Other transplant programs are not impacted, such as the deceased donor kidney transplantation and living donor liver transplantation. The organization on an average carries out approximately 350 Kidney transplants in its region and out of which approximately 150 are done on living donors. It decided not to perform the donor portion of the transplant surgeries, but it will carry on kidney transplantation from living and deceased donors. This decision has been reached following the November incident when a donor has died immediately after kidney transplantation. The hospital and regulatory officials are investigating the cause of death. The recipient, on the other hand, is doing well following the transplant in October.
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According to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network, only four donors lost their lives at US transplant centers within 30 days of having donated their kidneys between the years of 2009 and 2013 – none of which were at UCSF Medical.
We worry about it every day (…) For a healthy person who goes under general anesthesia, there’s always a risk.
Although the living kidney transplant program was ceased, the deceased kidney transplant and the living liver transplant programs are still underway.
KTVU reports (http://bit.ly/1mddpUs) that on Thursday UCSF Medical Center announced it was voluntarily suspending its living donor program for kidney transplants.
The statement released by the hospital said, “The safety and well-being of our patients is our top priority, and every effort is being made to understand what happened”.
UCSF doctors initially found a match for Sanders and scheduled surgery, but that donor got sick.
Christine Buell, vice principal at Sacred Heart Cathedral in San Francisco, was preparing to give her organ to former student Kelvin Sanders. He said neither he nor his donor are discouraged. It has the largest waiting list out of any transplant center and has, up to this point, made possible over 10.000 transplants since it first began its program back in 1964. UCSF said in a written statement.
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At the time, other hospitals, including UCSF, took over Kaiser’s kidney transplant patients.
