NYC Hospital Resumes Liver Transplants

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NYC Hospital Resumes Liver Transplants

Jan 15, 7:34 PM (ET)

By VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK (AP) - The Mount Sinai Hospital - one of the world's top live-donor

liver transplant centers - has resumed transplants between adults two years

after the death of a man who gave part of his liver to his brother, a

hospital spokesman said Thursday.

This week, a 66-year-old woman received part of her daughter's liver.

The patient, Therese Lee Mallon of Mahopac, N.Y., was battling liver cancer

and was in urgent need of a transplant, which was performed Wednesday. Since

no cadaver donor was immediately available, her 41-year-old daughter, Rose

Anne Mallon, offered part of her organ.

Mount Sinai had voluntarily suspended its adult-to-adult liver donation

program in January 2002, after the death of Hurewitz, a 57-year-old

Albany Times-Union reporter who succumbed to a post-surgical infection. He

was the first living liver donor to die at the hospital.

State health officials said Hurewitz had received " woefully inadequate "

care. The state found other lapses, including a first-year surgical resident

left alone with 34 patients in the transplant unit, and fined Mount Sinai

the maximum $48,000 on 18 violations.

While state health officials reviewed the case and other adult-to-adult

transplant procedures, the hospital continued its adult-to-child live-donor

liver transplants.

Bill Van Slyke, a spokesman for the state Department of Health, said

Thursday that the hospital has corrected the problems. " We have confidence

that they're providing excellent care, " he said.

Since 1988, Mount Sinai physicians have performed more than 2,300 liver

transplants, including more than 180 involving living donors.

[Guest guest]

NYC Hospital Resumes Liver Transplants

Jan 15, 7:34 PM (ET)

By VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK (AP) - The Mount Sinai Hospital - one of the world's top live-donor

liver transplant centers - has resumed transplants between adults two years

after the death of a man who gave part of his liver to his brother, a

hospital spokesman said Thursday.

This week, a 66-year-old woman received part of her daughter's liver.

The patient, Therese Lee Mallon of Mahopac, N.Y., was battling liver cancer

and was in urgent need of a transplant, which was performed Wednesday. Since

no cadaver donor was immediately available, her 41-year-old daughter, Rose

Anne Mallon, offered part of her organ.

Mount Sinai had voluntarily suspended its adult-to-adult liver donation

program in January 2002, after the death of Hurewitz, a 57-year-old

Albany Times-Union reporter who succumbed to a post-surgical infection. He

was the first living liver donor to die at the hospital.

State health officials said Hurewitz had received " woefully inadequate "

care. The state found other lapses, including a first-year surgical resident

left alone with 34 patients in the transplant unit, and fined Mount Sinai

the maximum $48,000 on 18 violations.

While state health officials reviewed the case and other adult-to-adult

transplant procedures, the hospital continued its adult-to-child live-donor

liver transplants.

Bill Van Slyke, a spokesman for the state Department of Health, said

Thursday that the hospital has corrected the problems. " We have confidence

that they're providing excellent care, " he said.

Since 1988, Mount Sinai physicians have performed more than 2,300 liver

transplants, including more than 180 involving living donors.

[Guest guest]

NYC Hospital Resumes Liver Transplants

Jan 15, 7:34 PM (ET)

By VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK (AP) - The Mount Sinai Hospital - one of the world's top live-donor

liver transplant centers - has resumed transplants between adults two years

after the death of a man who gave part of his liver to his brother, a

hospital spokesman said Thursday.

This week, a 66-year-old woman received part of her daughter's liver.

The patient, Therese Lee Mallon of Mahopac, N.Y., was battling liver cancer

and was in urgent need of a transplant, which was performed Wednesday. Since

no cadaver donor was immediately available, her 41-year-old daughter, Rose

Anne Mallon, offered part of her organ.

Mount Sinai had voluntarily suspended its adult-to-adult liver donation

program in January 2002, after the death of Hurewitz, a 57-year-old

Albany Times-Union reporter who succumbed to a post-surgical infection. He

was the first living liver donor to die at the hospital.

State health officials said Hurewitz had received " woefully inadequate "

care. The state found other lapses, including a first-year surgical resident

left alone with 34 patients in the transplant unit, and fined Mount Sinai

the maximum $48,000 on 18 violations.

While state health officials reviewed the case and other adult-to-adult

transplant procedures, the hospital continued its adult-to-child live-donor

liver transplants.

Bill Van Slyke, a spokesman for the state Department of Health, said

Thursday that the hospital has corrected the problems. " We have confidence

that they're providing excellent care, " he said.

Since 1988, Mount Sinai physicians have performed more than 2,300 liver

transplants, including more than 180 involving living donors.

[Guest guest]

NYC Hospital Resumes Liver Transplants

Jan 15, 7:34 PM (ET)

By VERENA DOBNIK

NEW YORK (AP) - The Mount Sinai Hospital - one of the world's top live-donor

liver transplant centers - has resumed transplants between adults two years

after the death of a man who gave part of his liver to his brother, a

hospital spokesman said Thursday.

This week, a 66-year-old woman received part of her daughter's liver.

The patient, Therese Lee Mallon of Mahopac, N.Y., was battling liver cancer

and was in urgent need of a transplant, which was performed Wednesday. Since

no cadaver donor was immediately available, her 41-year-old daughter, Rose

Anne Mallon, offered part of her organ.

Mount Sinai had voluntarily suspended its adult-to-adult liver donation

program in January 2002, after the death of Hurewitz, a 57-year-old

Albany Times-Union reporter who succumbed to a post-surgical infection. He

was the first living liver donor to die at the hospital.

State health officials said Hurewitz had received " woefully inadequate "

care. The state found other lapses, including a first-year surgical resident

left alone with 34 patients in the transplant unit, and fined Mount Sinai

the maximum $48,000 on 18 violations.

While state health officials reviewed the case and other adult-to-adult

transplant procedures, the hospital continued its adult-to-child live-donor

liver transplants.

Bill Van Slyke, a spokesman for the state Department of Health, said

Thursday that the hospital has corrected the problems. " We have confidence

that they're providing excellent care, " he said.

Since 1988, Mount Sinai physicians have performed more than 2,300 liver

transplants, including more than 180 involving living donors.