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‘Her life has purpose’: Maple Ridge mom on donating her daughter’s organs following fatal car crash
A Maple Ridge mom is issuing a plea after five people got a second chance at life following her daughter’s death. Madeline Stroup was critically injured in a crash when the pickup truck she was in collided with an SUV on July 26 in Abbotsford.
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Longest living dialysis patient not a match for latest kidney transplant
Kenneth Sharp, the longest living kidney dialysis patient, will have to wait a little longer for a kidney transplant. The Port Hope resident spoke with Northumberland News on Aug. 15 while on his way to Toronto General Hospital, where he had hoped to have the transplant performed later that night. But after a series of blood tests, Sharp said doctors concluded the kidney was not right for him
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Ryan Mclennan continues to enjoy his new lease on life after organ transplant.
It hasn’t been an easy road for Ryan Mclennan since he received his new kidney, and his new lease on life, about eight months ago, but he says he now feels better than he has at any point in the past five years.
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Research seeks to fight organ rejection in kidney transplant patients
While waiting on the transplant list, most patients are extremely sick and fighting just to stay alive. That fight doesn’t come to an end once they’ve been successfully transplanted – organ rejection is a serious potential complication, and patients must be vigilant about taking their immunosuppressive drugs to keep their bodies from rejecting this new foreign object.
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Edmonton surgeons create cyborg tech to better transplant lungs and hearts
Dr. Darren Freed and his team at Tevosol, an Edmonton medical technology company, have built the prototype of a cyborg device that mimics the human body so that lungs can more easily survive outside the human body and be transplanted in excellent condition.
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