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Ohio’s University Hospitals Transplanted Kidney Into Wrong Patient

August 6, 2021

Ohio’s University Hospitals has acknowledged that a kidney intended for one patient was wrongly implanted into another patient, leaving the intended recipient waiting for a kidney transplant and remaining one of almost 1,100 other people in Northeast Ohio who are waiting for kidney transplants[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses “Same Or Related Specialty” Requirement In Medical Malpractice Case

October 30, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unreported opinion dated October 25, 2019 that “a licensed nurse practitioner, even one who is a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator, is not “in the same or related specialty” as a board-cer[...]

South Dakota Eye Bank Sued For Medical Malpractice

June 21, 2016

A South Dakota eye bank is being sued by two teenagers who either lost their eyesight or are at significant risk of losing their eyesight because the South Dakota eye bank supplied infected corneas that were transplanted in them. One of the plaintiffs is a 19-year-old woman who is now blind in h[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Vacates Dismissal Of Kidney Transplant Recipient’s Medical Malpractice Claim

April 21, 2016

On April 11, 2016, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Appellate Court”) vacated a medical malpractice tribunal’s dismissal of a kidney transplant medical malpractice lawsuit from the recipient regarding an infected kidney that was transplanted into her, holding tha[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Live Kidney Donor Death

April 11, 2016

The wife of a 40-year-old man who was a live donor of a kidney that was implanted into his 69-year-old father has filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit against the surgeon who performed the live kidney removal, and his medical practice, alleging that the defendant surgeon’s medical negli[...]

Minnesota Malpractice Case For Cancerous Pancreas Transplanted Into Patient

January 9, 2015

In an unpublished opinion released on November 29, 2014, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit involving the transplantation of a pancreas from a donor who unknowingly had cancer into a woman who subsequently cont[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed By Kidney Donor

August 11, 2014

When a Texas grandmother needed a kidney transplant, her granddaughter was found to be an appropriate kidney donor. With the love between a grandmother and her granddaughter as the sole motivating factor, the kidney transplant surgery took place on February 1, 2012, with the granddaughter donat[...]

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