Maryland Kidney Transplant Recipient Died From Rabies
March 16, 2013
A Maryland man who had received a kidney transplant one and a half years ago from a Florida donor who died in February, 2011, died on February 27, 2013 at the VA Medical Center in Washington after he became ill. Because rabies was suspected to be the cause of his death, a sample of his brain was [...]
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U.S. Statistics For Organ Transplants
April 5, 2011
As medicine and medical techniques have advanced over the years, organ transplants in the United States have generally increased in number and complexity. Whereas only 203 lung transplants were performed in 1990, 1,469 were performed in 2007 (2006 one-year survival rate: 82.4%). 2,631 liver transpla[...]
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