Transplant surgeons fear using organs from 'High-Risk' donors, despite safety record
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
As a response to a 2007 episode in which four patients in Chicago were transplanted with organs from a single donor unknowingly infected with HIV -- the only such episode in 20 years -- one-third of transplant surgeons in the United States overreacted and began routinely using fewer organs from high-risk donors, new research from Johns Hopkins finds.
