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Last surgeries underway in 12-person kidney transplant chain
Vallejo Times Herald Domino-like kidney swaps are becoming increasingly common when a donor’s kidney is incompatible with a relative or friend who needs one. Instead of waiting for doctors to harvest a kidney from a body, recipients and donors can sign on to use a software … |
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Generous kidney donor triggers 6 transplants
KEYT That donor’s kidney went to the next recipient, who was also paired with a donor, and so on. On Friday, the last donor will give a kidney to someone who has been biding time on one of those deceased donor lists to complete the chain. Such long-chain … |
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Generous kidney donor triggers 6 transplants
WDBJ7 That donor’s kidney went to the next recipient, who was also paired with a donor, and so on. On Friday, the last donor will give a kidney to someone who has been biding time on one of those deceased donor lists to complete the chain. Such long-chain … |
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1 kidney donor triggers 6 transplants
NBC2 News On Friday, the last donor will give a kidney to someone who has been biding time on one of those deceased donor lists to complete the chain. Such long-chain transplanting is rare. It’s been done before, California Pacific Medical Center said in a … |
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1 kidney donor triggers 6 transplants, thanks to big data and generosity
CNN That donor’s kidney went to the next recipient, who was also paired with a donor, and so on. On Friday, the last donor will give a kidney to someone who has been biding time on one of those deceased donor lists to complete the chain. Such long-chain … Kidney donation triggers transplant chain in San FranciscoArizona Daily Star Chain of kidney transplants begins at San Francisco hospitalKTVN Altruistic donor starts large West Coast single-center kidney paired donation …IT News Online |
Kidney donation sets off chain of transplants at SF hospitalJournal TimesIn this case, six donors are instead giving kidneys to strangers found through a software matching program developed by 59-year-old David Jacobs, a kidney recipient whose brother …
Kidney donation to a stranger sets off chain of transplants at SF hospitalMinneapolis Star TribuneIn this case, six donors are instead giving kidneys to strangers found through a software matching program developed by 59-year-old David Jacobs, a kidney…
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Sacramento woman’s donation to Benicia man sets off organ swap
News & Observer In this case, six donors are instead giving kidneys to strangers found through a software matching program developed by 59-year-old David Jacobs, a kidney recipient whose brother died of kidney failure. Its algorithmic program finds potential matches … |
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Altruistic donor starts large West Coast single-center kidney paired donation …
IT News Online “Being a kidney transplant patient myself, it’s extremely gratifying to know my software helped make this six-way kidney paired donation possible,” Jacobs said. “I understand first-hand the despair of waiting for a deceased donor organ and how life … |
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A 114-year-old college that’s closing its doors may have to give more than $50 …
Business Insider “My guess is that in those cases they would have to go back to donors, and, if the donors are deceased, to relatives of the donors and get permission from them to use the funds to aid in the closure.” People who give money to colleges presume those … |