The best way to achieve good survival statistics of course is to transplant the healthiest candidates.
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But the thorny bush took a lot of time and effort to transplant and grow.
"By the time I needed to transplant I was really, really unwell, " she said.
Surgeons have less than two hours to transplant organs before they are starved of oxygen and become unviable.
It can be daunting to transplant your life, so you are smart to take it step by step.
Even harder to transplant onto another location would be the requisite wartime mindset that characterizes detention operations at Guantanamo.
He said while scientific technology may make it possible to transplant animal organs into humans, significant safety concerns still exist.
The wolves already in Yellowstone have bred so successfully that plans to transplant other wolves into the area are on hold.
He employs a dozen gardeners to transplant endangered cacti from well sites.
Never in the past, they say, have we had the ability to transplant genes between widely different species - human genes into pigs for example.
The research team, led by synthetic biologist Omri Amirav-Drory and plant scientist Kyle Taylor, aims to transplant a bioluminescence gene into a small plant called Arabidopsis, a member of the mustard family.
At the University of Florida, in Gainesville, Douglas Anderson and Paul Reier are gearing up to transplant fetal spinal cord into patients whose own cords have been crushed, as happens in over two-thirds of all spinal injuries.
Joe Mantello, the director, has done what he could to transplant a dramatic arc into "I'll Eat You Last, " but Mr. Logan hasn't given him much to build on, and Ms. Midler's acting is too vocally unvaried to camouflage its absence.
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Sander Florman, director of the transplant program at Mount Sinai, said the hospital will test its donors as close to transplant as possible in accordance with the new recommendations, and educate donors "to be very careful about any risky behaviors and report them to us confidentially" before donating an organ.
The annual Return of the Chili Queens festival seems to transplant this whole end of town south of the border: there are stalls selling the full, mad range of Mexican wrestling masks, and the sombrero-topped mariachi troupes stationed outside each restaurant somehow succeed in exuding an air of sombre artistry.
What you couldn't do is volunteer to rush transplant organs to faraway hospitals, because if you did, you'd only arrive with coolers full of gazpacho.
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If livers could be preserved for longer it would allow teams to organise transplant surgery more effectively and to find the ideal recipient.
This is because the immune system's rejection response (which obviously did not evolve to frustrate transplant surgery) is actually there to attack tumours.
Menasche's initial trial of the method on ten patients showed tantalizing hints of efficacy, but because there was no control group, it is impossible to tell whether the improvements seen were due to the cell transplant or to the bypass surgery the patients also received.
Geneticist Elizabeth Worthey worked on the first-ever treatment of a patient based on DNA sequencing, helping doctors decide to give a bone marrow transplant to a 6-year-old boy who had suffered through more than a hundred operations.
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But VentrAssist's developers believe this device could provide a permanent alternative to heart transplant.
Scientists are developing a way to screen transplant patients at higher risk of rejecting their new organs.
Doctors and hospitals charge substantial sums of money to perform transplant surgery.
He hired Oz in 1986 and then, several years later, when he served as chairman of the surgical department at New York-Presbyterian, assigned him to his transplant team.
Because livers donated after cardiac death have sometimes been linked to worse outcomes after transplant compared to brain-death donations, the fact that more cardiac-death organs were discarded did not surprise the researchers.
New transplant programs, eager to qualify for Medicare reimbursement, work hard to bolster their transplant survival statistics, because Medicare looks for proof of success before counting a program as being eligible for reimbursement.
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The government said Novartis offered one pharmacist in Los Angeles a "bonus" rebate amounting to several hundred thousand dollars to induce the pharmacist to "shoulder the burden" of switching 700 to 1, 000 transplant patients to Myfortic.
Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) co-founder had used money and connections to get a transplant, the hospital stepped forward to say it had, in fact, performed the surgery.
After The New York Times explored the question of whether the billionaire Apple co-founder had used money and connections to get a transplant, the hospital stepped forward to say it had, in fact, performed the surgery.
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