Sentence examples for governing transplants from inspiring English sources

A 10-year-old suffering from cystic fibrosis whose family went to the courts to fight a rule preventing her from accessing a list of adult lung donors, triggering a national debate about the regime governing transplants for children, was recovering at a Philadelphia hospital after receiving a set of adult organs.

Under the rules governing transplant cases involving children under 12, Sarah would have been made to wait for paediatric lungs.

Once the plane was in the air, Dr. Lobritto called the United Network for Organ Sharing, which governs transplants in the United States, and asked for an exception to the usual rules.

"I could take two organs from one donor and give them to two different people and save two lives," one of the doctors involved in Tyler's case notes, explaining the difficult calculus that governs transplants.

The other is that there are few rules governing live transplants, like Melnyk's.

Many laws and policies governing the Internet and digital property are inadequate attempts to transplant rules from a different era.

I'm also not sure I'm ready to wipe out all the rules governing the medical profession in favor of, say, star ratings for organ transplants.

In the end, I found no universal standard that governs all 245 medical centers in the United States that perform kidney transplants.

The area brims with international transplants entranced by its natural beauty and its self-governing, self-sustaining culture.

These data provide an explanation for the variable results with pre-immunocompetence transplants and suggest that natural tolerance to transplants is governed by the systemic vs. localized nature of donor antigen, the site of transplantation, and the antigenic disparity.

Additionally, developing countries have low transplant rates because of a combination of low levels of infrastructure; geographical remoteness; lack of legislation governing brain death; religious, cultural and social constraints; and commercial incentives that favor dialysis [ 38].