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After livers, cash to UCLA
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA powerful Japanese gang boss who received a liver transplant at UCLA Medical Center donated $100,000 to the Westwood hospital shortly after the surgery, The Times has learned. A plaque dated November 2001 at the entryway to a seventh-floor surgery...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Chuck Grassley, Lawyers, Society
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Waiting for a liver transplant, she tries to reclaim the rhythm of her life
Special to The TimesWHEN you're lying in bed and can't keep food down, muscle metabolizes first. Dr. Zhaoping Li, my UCLA clinical nutritionist, says the rate is two to three pounds of muscle wasted for every pound of fat. Bug-eyed and big-bellied with fluid after four...Tags: Aerobics, Hospitals and Clinics, Muscle, University of California, Los Angeles, Liver
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San Diego hospital suspends heart transplants
Times Staff WritersUC San Diego Medical Center announced Friday that it was voluntarily shutting its heart transplant program — at least temporarily — amid a federal review of transplant centers that fall below performance standards. "It is a very difficult...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lungs and Airways, Medicare, Heart Transplants, Medical Services
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Transplant monitor lax in oversight
Times Staff WritersThe little-known organization that oversees the nation's organ transplant system often fails to detect or decisively fix problems at derelict hospitals — even when patients are dying at excessive rates, a Times investigation has found. When it does...Tags: Judges, Cleveland Clinic, Justice System, Regional Authority, University of California, Los Angeles
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Kaiser Halts Kidney Venture
Times Staff WritersKaiser Permanente announced Friday that it was indefinitely suspending its kidney transplant program in Northern California after revelations that it had endangered hundreds of patients. "I think, quite frankly, they searched their souls and they decided...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Death, Medical Services, Surgery, University of California
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Organs Refused While Patients Die
Times Staff WritersOver the last two years, more than 30 people died awaiting liver transplants at UCI Medical Center in Orange as the hospital turned down scores of organs that might have saved them, according to a federal report. More than 100 UCI patients still are...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Death, University of California, Irvine, Censorship, Surgery
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Hospital Halts Organ Program
Times Staff WriterSt. Vincent Medical Center, one of the largest organ transplantation centers in the state, has suspended its liver program after discovering that its doctors improperly arranged for a transplant to a Saudi national using an organ that should have gone...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Mickey Mantle, Lawyers, Justice System
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Hospital Halts Liver Transplant Program
Times Staff WritersUCI Medical Center said late Thursday that it would stop performing liver transplants, hours after the federal government stripped the program's certification and said the hospital was imperiling patients' prospects for survival. The decision came the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare, Regional Authority, University of California, Los Angeles, Death
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Deception Behind Liver-Transplant Switch Proved to Be Fatal
Times Staff WritersIn January 2003, after more than two years on a waiting list for a liver transplant, Saad Al-Harthi was finally considered sick enough to rank near the top. If a donated organ became available, he would have only a few hours to get to St. Vincent Medical...Tags: Cancer, Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Lawyers, Justice System
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Congressman Expands Probe Into Organ Transplant Centers
Times Staff WriterA prominent U.S. senator is broadening his investigation into problems at organ transplant centers around the nation, asking why authorities failed to detect problems in the liver program at UCI Medical Center. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare, Liver, Health, Death
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4 more California transplant programs under scrutiny
Times Staff WritersThe woes of the state's transplant centers continue to mount, as a national regulator has found problems in four more programs, confidential records show. Scrutiny of these programs — some of which face sanctions — follows the public...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Basketball, Entertainment, University of California, Los Angeles
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Death by Geography
Times Staff WriterIn the world of organ transplantation, location is everything. After waiting more than a decade for a liver, Jonathan Van Vlack was deteriorating. His gut swelled with fluid, and toxins accumulating in his blood made him forget his own name. Still, he...Tags: Stanford University, Medical Procedures and Tests, University of California, Los Angeles, Assault, Medical Services
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