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UW LAGS ON DONOR LUNGS DOCTORS ELSEWHERE SAY PATIENTS WHO COULD HAVE RECEIVED LUNG TRANSPLANTS DIDN'T.(FRONT)
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
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February 10, 2008
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Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125
Far fewer lungs were taken from organ donors at UW Hospital and transplanted into patients in 2006 than at most transplant centers, recent data show.
That means patients in Wisconsin and other states who could have received lung transplants didn't, doctors elsewhere say.
"If we had more organs, more people would be transplanted," said Dr. Cynthia Herrington, a lung transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota.
UW Hospital also refused to operate on some high-risk patients who received transplants elsewhere, the Wisconsin State Journal found in a review of the lung transplant program.
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