Organ transplants plummeted as the coronavirus spread. Doctors in the U.S. and France cut way back on the procedures to avoid putting living donors at risk.
Organ transplants plummeted as the coronavirus swept through communities, with surgeons wary of endangering living donors and unable to retrieve possibly usable organs from the dead. Even when doctors were willing and able, hospitals dealing with COVID-19 patients were sometimes too full to accommodate them., researchers reported Monday in the journal Lancet.United Network for Organ Sharing
, which runs the U.S. transplant system. There were 151 living donor transplants in the U.S. in the second week of March when a pandemic was declared. By the week of April 5, there were only 16 such transplants, according to UNOS. It’s too soon to know how many people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant may die not from COVID-19 infection but because the pandemic blocked their chance at a new organ.Advertisement
Living donations might be rescheduled, but missed organs from a deceased donor are lost opportunities, wrote the study team led byGet our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions.More recent counts by UNOS show that transplants started inching back in late April, with U.S. hospitals trying to decide how to safely ramp up., a transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on the Lancet study.
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