Posts Tagged ‘living donor’
Live liver donors could ease U.S. organ shortage crisis, adopted siblings show
Live liver donors could ease U.S. organ shortage JoNel Aleccia NBC News July 19, 2013 at 1:41 PM ET Transplant Thomas Dodds, 39, of Pittsburgh, received a live liver transplant in December 2012 from his adopted sister, Marj Kilcup, 40, of Puyallup, Wash. Still groggy from the 12-hour liver transplant surgery that saved his life,…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: A Risky Business
A Risky Business By John Lake, MD Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Director, Liver Transplantation Program, University of Minnesota Medical Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis In the U.S., there are currently more solid organ transplants performed using live donors than deceased donors (1). This trend represents the rapid…
Read MoreAdult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Emmet B. Keeffe, M.D. Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, California Liver transplantation is the accepted treatment for most acute and chronic liver diseases resulting in liver failure; however, the scarcity of cadaveric donors has become an insurmountable problem limiting the application of liver transplantation (1). To increase the donor supply,…
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