis Flores, 29, received his third double-lung transplant in May, his partner, Clément, was only allowed to visit once, and they were separated by a glass barrier. “I tried my hardest to build my strength up as quickly as I could...

01/07/2020

"It was a reunion six months in the making as Joelle Cardoza embraced Marisol Cota. The last time they saw each other, Cota was hospitalized with heart failure."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source abc7.com LOMA LINDA, Calif. (KABC) — It was a reunion six months in the making as Joelle Cardoza embraced Marisol Cota. The last time they saw each other, Cota was hospitalized with heart failure. “When I first walked in, I knew where she was at. I cou...

30/06/2020

"It took several drafts to get the letters right. To capture her boy who, just a few short months before, had been so full of life, energy, and love. To distill him into the two dimensionality of words on paper."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.bicycling.com It took several drafts to get the letters right. To capture her boy who, just a few short months before, had been so full of life, energy, and love. To distill him into the two dimensionality of words on paper. Three weeks earlier, the th...

25/06/2020

"Gullickson, who turned 83 this month, received his life-saving surgery 29 years ago at the University of Minnesota’s Health Transplant Care facility — the same provider that cared for the Guinness record holder."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.startribune.com BISMARCK, N.D. — Two years ago, an Iowa man whom Guinness World Records had named the longest-surviving heart transplant patient died 34 years after receiving his new heart. Records like this cause friends of Richard Gullickson, of ru...

25/06/2020

"Oregon Health & Science University performed a heart transplant earlier this month, its second this year after a yearlong suspension of the program."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.thelundreport.org Oregon Health & Science University performed a heart transplant earlier this month, its second this year after a yearlong suspension of the program. The first operation was on a 68-year-old man the last week of March and the second in...

24/06/2020

“For patients with liver cancer whose tumors cannot be surgically removed due to prohibitive underlying liver dysfunction and portal hypertension, liver transplantation becomes their only option for a cure,” said Agopian. “But current imaging tests do not take into account the tumor biology that actually makes some patients better candidates than others.”

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.newswise.com Newswise — LOS ANGELES — Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $2.8 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to help develop a blood-based test to improve the selection and prioriti...

24/06/2020

“I didn’t even know that it was happening until my wife told me.”

It's a father/daughter match!

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.msn.com © Brady Ratzlaff/ Global News Dave and Caileen Mckeague take part in the Kidney walk every year. Dave is awaiting a new kidney and his donor is Caileen. Every spring, people from Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest...

22/06/2020

"For people who have received liver transplants, taking immunosuppressant medications to prevent rejection of the organ apparently does not increase the risk of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, MedPage Today reports."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.hepmag.com For people who have received liver transplants, taking immunosuppressant medications to prevent rejection of the organ apparently does not increase the risk of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, MedPage Today re...

20/06/2020

"When Discussing Kidney Transplant, The Numbers Really Matter."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.fiercehealthcare.com Frank Maddux, MD, FACPGlobal Chief Medical Officer, Member of the Management BoardFresenius Medical Care Over its long history, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published many important contributions to sc...

19/06/2020

"In 2014, after a string of misdiagnoses that lasted 18 months, McDevitt was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that often affects the lungs. In McDevitt, it was causing her heart to fail, which was even rarer."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source www.businessinsider.com Elaine McDevitt needed a heart transplant — and received one — amid the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. She entered the hospital on January 27 when there were only five COVID-19 cases in the US, and she left on April 6, whe...

19/06/2020

Daddy’s ‘magic cells.'

British Boy Oscar Saxelby-Lee, Has Been Cured of ‘Incurable’ Leukaemia With Experimental Treatment and Bone Marrow Transplant in Singapore, After UK Hospital Said There Was No Hope.

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source 7news.com.au A British boy has been cured of an ‘incurable’ leukaemia with experimental treatment in Singapore after a UK hospital told him there was nothing more they could do for him. And now he is ready to go home. Six-year-old Oscar Saxelby-Lee has...

18/06/2020

"I felt robbed of my childhood, robbed of opportunities to goof off, robbed of identity. The thieves — cystic fibrosis, anxiety, depression, deafness — didn’t seem to leave much for me to work with."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com In my last column, I described how nearly dying made me a better person. That might imply that I flipped a brain switch to become a more rad version of Brad overnight, but that’s not how it happened. During my lung transplant ...

17/06/2020

"My husband Trent had lived with congestive heart failure and diabetes for so long, I feared they’d take his life. I never imagined....

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source blogs.webmd.com By Irish Turner, as told to Stephanie Watson My husband Trent had lived with congestive heart failure and diabetes for so long, I feared they’d take his life. I never imagined that once he overcame these illnesses, he would nearly die fro...

16/06/2020

"As the coronavirus started to spread across the state in early March, hospitals canceled nonessential surgeries to make room for patients with COVID-19, but some life-saving operations like organ transplants couldn’t wait."

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Transplant News Sharing // News from Source ksltv.com MURRAY, Utah — A Utah man was given the gift of life by doctors at Intermountain Medical Center after they performed a life-saving liver transplant on him in the midst of the pandemic. As the coronavirus started to spread across the state in ea...

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