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Main OPTN site, with data reports and policies, operated by UNOS on behalf of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Transplant Living, for post-transplant recipients and living donors. UNOS Meeting Partners, an event-planning service for transplantation-related organizations, including UNOS itself. National Donor Memorial
Greenwich, Connecticut. , U.S. Area served. U.S. Website. kidneyregistry .org. 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.
In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United States, [1] each responsible for organ procurement in a specific region, and each a member of the ...
Penn State researchers have developed a potentially groundbreaking solution to the nationwide organ transplant shortage, using a new class of bioinks that produces engineered live tissue using 3D ...
The National Organ Transplant Act ( NOTA) of 1984 is an Act of the United States Congress that created the framework for the organ transplant system in the country. [1] The act provided clarity on the property rights of human organs obtained from deceased individuals and established a public-private partnership known as Organ Procurement and ...
The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research ( CIBMTR) is a research collaboration between the National Marrow Donor Program and the Medical College of Wisconsin. [1] [2] CIBMTR provides information to the medical and scientific communities. It has data from around 630,000 people, 1,750 publications, and approximately 250 ...
1⁄2 months and died in May 1967 of a lung infection and pneumonia. December 16, 1966. [6] [7] [8] First partial human face transplant. Jean-Michel Dubernard and Bernard Devauchelle. Isabelle Dinoire. Dinoire's body rejected the transplant in 2015 and she lost part of the use of her lips.
Organ transplantation and allocation is mired in ethical debate because of this limited availability of organs for transplant. In the United States in 2016, there were 19,057 kidney transplants, 7,841 liver transplants, 3,191 heart transplants, and 2,327 lung transplants performed.