CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Donor’s Organs Aid 6 Patients

A young man who died in San Francisco over the weekend gave six people a chance to live because he served as donor of seven separate major organs. Medical officials said the man, whose name, age and cause of death were not released, donated the following organs to patients in desperate need: His heart went to a person suffering from terminal cardiac disease, and one of his kidneys aided a patient with renal disease. His other kidney and his pancreas went to a patient with diabetes and renal failure. The man’s liver went to a patient whose own liver was no longer able to cleanse toxic wastes from the blood. One of his lungs helped a woman who had been awaiting a transplant for a year; the other lung went to a woman who had spent five years with a lethal lung disease. The lung transplants were performed at Stanford University Hospital, while the other organs were transplanted into four patients at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco.