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Organ Donation: Minorities Face Crisis as Recipients Outnumber Donors
April 12, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Organ Donation News
Organ transplantation involves putting organs or tissues from one person into the body of another person, whose organs or tissues have been damaged or are no longer working.
“The recipient has to be immunologically matched to the donor well enough that the organ won't be immediately rejected,” says Mark Schnitzler, Ph.D., assistant professor of health administration at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “Blood type match has to be acceptable and the recipient can’t be already sensitized to the donor’s tissue types.”
The need for transplants is particularly high among minorities, especially among African-Americans. Of the 83,000 people on the national transplant waiting list, approximately fifty percent are minorities, according to United Network for Organ Sharing.
According to a recent study in the American Journal for Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, David J. Lederer, M.D., and colleagues at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York found that, “After listing for lung transplantation, African-American patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were less likely to undergo transplantation and more likely to die or be removed from the list compared with Caucasian patients.” Unequal access to care is among the likely reasons Lederer and his team cited for this disparity.
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