Quotes About Transplant

Cordyceps sinensis (CS) was used in the long-term treatment of renal transplant patients. Long-term survival was no different in the treated and untreated groups, however the incidence of complication was significantly lower in the CS group. The CS group needed much lower doses of cyclosporine A and serum levels of IL-10 in the CS group were much higher. Another renal transplant study with 200 transplant patients showed the same outcomes.

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

If you tried to transplant an internal combustion engine and gearbox into another car, you have to bring with it all the systems and everything else to communicate with each other. But in an electric car, it's much simpler.

I had roots, too, but not like that. I could be carefully dug up, and shaken loose, and transplanted into a king's castle, or a tower built of marble—unhappily, perhaps, but I could survive.

me pregunto si habia ido a Paris a estudiar, en pos de fortuna y gloria o a perfeccionar mi frances, que mas que perfeccionamiento precisaba una cirugia a corazon abierto y un trasplante de cerebro.

After his liver transplant in April 2009, visionary Apple CEO Steve Jobs lived two and a half years

Si existieran mas donantes de organos, la desconexion jamas hubiera existido.

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.

The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.

Monoclonal antibodies are molecules engineered to restore, boost, or mimic the immune system's attack on alien cells. The first one was approved for dealing with acute transplant rejection, but anticancer and anti-inflammatory therapies are now most common, and in 2020 the FDA authorized two compounds for the treatment of COVID-19.

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I've already had two stem cell transplants. Very rarely does somebody have a third, so I have to maintain my strength so I can go through this.

Don't forget my new kidney is a foreign object. My body attacks it. So I have to take these anti-rejection drugs to stop my body winning.

Don't take your organs to heaven with you. Heaven knows we need them here.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.