Showing posts with label liver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label liver. Show all posts
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Psycho-social criteria for being accepted as a transplant candidate

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 Not all decisions made in transplant centers are made on exclusively medical grounds.  Given the dire shortage of transplantable organs, ot...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Exceptional altruism: living organ donors who donate twice

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 Some living donors are moved to do it twice: first a kidney, and then later a liver, or the other way around. It appears that this is trend...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Kidney and liver donation: the movie trailer for Abundant

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  You can see the 1.5-minute trailer for the movie here , or here . ########## Earlier:  Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Abundant: a moving docu...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Nondirected liver donation in Canada--from the beginning

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The Ottawa Citizen has the story: The Gosling Effect: How one man (and his liver) forever changed Canadian health care. In 2005, Kevin Gosl...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Announces Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative.

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Here's a long awaited HRSA announcement, indicating their intent to modernize the deceased organ procurement and allocation system in th...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Paired liver exchange in India

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 Here's a report on 2-way liver exchanges conducted at Max Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Max Saket Hospital, New Delhi, India, ...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Deceased donor organ discards on weekends, in the the Annals of Transplantation

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 Hospital resources and physician incentives can be stressed on weekends, and there is historical evidence that organ discards are higher on...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

Nondirected living liver donation in the U.S.

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Nondirected kidney donation has been important in U.S. kidney transplants for some time.  Here's a report observing that nondirected liv...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Liver transplantation in the Middle East

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  Here's a chapter on transplantation in a book about liver cancer.  The countries in the Middle East that can do liver transplants can ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Increasing living donor liver transplantation: liver exchange and other options

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 Here's an early online paper from the journal Liver Transplantation. Can living donor liver transplant in the United States reach its p...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

A third life for a transplanted liver in Hong Kong

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The South China Morning Post has the story, of a transplanted liver that survived its recipient and was successfully transplanted into a se...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

A liver for a kidney?

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One consequence of the growth of kidney exchange is that there is more discussion of novel modes of exchange. Here's an article forthco...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Liver exchange: prospects and challenges

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Might liver exchange be attempted in the U.S.?  (Maybe at Penn?). Here's a forthcoming article that considers how the challenges would ...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

The politics (and incentives) of liver transplants

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From the LA Times:  California has long wait lists for liver transplants, but not for the reasons you think "About 7,000 people get ...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Quality control of transplant centers, and the choice of who to transplant (and which organs to accept)

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Transplant centers are regulated by measures such as their one-year graft-survival rate, so they feel pressure not to transplant patients, ...