The extracorporeal devices are usually connected to recipients' circulation system, which transmit functional factors into the host blood stream without direct interaction.
After the specified period of cold ischemia, the recipient's left kidney was extracted and the donor renal vein was connected to the recipient renal vein through end-to-end anastomosis.
Arteries, veins, nerves and muscles from the donor face must be painstakingly connected to the recipient's, in what Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, Ms. Tarleton's chief transplant surgeon, called "by far the most complicated operation that I do".
Re "When Giving Leaves You Wanting" (Love & Money, Dec. 2), in which Ellyn Spragins found herself searching to make charitable donations that left her energized and feeling connected to the recipients: In 1990, as a 55-year-old childless widower, I began to tire of the usual requests for donations and the small, seemingly inconsequential gifts I made annually.
He has been far more apt to hand out official commendations, for example, than other city officials, with nearly one-quarter of the recipients connected to his campaign.
Since his election to the city comptroller position in 2009, Mr. Liu has showered people and groups with official commendations, handing out more than 760 — with nearly one-quarter of the recipients connected to his political campaign, according to an analysis conducted by The New York Times.
The work marks a world first for the field of regenerative medicine, which has promised so much but until now failed to produce the major achievement of a complex organ that connects to a recipient's blood supply.
Here's what matters most: finding a present that connects to the recipient, creates a sense of enjoyment, and that they're actually going to use.
One hint of the discord came after a reporter called Abiomed earlier this week about whether the AbioCor recipient was connected to a mechanical ventilator or breathing on his own.
In addition, until December, General Zinni was an executive vice president of DynCorp, a recipient of contracts connected to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
