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The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership that sets nationalpolicies for organ allocation and screening, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, which operates the system, are formulating a policy for living-donor screening that would keep patients safe without compromising organ availability, said Connie L.
CDC Urges New HIV Testing for Donors Laura Landro 2011
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Ever since Dr. Peter Murray and his colleagues at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston performed the first successful living-donor kidney transplants in the 1950s, physicians and medical ethicists have debated -- often heatedly -- the merits of permitting the sale of organs.
Jacob M. Appel: Are We Ready for a Market in Fetal Organs? 2009
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The National Kidney Registry (whose mission is to increase living-donor transplants) acknowledges this risk but says the mortality rate is only three in 10,000, making it much safer than withstanding the first year of life.
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UPMC says Dr. Marsh, whom it has since named interim head of the transplant program, and Dr. Starzl now are working together on a paper about complication rates in living-donor transplants and will submit it to a scientific journal.
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This alone was a compelling reason for developing a potentially groundbreaking program in living-donor liver transplant, but clearly there are risks involved whenever new procedures are developed.
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In early 2007, he became suspicious of the low complication rates Dr. Marcos was reporting in adult living-donor liver transplants, say people familiar with the matter.
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Dr. Starzl, the pioneering surgeon for whom UPMC's transplant program is named, had long been wary of the safety of the living-donor procedure.
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Dr. Starzl reviewed the 121 transplants UPMC had done involving removal of the donor's right lobe, a typical procedure in adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplants.
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UPMC and Dr. Starzl compromised: Dr. Starzl would wait for the internal study, which would be reviewed by Pierre-Alain Clavien, a Zurich surgeon who pioneered a scale to measure complications in living-donor liver transplants.
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Adult living-donor liver transplants at UPMC have ground to a halt, although UPMC says it hasn't abandoned the procedure.
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