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These trends are indicated in the Organ wait-list by organ for 2001 to 2010. Transplants from 2001 to 2010, however, indicated an increased trend by 275 operations in deceased and living kidney, kidney pancreas, deceased and living liver, heart and lung transplants. Heart with lung transplants remained stable.
The kidney was donated by Wellington radio presenter Grant Kereama. Lomu came back to professional rugby in 2005, though not with his past success. July 28, 2004 11 years [50] George Lopez (1961–) Actor-comedian and star of the George Lopez TV series. Kidney transplant from his wife, Ann Lopez, in April 2005 April 2005 [51] Sarah Hyland (1990–)
Kidney Foundation of Canada. The Kidney Foundation of Canada promotes organ donor awareness, and fundraises for kidney /renal research at various hospitals across Canada. They have offices in most major cities in Canada. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Lung allocation score. The lung allocation score (LAS) is a numerical value used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to assign relative priority for distributing donated lungs for transplantation within the United States. The lung allocation score takes into account various measures of a patient's health in order to direct donated ...
The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is a national registry in the United States listing kidney donors and recipients in need of a kidney transplant. NKR facilitates over 450 "Kidney Paired Donation" (KPD) or "Paired Exchange" transplants annually. [1] [2] More than one-third of potential living kidney donors who want to donate their kidney to a ...
The first successful kidney transplant took place in 1954. The first liver and lung transplants with living donors followed many years later, in 1989 and 1990, respectively.
The Trillium Gift of Life Network was an agency of the Government of Ontario responsible for the province's organ donation strategy, promotion, and supply. [2] Ronnie Gavsie was the President & CEO. [1] [3] The agency maintained the popular BeADonor.ca website. [4] It was subsequently subsumed under Ontario Health in 2019.
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.