#transplant

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate. ↗

— Loretta Ellsworth

#death #life #loss #relationships #transplant

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. ↗

— Adam Ant

#complex #heart #how #learned #like

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#based #bias #cultural #culture #except

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#believe #get #high #how #i

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. ↗

— Joe Murray

#back #couple #developing #dogs #had

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis. ↗

— Joe Murray

#i #more #never #personally #seen

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. ↗

— Joe Murray

#immediately #improvement #kidney #patient #status

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#could #demonstration #dramatic #immediately #improvement

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#another #before #believe #biggest #biggest thing