Quotes About Transplant

Nasil and Owen transport organs for transplant these days—and deliver takeout. I hope they don't get those mixed up.

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

A lot of people simply don't know about the ability to be a living donor. All of us grew up on the idea that you only got organ donations from a dead person that had checked a box on a driver's license.

I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'

domino transplant" in which she received a healthy heart and lung from a deceased donor and her still-healthy heart was given to another patient; this way, her new lungs, connected to their original heart, are less likely to fail.)

I have a pig valve.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

Oh don't torture my heart! I'll die of sadness in one week there. Living among strangers! How can you transplant an old tree?

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Since 1988, Iran has had a government-funded, regulated system for purchasing kidneys.

On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

Niki blurted out the news. "Some joker in Africa has done a heart transplant!" "Jesus . . ." Kantrowitz groaned. He knew who had beaten him. "Barnard!

Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that "I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

The first transplant recipients did not die because their new kidneys failed, but rather because their bodies would not be fooled. Though the new kidney cells looked and acted in every respect like the old ones, they did not belong. Transplant surgeons must now give the recipient immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of the patient's life

We] picked them up, that is, their internals, and did not know the soldiers they belonged to. So you see, the cavalryman got an infantryman's guts, and an infantryman got a cavalryman's guts.

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.

Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.í”