Sander Florman, director of the transplant program at MountSinai, said thehospital 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 results are a breakthrough, " says Josep Llovet, a liver specialist with theHospital Clinic of Barcelona and theMountSinai School of Medicine in New York who helped organize and conduct the trial for Bayer.