In early 2024, 8,394 patients were waitlisted for solid organ transplantation in Germany. Long waiting times and declining donor numbers highlight the urgenc ...

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Despite treatment, chronic lung diseases such as COPD or cystic fibrosis can become so severe that a lung transplant is necessary. Dr Urte Sommerwerck explains which patients might be considered for ...

Religion und Politik > Personen > HauptantragstellerInnenParticipation in the Cluster of Excellence Head of project A2-17 Anthropology, Autonomy, and Individualism as ...

In partnership with the Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation, the organization responsible for coordinating organ donations in Germany, the LRMC intensive care unit staff have worked around the ...

On Dec 3, 2014, Jiefu Huang, Director of the China Organ Donation and Transplant Committee and former Vice Minister of Health, announced that, from Jan 1, 2015, only voluntarily donated organs would ...

The field of solid organ transplantation has seen significant advances in surgical techniques, medical diagnosis, selection process, and pharmacotherapy over the past 6 decades. Despite these ...

Physicians, medical staff, and patients, much like the general population, are becoming increasingly sensitized to the issue of radiation exposure from diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. The ...

In deciding whether to pursue pregnancy, transplant recipients need to know what they can expect for their own health and for that of their potential children. This article considers how physicians ...

The therapeutic promise of transplanting organs from cadaveric donors, as envisioned by the pioneers of transplantation,1 has never been realized because the demand for cadaveric organs has far exc ...