Deceased donor transplants — the most common kind — dropped by about half in the U.S. and 90% in France from late February into early April, researchers found.
Hospitals worldwide have postponed all kinds of medical care as they were flooded with coronavirus patients. Transplants are among the hardest choices. They’re not elective surgeries. But patients must take immune-suppressing medicines to prevent rejection of their new organ — putting them at greater risk if they encounter the virus.
In an average month, New York does about 220 transplants statewide. In the first weeks of April, that had dropped to 23, Samantha Delair of the New York Center for Liver Transplantation told a recent UNOS video conference. For example, Freise's team allowed living kidney transplants for people like Herb Hoeptner, who was on the brink of needing dialysis.
“I was extremely lucky,” added Hoeptner, whose wife, Diane, was his donor and rebounded quickly from the surgery.
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