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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Organ donor status is uncommon in driving-age adolescents, with approximately one in four parents reporting ...
Children’s Hospital Colorado successfully performed an extremely rare and challenging transplant surgery on a little girl ...
Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008;9(2):180-185. Complex belief systems about organ donation are influential at the time of donation decisions, especially when the deceased's intentions are unknown, which is ...
(WXYZ) — This week is National Pediatric Transplant Week. It focuses on the powerful message of ending the pediatric transplant waiting list. There are more than ...
(SALT LAKE CITY)— Changes in the circumstances of when organs are donated to pediatric patients has resulted in a decreased number of organ transplant wait-list deaths over the past decade, according ...
Measurements and Main Results: Among 224 deaths, 23 (10%) met neurologic criteria for death: 18 donated organs (conversion rate 78%), 47 (19%) died without prior limitation of life-sustaining ...
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Two years ago, we introduced you to Ava Thomas. She was four years old at the time awaiting a lung transplant after receiving a cystic fibrosis diagnosis at only three weeks ...
Nearly 2,000 children ranging from newborns to 17-year-olds received organ transplants in 2015, and nearly 2,000 children are still on the waitlist, according to HHS’ information on organ donation and ...
Lane Graves' parents are urging others to think about pediatric organ donation to help make sure no other families suffer like they did Losing a child is every parent's worst nightmare — and no one ...
BOSTON (WWLP) – April is Organ Donation Month, and this week is focused on pediatric organ donation, as eight people are added to the waiting list for life-saving transplants each day. A single donor ...
Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital has performed 100 more transplants than any other pediatric hospital in the U.S. in the last decade. And 2023 was the seventh consecutive year the hospital has ...