How the US organ transplant system works and what to ask to improve your chances
It's not always patience and luck that get patients off the organ transplant waiting list and into the operating room.
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Organ or Tissue Function: Graft Survival
Medical news and research articles
Single-gene edits fail to protect transplanted insulin-producing cells
In people with type 1 diabetes, the immune system mistakenly destroys the pancreatic beta cells responsible for producing insulin. Patients therefore require lifelong insulin therapy to regulate their blood glucose levels.
Aug 19, 2026
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Liver grafts feasible from hep C-positive donors after circulatory death
Liver grafts from hepatitis C virus-positive (HCV+) donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors have one-year patient and graft survival comparable with that of donation after brain death (DBD) liver grafts from donors ...
Sep 4, 2024
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Investigating organ donation practices following extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
With a global increase in the demand for organ transplants, the organ shortage crisis has taken a turn for the worse, as the supply of available organs remains insufficient to meet this growing need. A way to improve this ...
Jun 20, 2024
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Equitable opportunity for transplants: Experts provide disparity-sensitive measures for transplant centers
An Expert Insight, published in the journal Transplantation, highlights health equity, disparity and inequality in organ transplantation along the continuum of care and across organ types. The authors provide a guide to transplant ...
May 16, 2024
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How machine learning could aid compatibility in kidney transplantation
The United States saw a record 25,487 kidney transplants in 2021, according to the latest annual data report from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Five years ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Machine perfusion of kidneys protects against delayed graft function
For brain-dead organ donors, therapeutic hypothermia is inferior to machine perfusion of the kidneys for reducing delayed graft function after transplantation, according to a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the New ...
Feb 2, 2023
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Cannabis users could be candidates for heart transplants, according to new research from cardiologists
Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have concluded the medical and scientific establishment should expand and re-contextualize its understanding of cannabis use and heart transplantation, suggesting the ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Wait times for pediatric heart transplants longer during pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased waiting list times among pediatric patients awaiting a heart transplant (HT) in the United States, according to a research letter published online Oct. 7 in JAMA Network ...
Oct 16, 2022
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