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miocean
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Username: Miocean

Post Number: 165
Registered: 07-2010
Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 - 08:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

This article is about living organ donations (liver) and a complicated, sad case but may provide information and insight to living donors or those needing transplants:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/08/health/cohen-donor-safety/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

miocean
Diffuse Scleroderma
Kidney Transplant March 11, 2010
St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
Frank J.
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Username: Txaggie86

Post Number: 287
Registered: 03-2009
Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

This is a very sad story. If the hospital had been more diligent, the donor would have lived.
Frank Jones
Liver Transplants at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA April 2005 and April 2006.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
ono
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Username: Ono

Post Number: 165
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 07:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I had my live liver transplant in Taiwan. The hospital there had done over 600 live liver transplants and claim NO donor mortalities and few complications.
They do a lot of pretesting before donor and recipient are approved but if they van do it there, we can here.
It's such a shame that procedures aren't shared world wide.
suri
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Username: Suri

Post Number: 5
Registered: 04-2012
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2012 - 06:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

my mum and i had the surgery in bucharest, romania. prior to the transplant, we spent nearly 2 months being tested -- with some of the tests being done twice or even more, to ensure the results are okay. we both had a full cardio exam (ekg and echocardiography by a cardiologist), and my mum had it done again two days before the surgery. all the doctors were very professional, before and after the surgery. and they've never lost a donor since they started doing living donor liver transplants (in 2000).

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