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Precious gift
Grad student's kidney gives life to stranger
March 9,
2009 -- Last year, Chuck Rickert, a fifth-year student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the School of Medicine, heard a show about kidney donation on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation." One of the callers, a man in his 50s on dialysis, said his blood type did not match any friends or family, and his only option for a new kidney was to wait for something bad to happen to a younger person. The distressed man's call stuck with Rickert, who eventually decided to anonymously donate one of his own kidneys.
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Research network
School of Medicine to lead international pediatric lung transplant research trials
March 14,
2008 -- The School of Medicine has received a five-year, $3.9 million grant to lead an international research effort designed to improve outcomes for children undergoing lung transplants. Lung-transplant patients are subject to more frequent infections, organ rejection and other complications than patients with other transplanted organs.
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Viewing cancer at the molecular level
Innovative molecular imaging center gets five-year, $10 million renewal grant
Nov. 8,
2007 -- An innovative cancer imaging center at the School of Medicine has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The grant will fund a second cycle of research at the Washington University Molecular Imaging Center, where scientists from many different specialties collaborate on advanced imaging projects.
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William Chapman
Professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Transplantation
Chapman, also chief of the abdominal transplantation section, is a highly respected liver transplant specialist. He researches image-guided liver surgery and minimizing the effects of liver injury.
Expertise: liver transplant, abdominal transplant, hepatobiliary surgery
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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Marc Hammerman
Chromalloy Professor of Renal Diseases in Medicine
Hammerman is a leader in the emerging field of organogenesis, which focuses on growing organs from stem cells and other embryonic cell clusters known as organ primordia. Unlike stem cells, which can become virtually any cell type, primordia are locked into becoming a particular cell type or one of ...
Expertise: Organogenesis, organ, transplant, kidney, pancreas, diabetes, kidney failure, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Joseph G. Rogers
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division
Rogers' clinical practice and research involve congestive heart failure patients, working to improve patient care with new pharmaceutical and surgical tools.
Expertise: heart failure, cardiac transplantation, left ventricular assist device, LVAD, biventricular pacemakers
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant
The Wall Street Journal
June 22,
2009 -- Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a controversial liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially. WUSTL pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery professor William Hawkins and surgery professor William Chapman both comment.
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Liver transplants from elderly donors are safe
Reuters Health
and 6 others
Dec. 30,
2008 -- Advanced donor age, per se, does not adversely affect the transplant recipient or the survival of the organ after liver transplantation, according to a report in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. WUSTL surgery professor William Chapman and colleagues found there was no significant difference in the number of second transplants performed or signs that another transplant was going to be needed between patients who received organs from younger and older donors.
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Livers from older donors work well in transplants
Reuters
and 13 others
July 22,
2008 -- Liver transplant patients who receive an organ from a donor age 60 or older do just as well as patients getting a liver from a younger donor, U.S. researchers said. A WUSTL medical school team, led by surgeon William Chapman, analyzed data and said the results should inspire some confidence about donated livers from older donors.
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Lung patients see a new era of transplants
The New York Times
Sept. 25,
2006 -- Front page story -- A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list. Changes include who gets a lung transplant first -- people who would soon die without a transplant, but who had a good chance of surviving after one.
Another major change is that more lungs from cadavers have become available.
WUSTL transplant surgeon Alexander Patterson comments. WUSTL has one of the country's largest lung transplant programs.
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Organ trade in China raises alarm over human rights
Kansas City Star
and 16 others
Aug. 24,
2006 -- As transplant lists grow longer, more Americans are traveling to China for organs. The trend alarms ethicists and U.S. doctors concerned about the human rights of donors and the health and safety of recipients.
Includes comments by Jeffrey Crippin, president of the American Society of Transplantation and medical director of WUSTL's liver transplant program, and Ira Kodner, a colorectal surgeon and director of the WUSTL's Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values.
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