21. Nationally, transplant experts said, the trend has been away from traumatic deaths as a source of donor organs. 22. Patients receiving donor organs must take immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the transplant. 23. Scientists pursuing xenotransplantation say that using organs from pigs or other animals is the best potential solution to the drastic shortage of human donor organs. 24. Some had already had kidney or liver transplants, and others were desperately ill, waiting for donor organs to become available. 25. Some patients died or needed life-saving liver transplants after taking Rezulin, including a Franklin, Mass. man who urgently needs a donor organ. 26. That policy reflected concern about the widely recognized shortage of donor organs, particularly for infants, said Dr. Charles Plows, chairman of the council. 27. The Clinton administration previously announced an initiative to increase public awareness of the need for donor organs. 28. The field of transplant immunology, and especially the hope of animal-to-human transplants, is driven by a growing shortage of human donor organs. 29. The fate of the microbes and the donor organ is largely determined by where the cells migrate in the body, the scientists said. 30. The quality of donor pig organs will certainly be better than those from human cadavers. |
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