Gangrene Caused Death of Healthy Liver Donor
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NEW YORK  - Over two years ago, the case of  a man who died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York after  donating a portion of his liver to his brother gained a lot of  media attention. According to a report published this month,  fulminant gas gangrene of the stomach was the cause of death.
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Hepatitis B has been referred to as the silent killer within the Asian/Pacific Islander community. It&#39;s an asymptomatic disease that often leads to liver cancer.
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Transplanting pig organs into humans may be much safer than previously thought, a study suggests.
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Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two people in Britain became infected with the human version of mad cow disease. They say the cases appears to confirm that ...
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A potentially fatal liver virus could be spread in sweat during contact sports, say Turkish researchers.
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A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to ...
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A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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A haemophiliac exposed to contaminated blood products over 20 years ago gives evidence at an independent inquiry.
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After a long fight with a degenerative disease, Ruben Navarro appeared close to death. So the hospital caring for him alerted the local transplant network, which rushed a team to the medical center to try to salvage the 25-year-old's organs.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 5 -- The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan on Monday, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.
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MONTROSE - Montrose County Coroner Mark Young agreed to release a local man&#39;s body for organ donation before later ruling he was legally alive when his heart, liver, pancreas and kidneys were removed, a St.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study shows.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.
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Primi risultati dell'autopsia escluderebbero meningite
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The case of a Houston man who advertised for a new liver has prompted the United Network for Organ Sharing to recommend that hospitals discourage patients from soliciting organs and, if possible, to refuse to perform such transplants.
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Doctors in Leeds carry out the NHS's first adult-to-adult live donor liver transplant.