Transplant Quotations

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Making a human embryonic stem cell, even from a nuclear transplant from an adult, in no way demonstrates that the embryo is going to be viable. I don't think there's a substantive ethical issue here - or a substantive scientific issue.

Seniors, the disabled, the mentally ill, people on life-saving transplant rejection drugs - the least medically secure have been the most affected. At least now with a state emergency declared no one will walk out of the pharmacy without the medications they need.

She was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine to keep her alive, and so they said that transplant was the only option.

She was hooked up to an ECMO machine to keep her alive and so they said that transplant was her only option.

I have neighbors, I have friends, and now I have to pick up and go. It's the off-season. I don't have to be here right now but I choose to. It's going to be hard to have to transplant somewhere else.

Jack and I were determined to have more kids, to have more healthy kids, and possibly to have a transplant for Molly.

I don't believe that private delivery systems will be anxious to take on some of the high-cost services, such as expensive cancer treatments or transplant surgeries. They're more likely to look at what is profitable.

He's partying like he just won the liver transplant lotto.

We report for the first time the ability to monitor single immune cells in a live animal using MRI. This could revolutionize the management of transplant patients.

Success in the transplant setting may provide for a rapid path to market.

People literally are dying on the transplant list who could be cured with this,

I'm here, I think, under kind of false pretenses, and I think I have to become straight with you. Ten years ago, 11 years ago, I had a heart transplant -- a total heart transplant. I got the heart of, I think, a young woman who was about in her late 30s. So, by that calculation, you may be giving me this award too early, because I think I got about 40 years left on it -- and I intend to use it.

(It is infinitely better to transplant a heart) than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Unfortunately, there is a lot of old growth there and to even attempt to transplant those would have disturbed the roots to the point where the tree would have eventually died.

Usually there are four or five treatments that are done before the transplant and then after the transplant they have an additional two or three treatments,

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

Was really looking forward to a transplant as a turning point in his life. I'll tell you it was extremely optimistic at the beginning.

We were told that he could have a kidney transplant but chances were that in a couple of years his kidneys would just fail again.

We've chose the Transplant Resource Center, an organ donation center, to be the recipient of this year's benefit.

What's new here is not the use of umbilical cord blood in the treatment of a life-threatening disease, but it's the way the transplant was engineered and the way the baby was conceived.

The transplant center told us how important it was, just raising awareness that people need kidneys. There were 173 people on the waiting list, and now there's one less, ... That's 173 people who are waiting for a cadaveric donor because they don't have a family member who is a match.

While the first human organ transplant was performed 50 years ago, it was the arrival of the drug cyclosporine that vastly improved transplant survival rates and helped make transplantation the almost routine procedure it is today. That development offered hope to thousands of patients suffering from failing kidneys, livers, and hearts.

Normal levels of telomerase didn't lengthen short telomeres in our mice, so the longer the telomeres are to start with, the longer transplanted stem cells will be able to divide and the more likely the transplant is to succeed.

Ever since the transplant I've been rebuilding back. I stayed in the hospital about a month after that and lost about 35-40 pounds. I spent the whole summer just walking again, doing little things because staying on my feet was the challenge.

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.

There's no difference in the economic climate that Chrysler faces than the one that Ford and GM face. All three of us are in an entirely different boat than transplant operators. All three have legacy costs. All three of us have made commitments to our work force and our retirees that haven't manifested themselves with the transplants.

A father - son transplant would have the best chance for success, and I want to keep my dad around as long as I can.

After the scalp transplant in 2003, a face transplant is technically practical.

I'm not here to transplant saints. If you just want an ordinary church, pick up the Yellow Pages and find the closest one to you.

It turns out that while I was in the hospital, the song went to number one, ... All in the same day, my transplant, the song, it was pretty intense. The guys called me on the phone and sang, 'Happy transplant to you.'

I want to step up our drive to get more donors so that vital medical advances are not halted and people whose lives could so easily be saved with a transplant are not left to die unnecessarily, ... The overriding principle of all of this will be consent.

About 80 percent of people having a transplant do well at one year. If they do well at one year, they go on doing well.

In Scotland, 13 patients have died in each of the last two years and many more have had to be removed from the liver transplant waiting list because they have become too unwell while waiting for a donor organ.

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined, ... We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

The doctors say that this happens to three in a million for infants to be born with it. She will need another transplant in six years.

The doctors told her she needs a bone marrow transplant to increase her chances for long term survival. Because her cancer is always recurring, that odds are against her to live cancer free. Her best odds for living a full healthy life is to have a bone marrow transplant.

The typical process for administering medications in a hospital provides great opportunity for missed handoffs and errors. On average 30 people touch a medication before it is administered. Imagine the complexity for a nurse who typically administers 10 medications per patient per day, or the safety risks for a transplant patient who might receive 36 medications in a single shift. As healthcare leaders, we must address the technology aspects of safety while promoting a culture of safety and addressing the process aspects of safe, high-quality care.

The doctor came in and said a transplant would be the best thing for her. I told him we would do whatever he says is best.

The findings were pretty striking, ... It would be a step forward in making transplant more accessible to more people, especially older people, and reducing the morbidity and mortality from acute GVHD.

It's made it more difficult for some of the Japanese transplant companies here to get timely equipment. We're getting a lot more opportunity to work with Japanese transplants this year.

It's still considered experimental to do what happened with Barney Clark -- which is to put the person on the pump for the rest of their life, never intending to transplant them.

They need to bring in a heartthrob, or bring up one, ... I mean, they either need to change the Noah Wyle character (Wyle plays Dr. John Carter) so he becomes more of a heartthrob and less of a kid and more of a man, or they need to bring somebody in -- transplant a heartthrob to 'ER.' I think they need it.

They do testing throughout the whole evaluation process. The results that came back Monday before the scheduled transplant indicated that the match was not as good as they had first thought, so they canceled the transplant.

Within one year of starting work, I had found that the nucleus of an endoderm cell from an advanced tadpole was able to yield some normal development up to the nuclear transplant tadpole stage.

This upgrade will mean that vital medicines for some of our most vulnerable patients - such as babies, children and bone marrow transplant patients - can be made on site in a new purpose-built environment, reducing their chance of infection,