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Donor sparks chain of kidney transplants
Forum reporter Kristen Daum writes: "One person’s desire to save a stranger’s life sparked a chain of surgeries involving 10 individuals and five kidney transplants at regional hospit...
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Organ donation awareness: Alexa’s Hope part of team taking part in Fargo Marathon

FARGO — Monica and Loren Kersting know the importance of organ donation. Their daughter, Alexa, died seven years ago while waiting for a lung transplant. “We know that the only solution for the shortage is to get people to become organ donors,” Monica said. “We know that, that’s really the answer.”

By By Eric Peterson, Forum Communications Co. , May 20, 2011

Former Mary president has 2nd kidney transplant

Former University of Mary President Sister Thomas Welder has undergone a second kidney transplant.

April 06, 2011

Doctors testing beating hearts in transplant

Doctors testing beating hearts in transplant LOS ANGELES — Andrea Ybarra’s donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time she awoke from the grogginess of her surgery. Lub-dub. Lub-dub. Lub-dub. In fact, it was warm and pumping even before doctors transplanted it.

By By Alicia Chang, The Associated Press , December 07, 2010

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Anonymous donor sparks kidney-transplant chain

One person’s desire to save a stranger’s life sparked a chain of surgeries involving 10 individuals and five kidney transplants at regional hospitals in less than a week. The chain of life-saving surgeries came through a regional “kidney swap” effort that Sanford Medical Center in Fargo and Abbott Northwestern Hospital and University of Minnesota Medical Center at Fairview, both in Minneapolis, are involved in.

By By Kristen M. Daum, Forum Communications Co. , July 23, 2010

Bighorn sheep to be transplanted

North Dakota wildlife officials plan to capture and move as many as 15 bighorn sheep in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Game and Fish biologist Brett Wiedmann said the goal is to help stem disease among the growing herd and reduce crashes involving sheep and vehicles on U.S. Highway 85.

February 09, 2010

Nurses help patients, donors decide on kidney transplants

Nurses help patients, donors decide on kidney transplants It’s two weeks before a huge domino kidney exchange, and a worried patient is calling Georgetown University Hospital. Is it really OK that she’s lined up to get a kidney from someone two decades older? Meet the matchmakers, the nurses who help patients and donors alike make the life-altering decision to go forward with a transplant or not.

By By LauranNeergaard, The Associated Press , December 15, 2009

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Ohio man with heart transplant record dies

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who lived the longest on one transplanted heart has died at age 51.

August 11, 2009

Jamestown teenager's recovery continues

A Jamestown teenager continues to recover from a kidney transplant she had in March. Emily Gunderson, 17, received a kidney from her father, Troy, on March 18 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Since then, Emily has had new challenges, according to her father and a journal the family has been keeping the Caring Bridge Web site.

By By Sun Staff , May 21, 2009

Deitz receives liver transplant

One woman awaiting a liver transplant received one last week. Jamie Deitz, who lives in Elgin, N.D., was diagnosed with a liver disorder called glycogen storage disease when she was 7 months old. The disease means her body can’t process glucose normally so she has to drink cornstarch supplements each day and undergo the tube-feeding regimen each night to prevent hypoglycemia.

By By Sun Staff , April 01, 2009

Kidney transplant

Kidney transplant Emily Gunderson and her family left for Rochester, Minn., Sunday and this time Emily is hoping her kidney transplant at Mayo Clinic will actually happen.

March 09, 2009

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Transplant patient closer to surgery

One woman awaiting a liver transplant is one step closer to that event. Jamie Deitz, Elgin, N.D., was diagnosed with a liver disorder called glycogen storage disease when she was 7 months old. The disease means her body can’t process glucose normally so she has to drink cornstarch supplements each day and undergo the tube-feeding regimen each night to prevent hypoglycemia.

January 22, 2009

Jamestown girl looks forward to transplant

Into hour three of her dialysis Wednesday, 16-year-old Emily Gunderson yawned as the machine cleaned her blood and returned it to her body. She’s looking forward to January and a kidney transplant to end the thrice-weekly dialysis at Jamestown Hospital. Emily apologized for yawning, but the three hours of dialysis, which cleans her blood of toxins and wastes, makes her tired. Despite more than two years of dealing with her kidney disease and all its ramifications, she remains happy and upbeat.

October 30, 2008

New therapy helps some get new kidneys

Nearly one in three patients who need a kidney transplant may never get one because their bodies are abnormally primed to attack a donated organ.

By Lauran Neergaard , October 14, 2008

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Elgin woman needs liver transplant to fight illness

Jamie Deitz can’t fit all that she needs during a two- or three-hour flight into a carry-on bag. But carry-ons are likely the least of her problems. Deitz, who said she’d like to travel once her health allows, has to pack tubes, monitors, canisters of food supplements and other medical equipment — and she needs them every couple hours.

September 25, 2008

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