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miocean
Member Username: Miocean
Post Number: 165 Registered: 07-2010
| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 - 08:42 am: |
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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 |
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Frank J.
Forum Leader Username: Txaggie86
Post Number: 287 Registered: 03-2009
| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2012 - 12:57 pm: |
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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 |
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ono
Member Username: Ono
Post Number: 165 Registered: 06-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 07:50 pm: |
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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
Member Username: Suri
Post Number: 5 Registered: 04-2012
| Posted on Monday, April 16, 2012 - 06:03 pm: |
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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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