The largest U.S. multicenter study of living kidney transplant donor chains showed that 46 percent of recipients are minorities, a finding that allays previous fears that these groups would be disadvantaged by expansion of the donor pool through this type of exchange process...
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The Donor Risk Index, which assesses donor characteristics impacting liver transplantation outcomes, does not bear the same impact on outcomes on a small scale as is suggested from large-scale, national data. Rather, hepatitis C was shown to continue to be the major contributor to poor graft...
As the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa begins Wednesday in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, advocates from more than 10 African countries plan to "stage a demonstration" highlighting the need for funding for HIV/AIDS and other diseases, health-e reports (Thom, 5/5). Members of the AIDS and...
Two major transplant centers in Hong Kong and South Korea released results from their paired donor exchange programs for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). A single paired exchange, performed by the Hong Kong team under emergency circumstances, was a success. The Korean team reported 16...
I asked this in Pregnancy, but that place is dominated by females, and as sperm is something entirely within the male domain, I felt it was more appropriate to ask men.
I'm planning on using a sperm donor to have children (as I don't have any intention to be married or in a relationship- that...
...graft surgery? Initial injury in October 2008. Found out yesterday b/c of misdiagnoses that I completely blew my ACL. Need reconstructive surgery. Doctor said we need donor my size (6'1" /265lbs) and that body built, b/c my legs are so muscular...Said I would be 100% again (all I cared...
We were doing a tour at a new Hospital in Texas yesterday, and one of the residents there said he heard that the Doctor, who did the implantations on the Ocotomom is the donor..The Doctor..Hmmm...Does anyone Know anything about this?