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As of Friday morning, actress Anne Heche is in a coma after suffering a “severe” brain injury and is “not expected to survive,” the actress’ rep told Fox News Thursday night. I told digital.
The rep added that Heche’s wish had always been to be an organ donor, and that “she’s been on life support to determine if there is an organ donor available.” [organs] It is viable. “
The actress is 53 years old.
She will remain on the ventilator to determine if she can donate an organ, if she wishes.
Anne Heche ‘not expected to survive’ after fiery crash, rep says
“Thank you to everyone who prayed for Ann’s recovery, and to the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses who cared for Ann at the Grossman-Byrne Center at West Hills Hospital.” continued the statement.
As Fox News Digital reported Thursday night, the statement was made on behalf of Heche’s friends and family.
A rep for Heche also said on Thursday that the actress has not regained consciousness since shortly after the car accident that occurred last Friday.
The National Organ Sharing Network (UNOS) says 105,821 Americans are currently in need of an organ transplant.
According to the organization, more than 24,000 transplants have already been performed in the first six months of 2022 alone.
In 2021, organ transplants will reach record levels, surpassing 40,000 for the first time ever.
This also included a record number of kidney, heart and liver transplants, UNOS reports.
Many organs and tissues can be transplanted.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, these include kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung, intestine, cornea, skin, bone, bone marrow, heart valves, connective tissue, middle ear, and vascularized composite allografts.
Organ matching and assignment is a careful and careful process to ensure that the organ is best matched to its recipient.
Also, as Reuters recently reported, 33 women in the United States underwent uterine transplants between 2016 and 2021, and as of July 2022, 19 of them, or 58%, had a total of 21. She gave birth to a baby, researchers tell JAMA Surgery.
“Uterine transplantation should be considered a clinical reality in the United States,” the researchers wrote.
Organ transplants reach record levels in 2021
In 74% of these recipients, the uterus was still functioning one year after transplantation, says the same outlet.
According to UNOS, organ matching and assignment is a careful and careful process to ensure that the organ is best matched to its recipient.
Medical professionals consider the type of blood and tissue, the size of the organ, the waiting time for transplantation, and the distance between the donor and recipient in terms of matching criteria.
In special cases, other criteria include medical urgency, immune system fitness, and whether the recipient is a child or an adult.
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Also, New York researchers recently transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people. As AP noted last month, it’s the latest in a series of developments in a long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.
Brie Stimson and Julia Musto of Fox News Digital contributed reporting for this article.