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South Bend Medical Foundation [34] Versiti Blood Center of Indiana [35] Iowa. ImpactLife (Formerly: Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center) [36] LifeServe Blood Center [37] Kentucky. Kentucky Blood Center [38] Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center [39] Louisiana.
Allogeneic HSCT involves two people – the (healthy) donor and the (patient) recipient. Allogeneic HSC donors must have a tissue (human leukocyte antigen, HLA) type that matches the recipient. Matching is performed on the basis of variability at three or more loci of the HLA gene, and a perfect match at these loci is preferred.
Honor walk. An honor walk (or hero walk) is a ceremonial event to commemorate a patient whose organs are donated. The event normally takes place as the patient is transported to an operating room or waiting ambulance prior to organ procurement. It is typically held for patients on life support with no chance of survival, but can also be held ...
The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it has confirmed 1,940 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the war with Russia began in February 2022. During the course of the war, 86% of ...
Kidney transplantation. Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.
Vitalant (formerly Blood Systems Inc.[ 1]) is a nonprofit organization that collects blood from volunteer donors and provides blood, blood products and services across the United States. It was founded in 1943 as the Salt River Valley Blood Bank in Phoenix, Arizona . Vitalant is the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit blood services ...
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