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New method of donor-lung distribution could decrease deaths of candidates on transplant waitlist

A new method of donor-lung distribution is projected to decrease the number of candidate deaths who are on the waitlist for lung transplant, according to a study by Cleveland Clinic and the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) published in The American Journal of Transplantation. ....

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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 June 6, 2013 02:06:00

Allocation score, they will still get their lungs first. it s just now sarah will have an opportunity to not have to wait for every adult, no matter what their score is, to pass the lung and then it be offered to the pediatric patients. do you have any sense of what her chances of getting a donation are in the next ten days? at the that s a tricky question. because obviously for sarah to get the opportunity to have the gift of life here, another family has to go through what would be probably their worst day in their life. so it s impossible to really tell. what we do know is, over the last 18 months, we ve gotten to know a lot of individuals across the nation who have had lung transplants. and we do know most of them, the majority of them, when they received their lung transplants, their lung allocation scores were actually in the mid 40s. so her score being 78 is extremely high. she s at the top of the list or very close to the top of the list so it s highly likely ....

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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 June 6, 2013 00:06:00

It s just now sarah will have an opportunity to not have to wait for every adult, no matter what their score is, to pass the lung and then it be offered to the pediatric patients. do you have any sense of what her chances of getting a donation are in the next ten days? at the that s a tricky question. because obviously for sarah to get the opportunity to have the gift of life here, another family has to go through what would be probably their worst day in their life. so it s impossible to really tell. what we do know is, over the last 18 months, we ve gotten to know a lot of individuals across the nation who have had lung transplants. and we do know most of them, the majority of them, when they received their lung transplants, their lung allocation scores were actually in the mid 40s. so her score being 78 is extremely high. she s at the top of the list or very close to the top of the list so it s highly likely she ll get lungs in the next ten ....

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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 June 6, 2013 08:06:00

And then it be offered to the pediatric patients. do you have any sense of what her chances of getting a donation are in the next ten days? at the that s a tricky question. because obviously for sarah to get the opportunity to have the gift of life here, another family has to go through what would be probably their worst day in their life. so it s impossible to really tell. what we do know is, over the last 18 months, we ve gotten to know a lot of individuals across the nation who have had lung transplants. and we do know most of them, the majority of them, when they received their lung transplants, their lung allocation scores were actually in the mid-40s. so her score being 78 is extremely high. she s at the top of the list or very close to the top of the list, so it s highly likely she ll get lungs in the next ten days. have you heard has anyone in your family heard from secretary sebelius since today s ruling or at any point, really, ....

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