Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Quotes about transplants (15 Quotes)
We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.
We get a lot of people who come from brighter places, transplants from California and Florida.
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
This approval is another example of the benefits of our agency's 'orphan' drugs program, which seeks to answer the medical needs of small groups of patients. The doctors who perform approximately 2,200 heart transplants in the U. S. each year will now have a new option for enhancing successful outcomes by preventing the rejection of the grafted organs.
Well, I know how the system works. I know that there's something called the MELD system, which is nationwide. There are zones as far as evaluation of need for liver transplants.
People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
It is a concentrated time of the year where organizations like ours have people out in the community doing donor drives and letting people know about how many are waiting for organ and tissue transplants.
More and more foreigners are coming to China for transplants because medical standards here are improving. It is a life-saving chance because if they were in the US, they might have to wait three or four years for a new liver.
We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes
We usually have in the area of 400 people on our waiting list, just for kidneys. We do an average of about 120 or 125 kidney transplants a year, so there are a lot more people waiting than actually get them.
The doctors who perform approximately 2,200 heart transplants in the U.S. each year will now have a new option for enhancing successful outcomes.
Some grateful transplants say that after the floods and fitful nights in the shelter, the least they can do is go to church once or twice. Them helping us out and all, they accepted me, ... I think I'd give them that there.
Each (market) caters to a little different buyer profile. Columbia is more of a local business. Bluffton is a good mix of locals and people moving in. Greenville, we are seeing Florida (transplants), some retirees, manufacturing (workers and executives).
Ultimately, if this holds true for the whole study, the HBS solution could be very beneficial for human kidneys and we can expect a higher success rate for kidney transplants, which could save cost and save lives.