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11/23/2008
Doctor was pioneer in U.S. heart transplant (Seattle Times)
Adrian Kantrowitz, a doctor who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States and developed numerous medical devices that helped save thousands of heart patients, died Nov. 14 of complications from congestive heart failure in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90.
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11/22/2008
Budget airline 'jeopardized windpipe transplant' (CNN)
The successful transplant of a lab-grown windpipe almost did not happen when budget airline staff refused to allow the transportation of stem cells needed for the operation, UK newspapers reported Friday.
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11/23/2008
Bloomington benefit planned to ease expenses following kidney transplant (Bloomington Sun-Current)
A Bloomington family will receive help with a variety of expenses resulting from treatment for a rare medical condition that prompted a kidney transplant.
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11/21/2008
Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells (Washington Post)
LONDON -- Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used bot...
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11/22/2008
Transplant success raises stem-cell promise | Loveland Reporter-Herald (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
The transplant itself wasn’t groundbreaking. What was: the fact that the trachea consisted of tissue grown from the recipient’s own stem cells, which eliminated the need for drugs to keep her body from rejecting the transplant.
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11/22/2008
Kantrowitz, 90, did 1st US heart transplant (The Nashua Telegraph)
Adrian Kantrowitz, a doctor who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States and developed numerous medical devices that helped save thousands of heart patients, died Friday of complications from congestive heart failure at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. ... - By Patricia Sullivan The Washington Post
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11/22/2008
Local Boy to Receive Second Transplant (R News)
A small school in Wyoming County is rallying around a young boy who needs a major operation. Tanner Krist, 7, will undergo a second kidney transplant next month.
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11/21/2008
Cape Bretoner whose wife needs lung transplant says province should help out (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
HALIFAX, N.S. - Unless he gets some financial help, Ken MacKay says his savings will soon dry up, forcing his wife Marilyn - awaiting a double-lung transplant in Toronto - to return home to Cape Breton to die.
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11/22/2008
Louisdale man hopes legislation will help wife receive double-lung transplant (Cape Breton Post)
SYDNEY — A Louisdale man is hoping a bill introduced in the legislature Friday will give his wife a chance to receive the double-lung transplant she needs to live.
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11/20/2008
US girl lives four months without a heart awaiting transplant (AFP via Yahoo! News)
A 14-year old girl survived four months with an external pump in lieu of a heart while awaiting transplant surgery, hospital officials in Florida said Thursday.
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| Alamo Tissue Service, Ltd. - Provides allograft tissues to doctors and hospitals. Gives company details, accreditation, screening and testing, and standard information. Based in San Antonio, Texas.American Society of Transplant Surgeons - The coordination of efforts or formulation of programs by surgeons, physicians, scientists, agencies and health personnel to provide maximal efficiency and optimal benefit to recipients of transplants.Arizona Transplant Associates, PC - Doctors specializing in kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant and vascular surgery. Gives details about the surgeons, and patient information including forms, and insurance plans. Phoenix, Arizona.Bio Implant Services(BIS) Foundation - A non-profit organization, that mediates in the donation and allocation of human tissue for transplantation purposes.California Pacific Medical Center's Kidney & Pancreas Transplant - Provides information on kidney and pancreas transplant evaluation, living donation and surgery at California Pacific Medical Center and our Northern California outreach sites.CenterSpan - News, clinical information, and resources for transplantation professionals under the auspices of the American Society for Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center - Provide comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic care of surgical diseases involving transplantation of kidneys, livers, heart, heart/lung, and pancreas.CTS Collaborative Transplant Study - An international non-profit effort of more than 300 transplant centers in organ transplantation research. Online resources include access to CTS data, newsletters, publications, reagents and participants.Division of Transplantation Pathology - Provide up-to-date laboratory services with expertise in pathology, immunology and molecular biology. Actively involved in many transplantation related research projects.Donor Alliance, Inc. - Facilitates the recovery and donation of organs and tissues in Colorado and Wyoming.Emory University Hospital - Offering multi-organ transplantation in various combinations, from heart/lung to heart/kidney.Eurotransplant - Responsible for the mediation and allocation of organ donation procedures in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and Slovenia. Available in English or German.Iowa Donor Network (IDN) - A non-profit organization that operates as the primary contact for organ, tissue and eye donation services for the state of Iowa.LifeLink Foundation - Non-profit community service organization of Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico for organ and tissues transplantation.LifeNet - A non-profit organ procurement organization providing donation systems for heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, and other organs for transplant.Mary Lea Johnson Richards Transplant Center at NYU Hospitals Center - Offers liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation.Mayo Clinic Transplant Center - Offers comprehensive care to adults and children in need of heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, or blood or marrow transplantation.Medical College of Wisconsin - Specialists offering the latest news and information on organ transplants.New England Organ Bank - A not-for-profit agency. Mission is to recover, preserve, and distribute organs and tissues for transplant.The Nicholas Green Foundation - A non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of organ and tissue donation around the world.Oregon Health Sciences University Transplant Program - Active member of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Medicare and CHAMPUS certified for kidney, heart and liver transplantation.Organ and Tissue Donation Initiative - U.S. government organ and tissue donation awareness web site.Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank - The federally designated organ procurement organization serving Oregon, southern Washington and SW Idaho. Information on organ donation and brain death, and links to key local, regional and national sites.The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai, NY - The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute comprises world-renowned physicians, surgeons, and scientists in a wide variety of organ transplant and medical specialties.St. Vincent Medical Center - Multi-organ transplantation, cardiac care, ancillary health services, cancer research and treatment.TissueNet.Com - An open network of tissue banks in which hospitals and transplant professionals can obtain quality allograft tissue.The Transplant Center - Provides information for donors of all organs, with details of each program, physician profiles, and results of clinical research. University of Minnesota, Fairview, USA.Transplant Center Berlin-Steglitz, Germany - Kidney transplantation at UKBF Berlin, Germany. Complete English and German version. Medical and public information on transplantation and organ donation.Transplant Headquarters - Blog with scientific, political, and personal perspectives on organ transplantation.Transplant Pathology Internet Services - International collaboration and standardization of criteria in assessing histopathologic features of rejection.Transplant Week -- Your Online Transplant Newsletter - News and information from doctors and leading medical centers about latest developments in kidney, pancreas, liver, heart and lung transplantation. Updated daily.Transplantation - Provides access to the official journal of the Transplantation Society.UHN Toronto General Hospital - Offering a multi organ transplant services in Canada.University of Maryland Transplant Center - Home of the nation's largest kidney transplant program. A comprehensive center with programs for kidney, pancreas, simultaneous kidney-pancreas, liver, heart and lung transplantation.University of Nebraska Medical Center - Transplant programs, organ recovery and cooperative care services.UWHC OPO - Organ procurement organization of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics providing services to Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.
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