Liver News

I got the following article today! My thought and prayer are with all the Transplant Patients and DonorFamilies. One day, one night if you have nothing to do, please pray for all of us. Including the Doctors, Transplant Team......
For earthly work without them it is hard to believe that I am still talking and walking. I thanks the Lord for creating smart Doctors !!

"Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!" Ruth 2:20

Donated Liver, Pancreas From Cancer Patient Kills Recipients

April 2, 2008 2:03 a.m. EST
Windsor Genova - AHN News Writer
Sag Harbor, NY (AHN) -

Two of four patients who received donated organs from a boy whose death was belatedly diagnosed as caused by lymphoma cancer have died while two others survived after the timely removal of the diseased organs.

The rare incident in 2007 was reported in the January issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. According to the report, the parents of 15-year-old Alex Koehne decided to donate the liver, pancreas and kidneys of their son immediately after his death in March 2007 from what doctors at the Stony Brook University Medical Center believed was bacterial meningitis.

The parents sought an autopsy of their dead son's brain before the organs were extracted . The autopsy results, which came one month after the boy's death, indicated that the victim died from a rare lymphoma cancer.

Koehne's mother, Lisa, later learned from the network that distributed her son's organs that the 36-year-old woman who received her son's pancreas died in May after the organ was removed from her.

Mrs. Koehne also learned that the two men who received her son's kidneys underwent chemotherapy and are now recuperating. The 52-year-old man who received the donated liver died in July last year.

CBSnews.com quoted Dr. Lewis Teperman, director of transplantation at New York University Medical Center and co-author of the report , as saying that organ donor networks and transplant doctors should reconsider using donated organs from victims of alleged bacterial meningitis.