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Every nine minutes, a name is added to the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. The American Transplant Foundation is working to solve this crisis. Watch the story in 9News here.
By Katie Chen
Pediatric Nurses Week is a time to celebrate and reflect on the contributions nurses make to the pediatric community and their families.
Gerri James, RN, BSN, CCTC, manager of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, is often the first person parents hear from when their children are referred for a transplant. Read more from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
By Jessica Albert
BALTIMORE – Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart.
The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all other transplant centers because of pre-existing conditions.
We are told the patient is breathing on his own and his new heart is working without any assistance. Read the full story from WJZ CBS News Baltimore.
By Dick Franklin
What a life this is. We have days filled with unimaginable bliss, enjoying each moment with enthusiasm or peaceful rest, and then in a moment we may see it all dissolve. This is what it was for me when told that I had end stage renal disease and would face a lifetime of dialysis without a kidney transplant.
I suppose it was not surprising. Read the full article in The Gazette.
By Niko Clemons
Two lives were saved at once after a paired kidney exchange at the Miami Transplant Institute.
Doctors diagnosed Michael Deitado with chronic kidney disease when he was 28 years old. Fast forward 29 years, he was in desperate need of a kidney transplant. His wife, Astrid, was a perfect kidney donor match, but her kidneys were too small. Check out the full story from 6 (NBC) South Florida News.
By William E. Lombard
The Pacific Northwest region has a history of innovation in kidney research and dialysis with a legacy of mission-driven care to individuals with chronic kidney failure. Access to dialysis is essential to high-quality treatment for people with end-stage renal disease. But the best treatment option for many patients is a kidney transplant from a living donor.
Dialysis patients are inherently vulnerable. Chronic kidney failure (CKF) was once a fatal disease, in every single case. Read the full article in the Lynden Tribune.
Logan was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation that causes bile to build up in the liver. Logan’s parents didn’t want to wait any longer in Florida for a transplant. So they checked out a pediatric liver transplant program in Pittsburgh at UPMC Children’s Hospital. Watch this story on WTAE-TV Pittsburgh.
By Zulekha Nathoo
A 23-year-old woman in Akron, Ohio, was moved to tears after meeting the family of someone who saved her life.
“Just absolutely amazing and breathtaking, emotional, but also gratifying,” said heart transplant recipient Katherine Herrmann.
Herrmann had undergone 20 surgeries and procedures on her heart before even reaching the age of 20. When she suffered heart failure while still in college, her doctors told her a transplant was the only option to keep her alive. Read the full story in USA Today.
Organ donors are some of the most selfless people in the world, so it’s always emotional when someone who received an organ from a donor can meet their family.
That’s what happened when 22-year-old Katherine Herrmann met the family of an organ donor who gave her a new heart. Hermann received her new heart last summer, after having a lifetime of heart problems and 20 surgeries, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Check out the story on Click 2 Houston.com.
By Elise Takahama
It had been less than two weeks since giving birth when a coronary artery in Adriana Rodriguez’s heart burst.
The sudden tear interrupted an early December breakfast with her mother in Bellingham, and within minutes her chest started tightening. A wave of nausea weakened her body. She wanted to curl up into a ball.
Read the full story in The Seattle Times.