Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compete for an organ with not only patients in her local area but liver patients all across the country as well. She might have been one of the sickest in Iowa, but in that larger population, she would have been considered relatively well off. Fortunately, Makenzie got her transplant last...
...could have gone to someone on the brink of death in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Varying patterns of supply and demand can create tenfold differences in waiting times. According to computer models cited by the government, these inefficiencies cost as many as 300 lives each year. Says John Fung, transplant director at the University of Pittsburgh: "There's no justification to keep the current system...
Sounds virtuous, but opponents of the rule say the equity argument is a smoke screen for a baser motive. They point out that transplants are down dramatically in big centers as smaller regional centers have proliferated. The University of Pittsburgh, for example, did 540 liver transplants in 1991, but only 200 last year. The cost per patient can be as high as $300,000. "You're talking millions and millions of dollars lost to those big transplant centers," says Iowa surgeon Maureen Martin...
...center's research takes a novel approach to treating the disease by seeking to transplant functional islet cells into patients without immunosuppressants. While these drugs prevent side effects such as rejection of the transplant, they can also seriously infringe upon the patients' everyday activities...
...research, it is important not to promise a cure when we don't know when or if it can be obtained," says Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, Center director, associate professor of research at HMS and transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital...