Medical Center has voluntarily suspended its living-donor program initiated for kidney transplant after the mysterious death of a kidney donor. According to medical protocols, when such an event occurs, it is customary for the transplant center to cease activity in the case of living donor transplants.
Following the death, the cause of which is still unknown and is under investigation, the hospital immediately notified the United Network for Organ Sharing. On the other hand, the patient who received the kidney from the deceased donor is stable as the transplanted kidney is working properly. They wouldn't discuss the case further.
The UCSF Medical Center has managed to reach a conclusion concerning the case of the four deaths registered after undergoing a kidney transplant procedure.
Other transplant programs are not impacted, such as the deceased donor kidney transplantation and living donor liver transplantation. He said it's unclear whether the donor death was related to the organ procurement surgery, caused by an underlying medical condition or some other reason. Doctors said that kidney donor's death risk after surgery is around.03% or three deaths in every 10,000 cases. In 2014, two deaths of kidney donors were reported in the US, while another two have died in 2015.
"Any healthy person can safely donate a kidney", said the statement.
The shutdown of the program leaves patients with kidney failure hanging.
The principal of a San Francisco high school will donate a kidney to a 20-year-old former student who was diagnosed with a deadly illness a year after he graduated. And to top it all up, according to hospital records, it would seem that the UCSF and OPTN tag-team managed to secure over 10000 transplants since 1964.
Physicians at California Pacific, which also has a robust kidney transplant program, said they are scheduled to take over the donor side for several transplant surgeries that are scheduled before the new year. The hospital is not on probation with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/UNOS.
Even if the program is now suspended, the UCSF will continue its transplants from dead donors.
"Our goal is to help (UCSF and its patients) as much as we can", Katznelson said.
Source : tpmelectioncentral.com
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