Tag: Kidney
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Trust Erosion in Organ Donation: Navigating America’s Kidney Transplant Crisis
America Just Hit a Kidney Transplant Turning Point A troubling decline in deceased donations is slowing life-saving procedures, and the reasons behind it reveal a broken trust system. In 2025, the United States recorded 28,377 kidney transplants, down 116 from the year before. While that reduction may seem small, it translates to 116 patients missing…
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Revolutionary Breakthrough: Canada’s First Heart Transplant from a Non-Beating Donor
A breakthrough heart transplant was completed in early September at Toronto General Hospital using a donor heart that had stopped beating, marking Canada’s first donation after circulatory criteria (DCC) heart transplant. Traditionally, heart donors are people with no brain function whose hearts continue to beat as organs are recovered. In the DCC approach, the heart…
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Toronto’s Historic Heart Transplant: A Breakthrough in Donation After Circulatory Criteria
Back to beating: Toronto hospital performs heart transplant with heart that stopped Toronto General Hospital carried out Canada’s first donation-after-circulatory-criteria (DCC) heart transplant, UHN reports. In DCC, a heart from a patient who has died (not brain-dead) is recovered after a brief oxygen interruption and transplanted under strict criteria. The recipient is recovering well, and…