transplants cured 94% of the people who uh took them and time and again in many
transplants to see if we can help them keep their organs their transplanted
heart transplants or liver transplants um the majority of them I believe die while waiting certainly a good plurality of them die while waiting um unlike
for folks that are transplants like myself.
When I do liver transplants , it's about a 1% chance of dying on the table.
Fecal microbiota transplants are only approved for recurrent CDI, C. diff infections, not the initial C. diff infection.
understand why these transplants work uh and that's that's abundantly clear when
We did 66 islet transplants at Edmonton.
So I mentioned islet transplants today, and stem cells tomorrow.
and surviving lung transplants two different people had recommended the book to me um one of course being my mother and
even though they're all transplants .
She's probably done more heart transplants than ..
And there's been successful bone marrow transplants , one of the oldest stem cell therapies there is, with cells that were frozen for more than 20 years.
About 10% of the living donor kidney transplants in the United States are now done through exchange.
And he's had two kidney transplants .
But it's not only such entrepreneurial transplants that makes Oakland worth visiting.
And the five guys who needed to transplants were peace workers or aid workers, for instance.
the people who need heart transplants or liver transplants um the majority of them I believe die while waiting.
chemotherapy to radiation therapy to bone marrow transplants to monoclonal
minerals and nutrients out of it and fecal transplants , which are a crazy health breakthrough.
But as someone who's done a few hundred liver transplants , it's not a small number.
We do hear that a lot when we get people-- transplants , as we call them-- from other cities who have given up a swanky life in New York
I think this is a really appropriate model for fecal microbiota transplants .
People would get blenders and give each other transplants by having their roommate poop into a blender, grind it up, and then, like, give themselves an enema.
That's not a very safe way to do fecal transplants .
If you're interested in any clinical trials of fecal microbiota transplants , clinicaltrials.gov.
The only difference being that they're all transplants .
the Edmonton protocol-- where all the patients that had the transplants were able to come off insulin and remain off insulin for a period of a years.
Last year we did a record number of islet transplants in Edmonton.
about the transplant community after we received our transplants we became active at the
And we’re starting to be in this era of fecal transplants .
I think San Francisco is like a hub of that because so many people are transplants .
So we've treated in Edmonton over 200 patients-- 218 patients-- who've received 460 transplants .
has been a major limiting factor in terms of the numbers of cell transplants done in the US.
Several groups have reported the ability to achieve what I showed you with two islet transplants with a single donor islet infusion.
And then the second strategy we're using is the Viacyte cell transplants to try to treat patients just like we would at the Edmonton protocol type
We did some work a few years ago on whether you have ultraviolet-blocking lenses for cataract transplants or blue-blocking.
And, two, the people who are getting fecal microbiota transplants are really, really sick.
OpenBiome, we have a dual mission of providing safe access to fecal microbiotic transplants for C. diff but also promoting clinical research.
It's Southern, but yet because it has so many transplants , it has a flavor that feels very diverse, not just Southern.
At that hospital near Tel Aviv, they had been doing kidney transplants for 10 years, and they had 200 survivors-- 2,000 survivors.
Across the world, currently there've been over 1,000 islet transplants done at least 30 different international sites.
And basically to make it very simple, one is islet after kidney transplants , in the 07 one are islets alone.
And this would be important because it would allow twice the number of patients to receive transplants from a limited donor source,
It'll make a big, big difference to the safety of transplants , and also to make sure that the transplants really work before we put them in.
like it's like so dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers as opposed to like the transplants oh like oh I don't know once you've lived here for a while you
US health delivers miracles every day, particularly when it comes to cutting edge and intensive care things like transplants , cancer immunotherapy, and gene editing.
But clearly, people have been looking at, for example, fecal transplants to try and see if they can replace
is a big problem, obviously, in transplant cases, not just lung transplants but across the board.
the technical surgical expertise, incredibly high standards of medicine, and the money to offer its citizens heart transplants ,