Bay Area Has Critical Need for Blood; Donations Can be Done Safely Nonprofit blood collector Vitalant says the pandemic has decimated supplies By Stephen Ellison • Published May 21, 2020 ...

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or "breathing lung ...

On average, Americans who received donor hearts between 2013 and 2017 were 21% less likely to die within a year, compared to their counterparts a decade earlier. That's despite the growth in ...

"Yet, we found no such differences, and in fact, this study offers early evidence that COVID-19-positive donor hearts may be as safe as hearts without COVID-19 for heart transplantation." ...

Living donor transplantation offers a safe alternative ... Identifying differences in outcomes and other transplant characteristics may help identify areas for healthcare improvement and ...

Most of the studies on kidney donation focus on the recipients and how well they adjust to their new kidneys. A new study documents how well donors fare after the surgery. Kidneys are the most ...

These donor tissues are called allograft tissues. ... Verywell Health. Are Donor Tissues and Grafts Safe? Story by Jonathan Cluett, MD • 1y. Medically reviewed by Yaw Boachie-Adjei, MD.

Non-traditional donor lungs appear safe for transplant. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 5, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 10 / 141001085955.htm. Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Kidney transplant recipients do not contract COVID-19 from accepting a kidney donation from a COVID-19-positive deceased donor, according to data published in the Journal of Urology.In a ...

In the observational study of 198 kidney transplant recipients with HIV, half (99) received a kidney from a deceased donor who was HIV-positive, and the other half from a deceased donor who didn ...