Organ transplant need highlighted by Iowa patients faces long waits
Health officials note about 25 000 potential donors yearly in the United States yet only a quarter consent to donate. The waiting list runs through UNOS with priority to local donors while patients like Zeran Peiper and De Joode endure severe organ failure and uncertain futures.
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United States
Gallup
United Network For Organ Sharing
UNOS
Zeran
Peiper
de Joode
Gazette's Kueter He honored for raising donor awareness
Gazette reporter Dale Kueter was named the first recipient of an annual award by the Organ Procurement Program at the University of Iowa Hospitals. The honor recognizes his year of hard work researching and writing organ transplant stories and his role in creating a statewide donor awareness education group.
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Gazette
Dale Kueter
University of Iowa
Alicia V. Smith
the Highlander
Kueter
the Gazette
Longest surviving five organ transplant patient hospitalized in Pittsburgh
Tabatha Foster a 34 percent survivor of a five organ transplant remains in serious condition after minor surgery to drain bile from her new liver. Doctors say she may recover fully though liver damage is not yet ruled out. Foster received a liver pancreas small intestine and parts of stomach and colon on November 1 and has faced ongoing issues with her liver.
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Peiper
Zeran
Eisenmenger’s
David Rater
Cindy
Pittsburgh
Tabatha Foster
Lynn McMahon
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Madisonville
Roy and
Sandra Foster
Tabatha
McMahon
Cedar Falls man receives heart transplant at Mercy
Gary Fremont, 44, underwent a 314hour operation Friday night at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines. Doctors implanted a new heart for the Cedar Falls machinist, now listed in critical but stable condition. Surgeons Dr. Steven Phillips and Dr. Richard Toon led the 23rd Mercy heart transplant. 17 recipients remain living.
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Des Moines
Cedar Falls
Mercy Hospital Medical Center
Gary Fremont
Fremont
Bill Maurer
Steven Phillips
Richard Toon
Mercy
Maurer
Ethics Debate On Organ Transplantation In Iowa Medical Community
Iowa City health professionals gathered at the Highlander Inn for a fourth annual transplant workshop. Richard Van Iten urged sensitivity to ethical positions while noting unanswered questions about donor prioritization and societal control of transplants. Dr. Lawrence Hunsicker discussed rare organ use in AIDS patients and UI Hospitals policy requiring AIDS testing for donors.
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Iowa
Iowa City
Richard van Iten
Highlander Inn
van Iten
College of Sciences and Humanities
Iowa State University
Department of Nursing
United Network For Organ Sharing
UNOS
Lawrence Hunsicker
Hunsicker
Department of Internal Medicine
University Hospitals
Veterans Administration Hospital
UIOS
University of Iowa
New York AIDS shift as drug users surpass gay cases
New York City reports that the first three months of 1988 saw 386 AIDS cases among intravenous drug users versus 385 among homosexual and bisexual men. Health officials note a shift from initial dominance by gay cases to growing drug-user infections, with 65 percent of cases now among men who have sex with men and 35 percent among drug users.
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New York
New York City
Stephen Joseph
Joseph
Marvin Bogner
Department of Health
Bogner
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