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Pastimes : I NEED To Sell a KIDNEY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (564)	6/11/2005 1:35:02 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 600

Woman Who Found Donor on Web Has Surgery By KIM NGUYEN Jun 10, 8:56 PM EDT 1010wins.com DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado woman who found a kidney donor on the Internet underwent transplant surgery at a Chicago hospital Friday, the ninth organ donation arranged by one Web site, a spokesman said. The surgery, which began at midday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was completed by the afternoon, said Robert Volosevich Jr., a spokesman for MatchingDonors.com. The recipient, 37-year-old Karen Traxler of Livermore, was suffering from congenital kidney failure and had been on the United Network for Organ Sharing waiting list for years, the Web site said. Joe Harpring, Traxler's husband, said that the operation was a success and that she was resting comfortably. He said he didn't know when she will be returning to Colorado. Hospital spokeswoman Kelly Sullivan said it was the first time Northwestern had performed a transplant operation knowing it was arranged online. She declined to comment on Friday's operation. Volosevich said the other surgeries have taken place around the country but could not specify where due to patient privacy. UNOS is a nonprofit group with a government contract that allocates organs donated from the dead and has opposed the use of sites like MatchingDonors.com. Robert A. Metzger, the group's president, released a memo on Jan. 12 stating the group has formed an ad hoc committee to investigate issues surrounding public solicitation for organ donations. More that 87,000 people are awaiting organ transplants, and more than 6,000 die each year while on the list. "It is important to re-examine what types of living donor/candidate relationships are acceptable in our changing society," Metzger wrote. "Living donation is an active issue for us because it is increasing and people are putting themselves on Web sties and classified ads," said UNOS spokeswoman Annie Moore. "We're concerned with living donation in that people aren't informed of the risks." Volosevich said Traxler met her donor, Susan Buonsante of the Denver suburb of Aurora, after she read about Bob Hickey, believed to be the first person to receive an organ from a donor he found on the Internet. Hickey, of Edwards, had a kidney transplant at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver in October after meeting his donor, Rob Smitty of Chattanooga, Tenn., on MatchingDonors.com. Doctors delayed the surgery for a day to ensure Smitty was not profiting from the operation, a legal and ethical violation. He later spent five days in jail for failing to pay child support. --- On the Net: United Network for Organ Sharing: unos.org MatchingDonors: matchingdonors.com