Organ donation
Status Update: I’m an organ donor
Here’s some news that makes us want to hit the “Like” button… Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this morning announced a partnership between Facebook and Donate Life America. The partnership is designed to raise awareness about the need for donors and to encourage people to sign up for their state’s organ donor registry. Just imagine if every Facebook user [...]
The transplant matchmaker: Barnes-Jewish HLA lab
More than 400 people work in the laboratories at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Most patients never see them, but their work is vital – helping doctors make diagnoses, pointing the way to an effective treatment, and even giving some patients a second chance at life. During Laboratory Professionals Week, we salute the people who work in the labs, [...]
How to start saving lives today – MidAmerica Transplant Services tells you how
Editor’s note: This is the first in a seven part series on the donation process as submitted by Justin Phelps, a communications coordinator at Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS). He will guest blog periodically in 2012 to give our readers a better understanding of MTS and the services it provides. He may be reached at jphelps@mts-stl.org. You [...]
MTS is one link in transplantation process
Editor’s note: Justin Phelps is a communications coordinator at Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS). He will guest blog periodically in 2012 to give our readers a better understanding of MTS and the services it provides. He may be reached at jphelps@mts-stl.org. First, we at Mid-America Transplant Services would like to thank our friends at Barnes-Jewish Hospital [...]
Paired kidney exchange gets people off the waiting list, back into living
Here’s a simple way to explain kidney transplant chains: In a kidney chains, a person who want to give a kidney to a specific kidney patient, but who don’t match that patient, gives their kidney to someone else whom they match but don’t know and who also has an unmatching donor so that the person they originally intended [...]
Long-term transplant survival: An answer to a 24-year-old question
A quick history lesson before we tell you about Cindy Conrad: Organ transplant was first attempted in the 1950s. At first, the only transplants performed were living donor kidney transplants between identical twins, who, being genetically identical, were automatically a perfect match. In the 1960s and 1970s, surgeons tried other types of transplants. But steroids, [...]
The best of transplant 2011 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
In the season of giving, as our gift to you, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite transplant stories from the Washington University- Barnes-Jewish Hospital Transplant Center in 2011. Enjoy these two for starters: First, the story of someone who gave the gift of life, and in doing so, got a gift of his own. From March, here’s the story [...]
Craigslist…the UNOS of the future?
Craigslist is basically the classified ad section of the newspaper, but online. People use it to find everything from a cheap sofa for their first apartment, to locally harvested organic honey, to vintage 1950s aprons, to…um, companionship. Not the best way to find someone willing to donate a kidney – or so you would think. But [...]
1st heart/kidney transplant patient, one year post-op
You may have seen our earlier post about Jonathan Sadowski, Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s first heart/kidney transplant patient. It’s been over a year since his ground-breaking surgery, and this young man is thriving. I remember meeting with him just after his transplant in 2010, and he was very frail and unsteady, getting ready to go home and [...]
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