Category: Surgery
Expanding Guidelines
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Anchor lead: The time people must wait to receive a liver transplant may now be shorter, Elizabeth Tracey reports Liver transplants are most often needed because someone’s liver is damaged due to alcohol use, so centers used to require potential …
Right Lungs
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Anchor lead: What are the considerations in matching lungs to recipients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Matching lungs available for transplant to the appropriate recipient is a complex business, with a multitude of factors requiring integration. That’s according to Errol Bush, surgical …
Changing Transport
Lung in a Box
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Anchor lead: New technology may allow more lung transplants, Elizabeth Tracey reports Obtaining lungs suitable for transplant may now be easier with a technology that helps maintain the organs outside the body. Errol Bush, surgical director of lung transplantation at …
Transplants Resume
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Anchor lead: People who are awaiting kidney transplants now have at least two options, Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people who need a kidney have had their surgeries delayed by recent events, but now those constraints are starting to ease. Andrew Cameron, …
Reducing Opioids
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Anchor lead: It is possible to reduce opioid use after surgery, Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioids are a concern for everyone these days, with physicians trying hard to find alternatives. An approach developed by Glen Whitman, a cardiovascular surgeon at Johns …