Many transplant patients at Memorial Hermann Hospital are looking into different options at local hospitals after its transplant program was abruptly shut down. Officials are investigating allegations that Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr. was secretly altering transplant databases, intending to make some of his patients ineligible for liver transplants.
– Many transplant patients at Memorial Hermann Hospital are looking into different options at local hospitals after its transplant program was abruptly shut down .
Mike Dimas, of Dallas, has been waiting on the kidney transplant list for over seven years and shared his thoughts after transplant patients were left in limbo on when the program will be open again. “After a series of health issues that I had, I was no longer a candidate for peritoneal dialysis and I went to the more traditional form of dialysis that most people, I think are familiar with the hemodialysis, where I actually go into the clinic,” Dimas said.Even with a universal blood type -- Dimas said he’s still been waiting and the requirements to donate a kidney is not as easy as one would think.
“If that first person ends up not being a viable candidate, then they go to the next person and then maybe the next person. To make sure that, that organ is not lost,” he said. “Because everything is so meticulous in the way that they go through the process, how was how was he able to do that? Dimas asked. “I’d be interested to see exactly what comes of it.
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