Sentence examples for receiving a transplant from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, there is a significant shortage of lungs for transplantation, and many patients die before receiving a transplant.

Not all IPF patients would be eligible for or willing to undergo transplantation, thus this probably overestimates the proportion not receiving a transplant.

In the past Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) was one of the main indications for liver transplantation (LTX), whereas nowadays, the proportion of patients receiving a transplant for PBC has decreased to around 10% [ 1- 3].

Once registered for transplantation, patients in both transplanting and non-transplanting renal centres had an equal chance of receiving a transplant from a donor after brain stem death (odds ratio 1.01, 0.87 to 1.18).

Imagine that there was a law which prevented 150 children a year suffering from a life threatening liver or kidney failure from receiving a transplant.

The only available treatments – dialysis or receiving a transplant – just buy a patient more time but come with considerable limitations on quality of life.

For patients receiving a transplanted solid organ, the problem is that the patient's immune system rejects the foreign tissue.

For the 76 patients who proceeded to transplantation, patients receiving UCB received a transplant a median of 25 days more rapidly than did those receiving BM (P <.01).

It combined the survival times of those who died awaiting transplantation and those who received a transplant.

Even though she has liver cancer and topped the New York waiting list a month ago, Ms. Torres still has not received a transplant and is no longer first in line.

Last October, he received a transplant from a cadaver.