‘Significant’ Problems at Hackensack University’s Kidney Transplant Program
The federal government found 28 “significant” deficiencies in the kidney transplant program at Hackensack University Medical Center before the hospital agreed to suspend it temporarily next month for...
View ArticleLiving Kidney Donor Dies in NY
Montefiore live-donor transplant program shut down after donor mom dies during surgery The woman, the mother of a two year old, bled to death when her aorta was cut or ruptured during the...
View ArticleKidney Donor Dies Because Surgeons Don’t Read Warning Letter
And yet another death from the Hemolock clip: Kidney-donor deaths linked to surgical clips raise issues of alerts, warnings Surgeons at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, rushed Florinda...
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Primum Non Nocere – by Lorraine Hawks
I am the Lahey live donor liver widow. Those of us left behind by the senseless death of a live liver or kidney donor; our voices must be heard. The dark side of organ donation, be it live or...
View ArticleIf Every Transplant Center Says It, It Must Be True
Subtitle: Or it isn’t, but they say it anyway… Recently, Google Alerts dropped the University of Wisconsin Medical Center’s “10 Reasons Why You Should Be a Living Kidney Donor” in my lap (or inbox)....
View ArticleJust a Reminder for all those prospective living donors out there…
A living donor is not required to have their surgery at the same transplant center as the recipient. Every living donor has the right to choose their own surgeon and transplant center. Donated organs...
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Kidney Paired Donation Workgroup Recommendation (Updated)
UPDATED March 8: See below the graphic. Here’s the final recommendation from the Kidney Paired Donation Work Group recommendation as presented at the ACOT meeting today: Update March 8, 2013:...
View ArticleLiving Liver Donor Deaths are “Inevitable”
According to transplant surgeons and bioethicists at The Cleveland Clinic, it is. The first line of Miller, et al’s newly published study, “Preparing for the Inevitable: the death of a living liver...
View ArticleHow Journals Portray Organ Donation
This refers to deceased organ donation, but based on my copious files and two short analyses I’ve done of articles arriving via google alerts, this is applicable to living donation as well. In...
View ArticleLatest from OPTN’s Living Donor Committee
OPTN’s Living Donor sent their latest report to OPTN’s Board of Directors a couple of weeks ago. The following are noteworthy highlights: 1. After CMS (Medicare) published the Final Rule in 2007,...
View ArticleLiving Liver Donor Evaluation Consent Forms Deficient
We contacted each of the 41 US centers that performed at least one living donor liver transplant in 2011. Twenty-six centers shared their consent form for living donor evaluation (response rate: 70%)....
View ArticleWeill Cornell Medical College’s Living Kidney Donor Resources, part i
Google Alerts dropped Cornell’s website into my inbox recently (which means they must’ve updated it). First is this, the typical pro-living donor propaganda we’ve come to expect, which includes: The...
View ArticleUniversity of Toledo Settles Suit Over Thrown Away Kidney
Well, of course they did. A family that sued after a nurse tossed a healthy kidney in the trash during a transplant has settled its lawsuit against an Ohio hospital for $650,000. In a settlement...
View ArticleLiving Donor Dies at Erie County Medical Center
Here are the facts: ECMC is suspending its living kidney transplant program following the death of a donor from an illegal drug overdose. Doctors successfully transplanted the organ to a family member...
View ArticleHow Not to Define Safety, Transplant Industry
The focus of this Egyptian transplant center study was the 8 living kidney donors who experienced kidney failure, as opposed to their overall 2000 LKDs. In the discussion section, however, the authors...
View ArticleHow to Eliminate Some Living Donation Related Costs
Note: Typical with most recently published studies, I’m only able to see the abstract for this one. Authors collected info from 194 living kidney donors enrolled in the KDOC study. “Most LKDs (n=187,...
View ArticleMore on Kidney Donor Jamie Donaldson’s Death
On April 16, 2015, Jamie Donaldson died while donating a kidney to his father, Frank Donaldson, at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Florida. Per federal guidelines, Gulf Coast’s transplant...
View ArticleOPTN Standards For Transplant Surgeons Are Too Low
This excerpt pretty much says it all: The learning curve [of a surgeon specializing in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy], defined by decreased operating time, averaged 35 cases. Improved intra-operative,...
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