signature: Valerie Goodwin Newswise — In the United States, approximately 30 to 40 percent of donor hearts are ineligible for transplant due to insufficient donor function. This reduces the number …
system
-
-
Ali Rogin: Kidneys topped the list of most needed organs in the United States. Currently, nearly 115,000 people are waiting for new organs. However, the talent shortage crisis is nothing …
-
Videos
Co-worker’s organ donation surprise caught on camera at KU Health System
by News Sourceby News SourceAlex Brown, who previously worked at FOX4, needs a new kidney and had been searching far and wide for a living donor.
-
Emotional effects
How our organ transplant system is failing people of color
by Jewel Mullenby Jewel MullenEditor’s note: Opinions expressed by authors do not necessarily reflect those of AAMC or its members. In the United States, Black people are 4 times more likely to Although they …
-
Videos
Josh’s Organ Donation Honor Walk at Willis-Knighton Medical System
by News Sourceby News SourceAn Honor Walk pays respect to a hero who has chosen to be an organ donor. On Wednesday, August 21, Willis-Knighton doctors, …
-
Heart Transplantation
Dutch man becomes world’s longest-surviving heart transplant patient | His immune system ‘attacked’ his new heart twice | Inschobert Jansen of the Netherlands has survived more than 39 years after receiving a heart transplant He became the world’s longest-lived heart transplant patient.
by Ashley Paulby Ashley PaulDutch man becomes world’s longest-surviving heart transplant patient | His immune system ‘attacked’ his new heart twice | Inschobert Jansen of the Netherlands has survived more than 39 years after …
-
Liver Transplantation
A death sentence: Native Americans have least access to liver transplant system
Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, …
-
Study design and population This population included living or deceased, transplanted or discarded kidneys enrolled between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2021, who underwent kidney biopsy prior to kidney …