In addition to this October 27 newspaper column being a fun read about a married couple who now share the bond of a successful living donor kidney transplant, it contained a fact that struck me as very interesting:
Spouses make up about 15 percent of living donors for kidney transplants at Legacy Good Samaritan, according to [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The couple that transplants together, stays together!
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Donors in the news, Living organ donation, Statistics on October 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is it worth it? Preposterous transplant stories on popular TV dramas
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Surgeons we love, Transplant innovations, Transplantation ethics on October 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The online transplant community is all a-twitter over the season premiere of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy last week. The intense premiere featured a 12-person kidney donation chain, where the would-be donors of several transplant candidates all swapped their kidneys with each other to find organs that matched for all their recipients. That’s 12 transplants happening at once, in six [...]
Chopped and unchopped: The naked before and after photos
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged 2. Living organ donor blogs, Living organ donation, My story, Organ donation, Organ transplants on October 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Since the point of this blog is to share information and experiences about living donation, from time to time I’ll reprise some of my favorite posts from Chopped Liver, the blog I wrote while I was going through the experience of being a living liver donor in late 2005/early 2006. This particular entry, written about [...]
A beautiful story from Wisconsin
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s always nice to see journalists going deep on stories like this one, from Gannett Wisconsin Media, about the transplant surgery of retired firefighter Jon Sustachek: http://www.htrnews.com/article/20081019/MAN0101/810190371/1984/MAN04
The “defining death” debate: a good Economist article
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Transplantation ethics on October 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If all we ever went by were episodes of CSI Miami and Law & Order, our world’s definition of death would be an easy one, for sure. (The person was alive. They were killed. Now they’re dead.) But reality is more complex than that, and in truth, physicians, ethicists, politicians, religious leaders, and many others [...]
Living donors: 60 years old? It’s the new 50!
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged Living organ donation, Statistics, Transplant innovations on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is promising news from OPTN/UNOS about the success of kidney transplantations from living donors who are over the age of 55. A study of more than 20,000 kidney transplants has revealed that the survival rates of recipients who received living donor kidneys hardly varies at all when you compare whether the living donor was older than 55 [...]
Donantes vivientes – living donor resources “en español”
Posted in Health, Living organ donation, Organ donation, tagged 1. Living organ donor resources, en español, Statistics on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Can you imagine trying to go through the emotional and confusing experience of living donation for a loved one if all the information was provided to you only in Russian, Chinese, or Arabic? If you’re like me — a native English speaker from the American Midwest, perhaps not. But for many of the 44 million [...]
