The Week Magazine |
The case for compensating kidney donors
The Week Magazine The European model of “presumed consent,” wherein a person’s organs are taken posthumously unless an individual has specifically forbidden their retrieval, is not a potent solution as less than one percent of deceased individuals are medically eligible … |
The Courier-Journal |
Benefits of being a living organ donor
The Courier-Journal Benefits to live donation. ✓ Kidneys from living donors last twice as long those from deceased donors. ✓ Wait time for a deceased donor kidney can be years. ✓ Recipients have more options to seek kidneys from people with compatible blood types, instead … |
Dayton Daily NewsRemove financial barriers to organ donation, experts sayReutersThe 1984 National Organ Transplant Act made donor compensation illegal. But other incentives may be effective without interfering with inherent altruism, the authors say. F…
CARE Hospitals Visakhapatnam performs deceased donor (cadaver) liver …Financial ExpressThe complex procedure comprised excision of the diseased and damaged liver and transplanting the healthy liver from the brain dead donor. After the surgical proced…
NephrologyNews.comStudy shows which patients benefit most from kidneys from older deceased donorsNephrologyNews.comFor patients in need of a transplant who are at least 60 years old, rapid transplantation from an older deceased donor is superior to del…
Monthly Prescribing ReferenceKidneys From Dead Older Donors May Help SeniorsWebMDEven though more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, most kidneys from deceased donors 65 and older are discarded, the study auth…
AsiaOne |
What to Do with Kidneys From Older Deceased Donors?
Newswise (press release) Newswise — Washington, DC (March 26, 2015) — A new study highlights the best way to use kidneys from older deceased donors, providing the most benefits to patients and addressing the worsening organ shortage. The study’s findings, which appear in an … Kidneys From Dead Older Donors May Help Seniors, Study Finds Friend to kidney patients |
News-Medical.netTesting APOL1 gene variants in deceased kidney donors may improve …News-Medical.netKidney transplantation outcomes from deceased African-American donors may improve through rapid testing for apolipoprotein L1 gene (APOL1) renal risk v…
NephrologyNews.comStudy predicts little increase in number of potential organ donors over next …NephrologyNews.comThe number of potential deceased organ donors in the United States is not expected to increase greatly over the next five years, accordi…
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Brookline native searching for kidney donor through all channels
Wicked Local Falmouth Borenstein and his wife, Lilly Pelzman, 63, who also graduated from BHS, are also on a five-year waiting list for a deceased donor. The couple has been to four hospitals, all telling them that “this is the shorter waiting time”. Pelzman said that New … |