Arizona womans 3-year wait for an intestine shows the US organ transplant systems complexity
A car crash destroyed Katherine Screws’ small intestine, leaving her unable to eat, dependent on IV nutrition and often too sick to get out of bed. But the Phoenix woman clung to her hospital’s prediction that she could get an intestine transplant in about six months. That was way off. She wouldn’t get one until three years after the crash. It could have been longer if not for an unusual meeting with an organ procurement organization, or OPO, that taught the frustrated Screws how vary in...
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