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...lead author of the study, Andrew A. Herring, was a third-year student at the Medical School when he treated a 25-year-old uninsured day laborer suffering from cardiomyopathy. When the patient died from lack of a heart transplant, Herring was inspired to explore the role of insurance coverage in whether or not a patient can receive an organ...
...doctors emphasized that the discrepancy between organs received by the uninsured and the insured does not reflect the “values or intentions of the transplant community...
...windpipe was rebuilt using her own stem cells. The operation, performed on 30-year-old Claudia Castillo this past June, seeded a stripped-down segment of a donor's trachea with stem cells from Castillo's bone marrow, ensuring a perfect tissue match and reducing the likelihood of transplant rejection. The procedure has been championed as a milestone that could pave the way for radical improvements in organ transplants and the treatment of serious diseases...
...Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, performed the first human-heart transplant in the U.S., in 1967. The patient, an infant, received a heart from another child but lived only 6 1/2 hours after the surgery. Despite the loss, Kantrowitz's work ushered in a new era in approaches to heart illness...
...recipient of the transplant surgery, which took place in June, is Claudia Lorena Castillo Sánchez, a 30-year-old Colombian mother of two who lives in Barcelona. A cough she developed in 2004 was later diagnosed as tuberculosis, and by March of this year, her condition worsened to the point where one bronchus - the extension of the trachea that connects to the lung itself - was blocked. The only possible conventional treatment was to remove one of her lungs, a procedure that would have dramatically impaired her quality of life...