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 Every year more than a thousand citizens wait for an organ to stay alive. Every Belgian is basically a donor, unless he or she has officially refused during his or her life. In practice, however, 12 to 13 percent of families in Belgium refuse to donate an organ of their loved one due to lack of information about the will of the deceased. Belgian citizens who register in his or her municipality and declares himself / herself as a candidate donor can avoid putting their families and surviving relatives through this difficult decision making experience.
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CNN
An Atlanta woman became the first living HIV-positive kidney donor in the world on March 25 when surgeons at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore transferred her organ to a recipient who is also HIV-positive, according to a statement from the medical center. Both the donor and the recipient, who wishes to remain anonymous, are doing well.
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The New York Times
The question might seem indelicate. But transplant centers find it is necessary these days to know the answer even before they place a patient on the list for an organ transplant.
“How will you pay for the anti-rejection drugs?”
These are patients with insurance — they need it to pay for the transplant itself — so it might seem obvious that their insurer would pay. But if, as often happens, the patient gets an organ transplant with private insurance and later enrolls in Medicare, she may be in for a shock.
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Bloomberg Law
The first time Paul Corby got an organ transplant evaluation, his mother Karen Corby could tell the doctor had already decided not to put him on the donor wait list.
Paul is autistic and carries a Princess Peach doll for comfort, and the doctor asked why he was carrying the doll, she said. When the doctor asked Paul to name the 19 medications he was already taking, he couldn’t.
When Karen asked for a written copy of the doctor’s decision denying Paul a recommendation for a heart transplant, she saw the reason in black ink—it was his autism.
Disability rights activists have been working since the mid-1990s to stop doctors from denying organ transplants to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their efforts could finally be paying off.
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Transplantation
Organ transplantation has become the treatment of choice for end-stage organ disease, and as outcomes of transplantation have improved, the number of patients with end-stage organ failure listed for transplantation has increased dramatically over the years. As a result, organ shortage has become one of the greatest challenges facing the field of organ transplantation today.
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University of Maryland via Newswise
A University of Maryland Medicine team performed a rare bilateral lung-heart transplant on a 12-year-old girl. The surgery was done at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.
Lindsey Le is a normal tween from Severn, MD, who enjoys texting with friends and learning about science. But for the last six months, she has been the focus of intense medical treatment and care involving more than 20 physician specialists and dozens of healthcare professionals, which culminated in this unusual, lifesaving procedure.
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Leafly
Despite the incredible need for donor organs, recipients and donors who are also cannabis consumers have traditionally been turned away, but new research and state legislatures are changing that.
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The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Chronic lung allograft dysfunction is the single most important factor limiting long-term survival after lung transplantation. Azithromycin has been shown to improve CLAD-free and long-term survival, yet the possible impact on early lung allograft function is unclear.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Solid organ transplant candidates may not be immune against potentially vaccine‐preventable diseases because of insufficient immunizations and/or limited vaccine responses. We evaluated the impact on vaccine immunity at transplant of a systematic vaccinology workup.
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